Comments on Silver Spring, Singular: Hump Day News 'N Notes

Silver Spring has some of the best restaurants in ...

2010-06-17T16:02:39.678-05:00

Silver Spring has some of the best restaurants in the DC area. Most of the District is a dining wasteland -- mediocre food with horrible service -- and what truly good restaurants there are usually cost an arm and a leg. Yet in SS, there are some veritable gems that are remarkably inexpensive.

There's Mandalay (wonder of wonders, friends of mine who live in Cleveland Park will regularly come visit me in SS specifically to go eat there), dim sum at Oriental East (among the best I've eaten anywhere, including NYC and Toronto), Ghar E Kebab, Quarry House (say what you will about the place, but their burgers are excellent), Ray's The Classics...

Btw, my word verification is "graverap." Love it.

When you have money, Applebee's moves in....when y...

2010-06-17T11:39:53.424-05:00

When you have money, Applebee's moves in....when you're poor you eat pupusas and banh mi.

We're poor but we eat well? I guess are worse thi...

2010-06-17T09:21:20.761-05:00

We're poor but we eat well? I guess are worse things they could have said.

I don't think that ALL the Bethesda restaurants are mediocre, though. Comparatively more expensive, but not all mediocre.

There's no question of that, I just think the use ...

2010-06-17T07:44:12.541-05:00

There's no question of that, I just think the use of the term "less well off", a euphemism for "poor", was amusing...

While I think Tom could have been a little more ta...

2010-06-17T06:35:47.268-05:00

While I think Tom could have been a little more tactful in his reply, his statement is more or less correct. Census reports do indicate that the reported median household income in the Bethesda zip codes is higher than the Silver Spring and Wheaton zip codes.

That former Mayorga space would be perfect for a s...

2010-06-16T19:36:27.555-05:00

That former Mayorga space would be perfect for a sports bar. Now if only I were from Bethesda aka rich to make it happen.

Well, the implication seemed to be that we have go...

2010-06-16T15:53:39.394-05:00

Well, the implication seemed to be that we have good restaurants even though we're poor.

I don't think that compliment was backhanded at al...

2010-06-16T15:51:44.626-05:00

I don't think that compliment was backhanded at all!