There is a height restriction on the downtown
buildings, so you kind of feel like you're
on a movie set or Main St. USA in Disney.
Everything is clean and beautiful and it has
the most amazing homes and gardens.
As you may know by now, I travel mostly for the food,
drinks, and city culture. This trip was no different.
The only "touristy" things that we did were walking
around the Capital and Mall area, visiting the Botanical Gardens,
and briefly talk about going into the National Archives (the line was too long)
Other than that it was all for fun. We started off the trip with ceviche,
guacamole, and a pitcher of margaritas at this tiny Mexican place.
Dinner on Friday was at Brixton, a British pub with a heavy
Southeast Asian influence, lots of small plates and everything was
absolutely delicious. My favorite was the Black Lentil Curry.
After dinner we cabbed it over to Hogo, a tiki bar somewhat close to Brixton-
( I should tell you that I never got a handle on the layout of the city.
I felt perpetually lost-which is not typical- so everything felt
"somewhat close" or "kind of far". My apologies.)
So we get to Hogo and the first thing we see is a huge painting of Steve Zissou,
we were sold already. The drink list was fantastic and I got to indulge in an
amazing cocktail served in a gigantic pineapple. There was also a
flaming punch bowl that we saw- it looked amazing. The only thing missing
was a hawaiian pizza.
Saturday we brunched at Busboys and Poets
then meandered over to the 14th St area where
there were all kinds of fun shops and bars.
There were some great vintage shops, but I did
manage to restrain myself. Though I am still thinking
about the flapper style fringe dress I saw..
Dinner that evening was at Ethiopic, this was my
second experience with Ethiopian food and it was amazing.
The flavors are huge, and they serve this delicous fermented
bread-which is actually more of a pancake-that you use to pick
everything up. We also had some Ethiopian honey wine at the end
of the meal, which didn't taste too far off from the Mead that the
husband and I fermented awhile back. After dinner we hopped
a cab to Barmini- the cocktail offshoot of Jose Andres' Minibar.
The staff was amazing and the drinks were just phenomenal.
I got the gardener-which was gin, egg white, st germain,
cucumber, and possibly lime. So simple but exactly what I wanted.
The one kind of crazy drink that we shared was the
Cotton Candy Old Fashioned, it happened somewhat quickly so I didn't grab
a photo- but just imagine a cup filled with pink cotton candy and then
someone pouring an old fashioned over it and just watching it dissolve.
The drink was perfectly sweetened with barely a trace of the cotton candy.
Sunday we went over to Eastern Market for Brunch @
Market Lunch. This was insanely good.
On the left are the crabcakes benedict and to the right
the french toast with whipped cream and berries.
Right in the middle is the green chili cheese grits.
yeah. jackpot.
After brunch we wandered around the Mall area, went into the Botanical
Gardens-which are always amazing.
Then we finished our trip with some pizza, headed back to the hotel
to grab our bags and then the husband and I embarked on one
of the more frustrating trips to an airport. This was remedied by a Chipotle
burrito and 2 Margaritas.
All in all the trip was a success, we all agreed that we would visit again.
And next time I will eat at FarmersFishersBakers!!
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