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This gorgeous and popular Lafayette Square restaurant is the perfect spot for dinner party sure to please everyone -- or a intimate dinner date for two. The... More »
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Once again we were scrambling to find a place to eat. Our intended destination was like something out of an Edward Hopper painting: The chef, in kitchen whites and striped apron, stood outside the restaurant's entrance on a Friday evening, gazing forlornly up and down one of the city's busier avenues.
"Nope," I told my wife. "I can't do it. Not tonight."
"Oh, please...
Arrgh, budding sailors, go ahead and find Barbados on a map. It's right near Guatemala, ain't it? No, it's sandwiched between Trinidad and Toboggan. I thought it shared an island with Jamaica. No, that's Haiti. OK, wait. Let me think. It's due south of Cuba; it's the third leg of the Bermuda Triangle. Countless Navy brethren have been lost there, and they roam the Barbadian shores drinking...
Ock-un-tosh-un. Ockuntoshun. Auchentoshan. Sounds German, but it's actually Gaelic and was born in 1823 in Glasgow, Scotland, on the soulful river Clyde. Translated, it means "corner of the field," which sounds about right, if the corner of the field is shady, damp, green and on the banks of a twittering stream. It's a single-malt Scotch and will set you back $10.50 per generous snifter at...
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