Alright, we took our sweet time about it, but as promised, here are the final
results from DCFUD Rates DC. Not happy with the outcomes? Then you should have voted twice.
Best Place to Be a Local
Gold:
Bardia’s New Orleans Café
Runners Up:
Murphy’s of DC
Faidley’s
Pumpernickel’s
amsterdam falafel
Florida Ave Grill
Honorable Mention:
New York City
Best Bakery to Break a Diet
Gold:
Cakelove
Runners up:
Firehook Bakery
Vaccaro’s
Marvelous Market
Patisserie Poupon
Honorable Mention:
Zaf’s awesome peanut butter cookies.
Best Coffee Shop to Tell Your Boss You’re “Telecommuting”
From
Gold:
Soho tea and Coffee
Runners Up:
Tryst
Steam
One World Café
Honorable Mention:
Camelot
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Best Place to Wear Silly Hipster Clothing
Gold:
Wonderland
Runners Up:
Soho Tea and Cofee
Mei n Yu
Sasha’s
Food For Thought
Honorable Mention:
Anywhere near the Black Cat
Prettiest Restaurant
Gold:
Any of the Downtown Fusion Trinity (Ceiba, DC Coast, Ten Penh)
Runners Up:
Palette
Zatinya
Paper Moon
Ortanique
Honorable Mention:
The Brickskellar
Best Reason to boast about of your Southern Heritage
Gold:
Lefties Barbeque
Runners Up:
Bardia’s New Orleans Café
Georgia Brown’s
Aunt Sarahs
Rockland’s
Honorable Mention:
Maine Avenue
Best Reason to boast about your non-American Heritage
Gold:
Helmud’s
Runners Up:
Pho 75
Chipotle
Lebanese Taverna
Harambe
Heritage India
Honorable Mention:
You won’t get drafted
Grooviest Waitstaff
Gold:
Brickskeller
Runners Up:
Murky Coffee
Cafe Luna
Zacks
Hamburger Marys
Honorable Mention:
Afterwords (Best service with a sneer)
Best Bathroom
Gold:
Forget it, no bathrooms can beat the ones in Tokyo. Warmed toilet seats, air
jets, water spurts, and fluffy soap!
Runners Up:
Mie N Yu
Ceiba
Zola
Honorable Mention:
Books a Million (most of the homeless population of Dupont can’t be wrong)
Best Excuse to Go to the Suburbs
Gold:
New Fortune Dim Sum
Runners Up:
Broadway Diner
Grapeseed
Joe’s Noodles
Addie’s
Roys (Gaithersburg)
The Tasting Room
Honorable Mention:
Gunpoint
Best Corporate Lunch Break
Gold:
Bread Line
Runners Up:
Les Halles
Greek Deli
Five Guys
Chinatown Express
Joy America
Honorable Mention:
You take lunch?
Best Expense Account Dinner
Gold:
Obelisk
Runners Up:
Cashion’s
C harlie Palmers
Tosca
DC Coast
Old Ebitt’s
Bombay Club
Honorable Mention:
The snack car of the Acela. The cost will be about the same.
Best Morning-After Hangover Food
Gold:
Bardia’s New Orleans Cafe
Runners Up:
Broadway Diner
American City Diner
Afterwords
Jimmy T’s
Pete’s
The Diner
Honorable Mention:
Whoever’s bed you spent the night in
Best Pretentious Yuppie Fusion Food
Gold:
Ten Penh
Runners Up:
Ceiba
Thaiphoon
XS
Honorable Mention:
The sandwiches at Marvelous Market (Duck and plum on baguette. Hell yeah)
Best Small Meal for Less than the Cost of a Metro Check
Gold:
Tie: and Amsterdam Falafel and Five Guys
Runners Up:
Pizza Mart
Julia’s Empanadas
Fado
Lexington Market
Bens Chili Bowl
York Castle
Honorable Mention:
Larry’s. You can make a meal out of ice cream, easy
5 Responses
American City Diner is still my favorite hangover food, or hangover preventative food at 2am!
I believe the ‘Helmud’ referred to here is actually The Helmand, which is Hamid Karzai’s brother’s restaurant.
“Best Small Meal for Less than the Cost of a Metro Check / Runner-Up / Fado”
Fado’s? Fad-fucking-do’s?
Is this a joke?
C’mon now. I have eaten a lot of the Fado’s menu (I like to go there for trivia night). It’s awful, and for what it is, it’s quite expensive. Entrees start around $7-8 dollars — you’ll be dropping $12-15 for a meal, in most cases. That’s not a lot, but it’s hardly competitive with Ben’s or Julia’s.
The menu features lots of “authentic” Irish dishes like, say, fajitas. Most hilarious: the copy devoted to explaining that wrap sandwiches are a longstanding gaelic tradition. The burgers are okay, the fish and chips are okay, the corned beef is okay — but nothing rises to the level of “good”. the barbeque chicken sandwich is bad, the bangers and mash are pathetic, and they’ve got these triangular potato things that resemble nothing so much as oil-soaked sponges, which you’re then supposed to dip into a cheese sauce — it’s truly horrifying. About half the menu comes out of a deep fryer, and all of it comes out of a freezer.
I’ve gotten in the habit of meeting my friends there for trivia, securing a table, then leaving to eat at one of the nearby alternatives, most of which are a cheaper and all of which are better. Within walking distance and in the cheap eats category there’s a california tortilla, a potbelly, a subway, a five guys and, if you have time to sit down, matchbox, numerous chinese joints, and a texas bbq place. Any of these is a much, much better deal than Fado.
Don’t get me wrong, I love getting drunk and losing at trivia in a faux-Irish setting as much as the next guy. But I avoid eating there as much as possible.
Tom-
Read the disclaimer- if you dont like the results you should have voted illegally more often under many different names.
I think the “wraps” you’re describing are heavily Americanized “boxties,” which are authentic Irish food. But it’s been years since I’ve seen the menu there. And the Irish breakfast, while small, is pretty tasty.