Tag Archives: Virginia
The great Arlington chicken taste-off
I’ve heard it called Peruvian chicken, roasted chicken or chicken ala brasa. However you name it, it’s delicious. That spit-roasted chicken with spiced, crispy skin is served with standard potato or yucca fries. And maybe a salad of iceburg lettuce too, if you are lucky. Cooked chickens are hacked into quarters — as you watch [...]
Posted in DC Fringes, Virginia Also tagged ala brasa, Anthony Bourdain, Arlington, chicken, Crisp and Juicy, El Pollo Rico, No Reservations, Northern Virinia, Peruvian, Super Pollo, The Chicken Place 2 Comments
Bourdain does Nothern Va.
Author and chef Anthony Bourdain’s travel show No Reservations was the inspiration for this blog. So, it’s no small event when the show features D.C. In the episode Bourdain paints this capital as a city of “haves and have not.” And in We’re Out of Here style, Bourdain hits up the dining places of the [...]
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Avoiding antiques in Frederickburg, Va.
Fredericksburg is sweet, in the way that makes for boring travel writing. It’s the type of town you’d visit with your grandmother or mother-in-law for some inter-generational girls day out. Its picturesque streets are lined with antique shops, each storefront currently decked out with tasteful white lights and mini Christmas trees. It’s charming — in [...]
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Bored and baffled by Alexandria’s Freemasons