Author: City Walker

10 New Bars and Restaurants in DC to Try Now

Alfie’s 3301 Georgia Ave., NW Chef Alex McCoy’s eclectic Thai restaurant takes cues from his travels across Southeast Asia, evidenced on the menu—comforting khao soi curry noodles and sour sausage-fried rice share space with egg-topped Aussie burgers and Singapore sling cocktails. Reservations are taken at the funky, 39-seat space in Park View, but get there quick—McCoy may move […]

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In Search of New Orleans’ Vietnamese Soul

On a recent Thursday morning, I walked into Magasin Kitchen, a two-month-old restaurant in New Orleans’ Central Business District. It was ten minutes before noon, but even so, each of the 39 seats was occupied. On nearly every table sat large white bowls filled with golden broth, billowing aromatic steam. Any of a dozen restaurants […]

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ApricotStone Brings Armenian to Northern Liberties

Just like that, Northern Liberties gets a new restaurant in ApricotStone, located at 1040 North 2nd Street, Suite 601, next to One Shot Cafe. The Mediterranean and Armenian restaurant by Ara (Front of House) and chef Fimy Ishkhanian took over the space once home to The Sweet Spot, a short-lived cafe on Liberties Walk. Syrian-born […]

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Light Yard at The Yards Park kick off on Saturday, February 20 from 7pm to 10pm

Light Themed Art Installation at The Yards: Two-Week-Long Installation Melding Light, Sculpture and Music to Create Wonder Light Yards: the innovative art installation spanning two weeks and three weekends at The Yards Park will kick off on Saturday, February 20 from 7pm to 10pm with a large-scale projection mapping visual display set to the beat […]

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baggataway tavern in Conshohocken PA

Baggataway Tavern – Local watering hole with a warm ambiance

Local watering hole with a warm ambiance & a deck serves American-style dinners & bar food. It only takes a few minutes of sitting at the bar before you realize that you’re in the local neighborhood watering hole. Reminiscent of Mt. Airy’s classic McMenamin’s Tavern, you can see why the people of West Conshohocken, PA […]

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Acqua Al 2 bring fresh Italian food to DC

I’ll admit from the start that I am a bit biased in my review here.  For some time now I have been lamenting the Hill’s lack of a good Italian restaurant that doesn’t suffer from the Olive Garden-tendency to think that pasta should be hidden in large mounds of cream-based sauces and then topped with […]

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The Best Bars in Washington DC

Essential Whiskey Bars around DC

To say D.C. is a whiskey town is putting it mildly. Even the most unassuming of bars has to offer at least a middling selection of bourbon and rye. The city also excels at bars with a particular whiskey niche, whether it be Irish blends or rare Japanese whiskeys. Here are several whiskey destinations that […]

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Knead & Co, Grand Central Market

The 30 Hottest Restaurants in LA Right Now, February 2016

More often than not, tipsters, readers, friends, and family of Eater have one question: Where should I eat right now? Restaurant obsessives want to know what’s new, what’s hot, which favorite chef just launched a sophomore effort. And while the Eater 38 is a crucial resource covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, it is not a […]

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Declaration Is DC’s New Politically-Themed Restaurant

The Shaw eatery opens with pizzas fashioned after the original colonies. The same restaurateur who brought us presidentially-themed eateries Lincoln and Teddy & the Bully Bar has created another edible ode to American politics: Declaration, now open in Shaw. The 52-seat restaurant from Alan Popovsky pays homage to the founding fathers with thin-crust pizzas (why not?), which represent the 13 colonies that […]

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Don’t Call This New Basement Bar a Speakeasy

When The Armory opens below Rebellion on Feb. 17, it aims to be more sophisticated than its wing-slinging, bourbon-guzzling parent bar upstairs. But despite its steep-stair basement entrance on 18th Street NW, bearded beverage director, and dramatic metal door, the owner wants to strike a buzzword from the conversation: “I don’t want to use the term ‘speakeasy,’ because we’re […]

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