Vacation in Washington, D.C.!

Eating

You know that Charlaine and I are food-oriented people.    We enjoyed eating at a lot of little restaurants (I'm always amazed at the number of restuarants in cities that we visit - doesn't anybody cook for themselves?).    The first night we found a Central American restaurant that was closing, but agreed to feed us.    I think they were just starting up; they were in a not-so-good part of town, as we realized when the streetwalking prostitutes starting hanging out in front of the door (the taro root was quite tasty, though).    We ate Senate Bean Soup at the U.S. Senate cafeteria.    We also ate at a little Muslim place that was in the side of a Methodist church.    I can only guess that they paid the rent on time - the food was sure good.
We ate at the famous Sholls cafeteria, but we may have arrived just in time; after over 70 years, they are falling prey to rising rents and the fact that their constituents are dying off. You can see their appeal at www.homestead.com\sholls.99

We found this wonderful and inexpensive Italian restaurant "Il Radicchio". You know how much I like pictures of rabbits, and this place has rabbits everywhere, even in the bathrooms. I think there are three locations in D.C.; we ate at two of them. It is an excellent choice, especially if you have a hungry eighteen-year-old with you: there is an all-you-can-eat pasta option available.

Justin and I ate at Michie (pronounced "Mickey") Tavern on our way to Monticello. They kept telling us that Thomas Jefferson ate, or at least drank, here. As is the case with most everywhere in the area, there were an awful lot of eighth graders.