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“Dear PoPville,
Though i grew up getting crabs in Maryland my entire life I have no idea where to get crabs around DC or even how much a bushel costs.. I’m trying to throw a cookout since I haven’t had my yearly crab feast. Just wondering where is the best place to go to get some bushels of crabs?”
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Here are the previous best/let’s do this lists for – Carryouts, best Thai, best liquor stores, best Ramen, best Bars, best Indian and Pakistani, best Italian/Pizza/Deli, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin, best burgers/fries, best bakery/bagels, best Gyms, best Ethiopian , best Sushi, best bookstores, best movie theaters, best sports bars, and best barbers and hair salons.
Today’s query is a reader request. With the coming closure of Masa 14 in August – where are your favorite brunch spots these days!
Ed. Note: This was also a reader requested query back in 2013 – you can see those recs here.
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“Dear PoPville,
There have been some recent RRRRs in which people have asked about others’ experiences with online dating platforms… any chance you might be willing to do a PoPville thread on the topic?”
Here are the previous best/let’s do this lists for – Carryouts, best Thai, best liquor stores, best Ramen, best Bars, best Indian and Pakistani, best Italian/Pizza/Deli, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin, best burgers/fries, best bakery/bagels, best Gyms, best Ethiopian , best Sushi, best bookstores, best movie theaters, and best sports bars.
This question used to come up regularly every year or so but it’s been a minute. Where’s your go to spot?
2411 18th Street, NW
Here are the previous best/let’s do this lists for – Carryouts, best Thai, best liquor stores, best Ramen, best Bars, best Indian and Pakistani, best Italian/Pizza/Deli, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin, best burgers/fries, best bakery/bagels, best Gyms, best Ethiopian , best Sushi, best bookstores, and best movie theaters.
Here’s another area that has changed pretty drastically over the years. What are your favorite sports these days? Anyone hit the new(ish) Game (above) in Adams Morgan? The new Walters down in Navy Yard? Or does it depend on the sport? Anyway, share some of your favorite spots – I’ll be following this one closely. Thanks!
807 V Street, NW
Here are the previous best/let’s do this lists for – Carryouts, best Thai, best liquor stores, best Ramen, best Bars, best Indian and Pakistani, best Italian/Pizza/Deli, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin, best burgers/fries, best bakery/bagels, best Gyms, best Ethiopian , best Sushi and best bookstores.
So are we going old school Uptown or new school Landmark? Where’s your favorite theater in town these days? We could do a two parter – one for popular films and one for independent/foreign films?
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Here are the previous best/let’s do this lists for – Carryouts, best Thai, best liquor stores, best Ramen, best Bars, best Indian and Pakistani, best Italian/Pizza/Deli, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin, best burgers/fries, best bakery/bagels, best Gyms, Ethiopian and best Sushi.
OK so who do we have besides Kramerbooks? Politics & Prose (please say which location if that’s your pick), Capitol Hill Books, Loyalty (formerly Upshur Street Books), Amazon brick and mortar, Walls of Books, Idle Time books, East City Bookshop, Second Story Books, Solid State Books, Bridge Street Books, Potter’s House, Used Books (Georgetown), Duende District, Carpe Librum pop ups, Mahogany Books, The Lantern – who am I missing? And who’s your favorite?
6th and H Street, NW
Here are the previous best/let’s do this lists – Carryouts, best Thai, best liquor stores, best Ramen, best Bars, best Indian and Pakistani, best Italian/Pizza/Deli, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin, best burgers/fries, best bakery/bagels, best gyms and best Ethiopian.
Will be interesting to see how this list evolves from 2013. Where are your favorite sushi spots today?
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“Dear PoPville,
I’m looking for creative and meaningful ways to volunteer my time in DC. Do you have any suggestions?”
Another reader passes on from Sunday Suppers:
“Thank you to everyone who has volunteered. We need help Sunday, May 26th (Memorial Day weekend) providing and/or serving a meal for 60 people. Dinner is 6 to 7pm every Sunday at Franklin Square.
Please email [email protected]. More info here.”
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Ed. Note: After our best burger talk last month I got word of a mythical burger quest by a group of friends and lo and behold here it is.
The gents write:
“Back in 2017 a group of 10 nerds, who also happened to be friends, decided to embark on an epic foodie quest to try the best burgers of DC. Our goal was simple: systematically and rigorously pinpoint the tastiest burger in and around the District. And we were serious. We even bought the domain to BrosWhoBurger.com (and then never did anything with it).
Our starting point was a list of 8 restaurants based on the existing “Best of” lists and hearsay. Over the next two years, this group of 8 ballooned to a whopping 18 burger joints. We still haven’t gone everywhere we have wanted to, but hope to in the years to come.
So how did we approach this journey? Each time we picked a new place, we tried to maximize how many people could join. Usually we got 4-7 of us, but sometimes as low as 2, other times we had as many as 9 of us.
We didn’t have pre-defined criteria for the ratings, but there were some elements we often found ourselves discussing; bun composition and texture, structural integrity, meat taste and juiciness, and overall flavor were key pieces to our rating. We did not factor cost into the equation.
With some minor exceptions, we all ordered the same burger at each place. When we finished, we shared our ratings directly with a designated data collector in order to minimize bias and plopped the ratings into a Google sheet.
NOW, without further ado, our ratings. With each we tried to add a description. Below these are our superlatives. (more…)