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On a cool Friday evening in the summer of 1997, Stevie Wonder stopped traffic outside of Felix restaurant in Adams Morgan. In town for a performance, the musician swung by the restaurant’s Shabbat dinner — he'd heard about it from a nail salon employee he'd seen for pre-show grooming. Wonder was so enchanted by the band that
On Nov. 16, 1983, a Wednesday, readers of The Washington Post awoke to an essay, meandering over four pages, on which beers to pair with which parts of the Thanksgiving feast the following week. It was written by the English beer critic Michael Jackson. As difficult as
The reservation was nearly impossible to get. The meal will cost several hundred dollars. The chef is a culinary genius. But in the era of the four-hour, 40-course tasting menu, one key ingredient is missing: any interest in what (or how much) the customer wants to eat.
"My true start in journalism began with a mop and a bucket at the Worthington Daily Globe, where I was hired as a janitor in junior high school, or so I remember."
Turnover is rare in the ultra exclusive realm of big city restaurant critics. After all, who wants to give up a hefty expense account to eat at the best restaurants, plus a platform to arbitrate tastes and cultural trends? Most Supreme Court justices serve shorter terms. But in recent years, there has been a notable