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pltrgyst <pltrgyst@spamlessxhost.org> wrote in
news:a8q343lvi05kshcs5c38gd7r3j5k1r3mt6@4ax.com: 
> It's Flash-based, which will make many people ignore it altogether.
> And it's interesting that there's no information about the chef's
> background -- Bistro Asiatique, for instance.

I thought it was annoying and overdone (the web site, but perhaps also 
the restaurant), doesn't provide a way to bypass the Flash crap and 
commits the unpardonable sin of opening a new window and changing my 
browser's default size.  Thou shalt not screw with the viewer's 
browser...  Oh, and the endless loop of the grotesque New Age Health Spa 
music tinkling in the background.  I hope they don't play that in the 
restaurant.  I'd have to run screaming out the front door before the 
appetizers arrived.  Also, the link to the map doesn't actually show a 
map or even include the address of the restaurant.  Ugh...

> With the restaurant's repeated emphasis on the owners and "seeing and
> being seen," some high prices ($29 for steak/frites at *lunch*), and
> the stodgy (dull) wine list (better on the whites than the reds), it
> doesn't look worth a drive, with so many interesting places opening in
> the District. 

The wine list doesn't bother to list the producers for the Burgundies, so 
it's hard to tell if the markups are excessive or not.  The rest of the 
wine list is pricey and looks like what you'd find in pretty much any 
expense-account chophouse anywhere in the country.  Nothing daring, 
interesting or even vaguely matching "French-Asian fusion."  Not for me, 
anyway.  YMMV.

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Archie

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