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In Article <2qgvka$jga@search01.news.aol.com>, gmon6612@aol.com (GMon6612)
wrote:
>I had lunch on 5/7 at Music City Roadhouse, 1050 30th St, NW, in Georgetown.. 
>I'd have to say that Phyllis Richman's review of the place in the 5/8 Wash Post
>is pretty accurate; that is to say, the place is great! The fried chicken was
>excellent, as were the greens.  Blackeyed peas were undercooked, not
>overcooked, as she reported in her review.  Also, it's very reasonable, with a
>bill running about $11/person (including apple cobbler for dessert).  One thing
>not mentioned in the review is that they validate parking in the building. 
>(Note:  30th St is one way and the restaurant (which is next to the C&O canal)
>must be approached from M Street, not K Street.  Have fun ! Greg.

We went there for dinner a couple weeks ago, and we were not real impressed.
Of course, they didn't have fried chicken that night - it was ribs, fried
catfish, and beef stew.  The black-eyed peas were overcooked.
P.R. was right to start off with the health angle - this is not food for
the diet-conscious, or the picky.  The dinners are truly HUGE; you leave
very very full after soup, cornbread, two vegetables and 3 entrees for
dinner (plus dessert, if you want to pay for it).  The food wasn't bad, it
just wasn't very exciting, except in its massiveness.  Catfish was crisp,
but bland.  Ribs were good, if fatty, but sauce was ordinary (Old Glory's
are much better, and Rocklands still better). I liked the greens.
Beef stew was better than Dinty Moore.

There's no menu; you get what they cooked that night - all of it.
At first we thought we'd both have to get full dinners, but when when we asked
we found that they could whip up a sandwich for my wife, who does not eat
like Jethro Clampett (I guess I did).  It was a pulled chicken sandwich, and
it was SCORCHING with pepper.   The apple cobbler for dessert was pretty good,
except that they forgot to take the paper wrapper off something (the cobbler
or the ice cream), and chewing on the soggy paper for a while and wondering what
it was (somebody's bar bill?) took away from the experience for me.

So, a good place to go if you want large quantities of rather bland southern
cooking.  Prices were indeed reasonable, especially by the pound.  But there
was no one thing for dinner I'd ever feel like coming back for.  Maybe I
should go for lunch sometime when there's that raved-over fried chicken. 
But really, I'd say the thing to do is go there to drink, when they have
some  good music - it looks like the have a good dance floor, and this could
be their real money-maker.  There are LOTS of places in Georgetown I'd
rather have dinner at.


-Peter Pulsifer