between eating delicious tapas..... and like.... not..... eating delicious tapas.....
... or whatever
went to Zaytinya last night for (birthday! yes, i'm claiming it) restaurant week dinner. 5 courses of greek tapas and 1 pint of some kind of stout (sadly, they didn't serve car bombs) = i need elastic waist pants and more rich friends.
course 1=hummus, babaganoush, cucumber/tomato/pepper/onion/frito? salad, crispy eggplant fritters w/ yogurt sauce with fluffy, balloon-like pita.
course 2= weird fritters galore, of the zucchini/cheese and carrot/apricot variety.
course 3= a couple initially underdone salmons, more calimari than we could handle, and swordfish, which i was urged to try because "don't worry, its not fishy, its meaty," to which i reassured, "again, i don't eat meat."
course 4=lamb, beef, more lamb, more lamb, weird eggplant mousse puree, and more and more lamb.
and just before losing consciousness, dessert= one thing of yogurt and cherry compote + cherry gelato on top and 3 orders of "turkish delight," otherwise known as walnut ice cream, fruity jammy goo, and cookie/cracker ish that was the BOMB.
oh. ma. gah. good thing someone had a car to drive home, otherwise i was ready to climb onto a subway grate and under someone's fiberglass blanket and call it a night.
sidenote: when asked their favorite restaurant in DC, only 1 out of 4 diners could come up with an answer. with prodding, the votes went, in the non-brunch category, to Lafayette and St Ex, and in the brunch or "chicken-and-waffles" category, to Creme. an uninspired picture of dining in the district, i feel.
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