Life-Changing

The Afterglow: The Doughnut Plant

May 7, 2007

The Doughnut Plant has haunted us Gourmetros for too long. Two weeks ago, we’d had enough of hearing rave reviews, so we trucked down from SpaHa to see for ourselves whether these were indeed gifts from some benevolent yeasty/cakey doughnut god. We tried to get down there sooner, we really did, but the Plant’s schedule [...]

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The Shins will not change your life

January 31, 2007

(Or so Bob Boilen says) Farrah Olivia, however, will. We managed to sneak an 8:15 Restaurant Week dinner reservation at this brand new Alexandria restaurant. Farrah is a tiny place with simple decor – one wall is eggplant-colored with sage green trees painted on it, the other two walls are full-length windows which you can [...]

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