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Olivia Greenway, travel journalist and copywriter

5 Great Restaurants and Cafes In Washington DC

December 5, 2011
By olivia

Housed in an unexciting looking modern building, at first glance this place is nothing special.  But once you step inside Founding Farmers and feel the buzz – and join the line of you haven’t booked – it’s another matter entirely.  Centre stage is an elliptical peninsula bar.  Here you may perch on your stool in the middle of the action, eating your supper watching the award-winning mixologists at work, or take a proper table and eat at a more relaxed pace. Try the corn bread served in a skillet with honey; fried green tomatoes or southern pan-fried chicken.  Beer from local microbreweries is excellent. Fresh, local produce is favoured and they have a beehive planned for the roof.  Brash, noisy and terrific fun.  www.wearefoundingfarmers.com

 

Teaism could not be more different.  It’s as soothing and calming as its food.  Freshly cooked to order, try seitan stir fry with macadamia nuts and brown rice or a buffalo burger on focaccia bread with Asian slaw.  Wash it down with the best tea you’ve ever tasted or pomegranate juice with blueberry.   Three branches, DuPont Circle getting my vote. www.teaism.com

 

A gelato-style ice-cream parlour, Dolcezza is full of character.  Old window frames are hung on the walls as menu boards; they write on the glass.  The ice cream is all hand made with fresh ingredients and no additives.  My favourite is the branch at Dupont circle – around a huge gnarled old oak table, complete with vase of fresh flowers, students are normally tapping away on their laptops, and eating ice cream.  They also serve very good coffee (they have their own roaster) and churros.  dolcezzagelato.com

 

This deli has a simple concept – you choose your bread, then your fillings and voila – your sandwich.  Thing is, at Café Phillips, there is a huge variety of fresh bread from which to choose – rye, caraway seed, focaccia, sundried tomato – not a Mother’s Pride in sight – and then you choose from a long list of fillings, that are there right in front of you – beef, chicken, turkey, salt beef, often carved in front of you off the bone – and then as well as the usual lettuce, tomato, cucumber, there is gherkin, mashed avocado and red onion marmalade.  Always busy, it’s not usually long before you get a seat.  Dotted over the city, they are all a bit different.  www.cafephillips.com

 

Don’t go in a big huff when you realize this place is vegetarian.  The food at Café Green is also vegan and some of it is raw.  If that is a bridge too far, just give it a go anyway.  After a week of Desperate Dan size meals loaded with greasy calories, it’s a welcome respite.  The mandoo Korean dumpling with dipping sauce and mung bean pancakes are both excellent starters.  The Mac n Cheese is made with nutritional yeast – this information is perhaps superfluous as it’s delicious anyway.  For comfort food extraordinaire, try the “meat” loaf, served with creamy mash, roast asparagus, carrots and gravy.  www.javagreen.net

 

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Trips 2018/2019

2019

January: Zanzibar

March: Cape Town & Pretoria

May: Slovenia

October: South Africa (tbc)

November: Kenya (tbc)

 

Trips 2018

March:  New York, including Frick Gallery

May:  Vietnam including Halong Bay

June:  Giverny and Monet’s garden

June:  Majorca

December: Hyderabad and Chandigarh, India

Trips 2017

January: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
February: Bangalore
April: Lake District
May: Malaga
September: Mexico, Cancun
November: Delhi, Agra, Shimla
December: Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Venice

Trips 2016 (not clickable)

January: Oxford, Tenerife
February: Hampshire
March: Manchester
April: Sicily, Germany
October: Bangalore, New Delhi
November: Bangalore, New Delhi
December: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

List of trips 2015 (not clickable)

January: European ski resorts; Milan
February: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
March: Istanbul, Jersey, Vienna, Prague, Budapest
April: Road trip Ireland
May: Road trip France, Germany, Benelux and Copenhagen
June: UK luxury hotels
December: Cannes

List of trips 2014 (not clickable)

January Weimar, Vienna
February - Berlin, London
April - Chicago, Toronto, Montreal
May/June - Driving trip, Spain
July – Majorca
July - Paris
August - Southern UK
September – Northern Italy including Venice
October - South of France
October/November - Germany, Austria and Switzerland
December - Cape Town, Durban, driving along Garden Route South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda

List of trips 2013 (not clickable)

  • January - Tenerife
  • March - Istanbul
  • April - Italy luxury hotels - mid and southern Italy including Sicily
  • June - Las Vegas
  • June - Massive west coast road trip - Vancouver, BC
  • June - Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Napa Valley, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Diego
  • September - Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia
  • September - Carolinas, Georgia, northern Florida (Talahassee area)
  • September - New Orleans, Orlando, Miami; Vancouver
  • October - Puglia, Italy and Milan

List of trips 2012

  • January - Hawaii, USA
  • February - France - Le Touquet, Lens, Lille
  • March - Nelamangala, India
  • July - Milan, Italy
  • August - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • August - Iguazu Falls, Brazil
  • August - Montevideo, Uruguay
  • September - Delhi, India
  • November - Dubai, UAE

List of trips 2011

  • January - Madeira, Portugal
  • February - Bangalore, India
  • April - British Virgin Islands, Caribbean
  • May - Sicily, Italy
  • May - San Francisco, USA
  • June - Bangalore and New Delhi, India
  • July - Prague, Czech Republic
  • July - Munich, Germany
  • July - Washington DC, USA
  • August - Lake District, UK
  • September - La Grande-Motte, France
  • Annapolis, USA
  • October - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • December - Helsinki, Finland
  • December - St Petersburg, Russia

List of trips 2010

  • February - India - Kerala & Chennai
  • March - Manchester & the North West
  • March - Austria
  • April - Czech Republic
  • May - Lake District
  • June - Cologne
  • July - India - Bangalore and Delhi
  • August - Eastern Cape & KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • September - Grasse, south of France
  • September - Wick, Scotland
  • October - Utah, USA
  • December - Montreal, Canada
  • December - Madeira, Portugal
Olivia Greenway, travel journalist and copywriter
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