You'll find it here, in html version, and it has more individual revisions than ever before. The list of my favorite places, for instance, is about half new. The blog version of the guide you'll find here and it offers updates on a more or less real time basis, while the html version is revised once a year or so. The html version is useful if you want to print the whole thing out. Here's one of the new reviews:
Ray’s Hell-Burger, 1713 Wilson Blvd.,Arlington, 703-841-0001, open for lunch
only on weekends, I believe 5 p.m. dinner on weekdays. All they have is hamburgers and
they don’t even have a side of French fries (you can get potato chips or potato
salad). It’s the best hamburger around by an order of magnitude. Yes, it is
worth paying a $4 or $5 supplement for the specialty cheeses on the
cheeseburger. I like the Epoisses best but the Amish cheddar is first-rate for
traditionalists. The quality of the burger and the cheese here really just
stunned me. By 12:15 on a Saturday the place is already chaos but somehow it
seems to work. Order your burger at the counter and then be prepared to stand at
a table (of sorts) and eat it. Not a place to sit and chat but who needs
social pleasantries when the burger is so good?
Awesome! If you are in the Silver Spring area, try Ghar-E-Kabab, which has truly excellent Indian and Nepalese food (I find it much superior to the Langley Park places). Also wrt Mandalay: send people there on Thursdays when they have a cocunut rice and chicken special which is truly special. I felt regret last week when the person ahead of me took out 2 Thursday specials while I had stuck to the variety mantra.
So far, I have found UrbanSpoon is only good for the shake of it. It is very nice to see a restaurant popping out after a shake. The sounds and rolling bars make the experience like watching Baby Einstein – again, very exciting. But the application is not that useful, or perhaps, I have not figured out a way to make it more user-friendly.
Ray’s has the best burgers. There is no doubt about it. But I do miss the greasy fries and the beer in paper cups at Five Guys.
Will some enterprising local put this on Google Maps?
This is great:
Remember, if you don’t like these, you probably didn’t follow my advice for what to order. Or you are to blame in some other manner, I don’t know which one, there are many possibilities. The most likely are that you simply don’t have very good taste, or perhaps you are not very bright. Too bad.
But would it be asking too much to suggest underlining the restaurant names to speed up visual parsing?
Also I second the suggestion that somebody (enterprising!) should put this on google maps.
Awesome. I put TWO start tags instead of one open and one close. Now we are done.
Where’s the best doener kebab in Arlington/Alexandria? Such a long list of good food that I cant afford. Is this city completely lacking street meat?
Jae Chap? Do you mean Chap Jae?
Hey Odograph–
The Chowhound boards for LA/OC definitely have a large enough group to recognize and critique authentic (regional) Chinese food. Lots and lots of posts on San Gabriel Valley, and to a lessor extent Westminster area of OC for Vietnamese.
But if you want authentic Chinese, given that you’re in OC, San Gabriel Valley is the place to go and chowhound is very helpful.
I can’t comment on anything but pizza. 2Amys is the best and greatly outshines the Matchbox. Paradiso is much better than the Matchbox, but 2Amys is slightly better. All of these are Neapolitan pizzas; if you want New York or Chicago style, go somewhere else. I prefer Neapolitan and consider 2Amys to be the best east of Phoenix. (If you visit Phoenix, Pizzaria Bianco is the best in the nation.)
In large population areas, Yelp’s restaurant rankings are usually reliable. In less densely populated areas, not so much.
Wegmans in NoVa carries “real” Epoisses (Berthaut).
What a truly impressive list. Too bad that no living in the DC area I cannot sample it with frequency. One question – Tyler, how much do you weigh? I am not sure that I have eaten in so many restaurants in my entire life.
Look at this from another point of view: each dining place has to have a professional restaurant equipment and supplies company in order to keep the clients happy and of course in order to be able to deliver the ordered food on time.
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