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In response to an inquiry from dario@larry.berkeley.edu, rockwell@wam.umd.edu
Kinkead's for seafood, the carnegie deli for jewish deli, a pizza place I 
don't know, Fortune, Mr. Yung's and the Hunan Lion for Chinese, a breakfast
place in Alexandria, and Busara for Thai.

I second the seafood, Chinese and Thai recommendations, which are all 
some of my favorites.  On deli food, I don't think there are any really 
good Jewish delis in the DC area.  The Carnegie has reasonably authentic 
meats, but lousy bread; somehow it just doesn't seem like a worthy 
companion to the real Carnegie in NY.  If you *must* have Jewish deli 
food, I'd go with the Florida style place on Wisconsin past American 
University.  When I have an unavoidable craving for the New York deli 
food of my childhood, this is the best local place I've found.  On Thai, 
I agree that Busara is terrific; it also has a lovely garden.  If you 
want to eat in the suburbs, however, try Duangrat on Route 7, which is 
very good and atypically elegant for local Thai places.  Finally, if you 
go to Mr. Yung's, go for the Cantonese stuff; anything Szechuan is just 
there to appeal to currently prevailing tastes and is nothing special.  
(I try to see what the Chinese customers are eating and order that.)

One thing you didn't mention is food that you can get here but not in the 
foodies' paradise you hail from (Berkeley).  Some people find Georgia 
Brown's inauthentic, but I think it has terrific new Southern food.  For 
more old-time southern food, there's nothing like the Florida Avenue 
Grill (on Florida at about 11th Street, in a neighborhood not frequented 
by tourists), but still to daylight hours there.  Finally, some of my 
favorite crabcakes can be had at Eastern Market, a farmer's market on 
Capital Hill.  There's a stand that serves breakfast and lunch on (I 
think) Tuesday through Saturday.  It has been there forever.  Go with the 
homemade bread and enjoy.

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