After a boozy brunch for New Year’s Eve, what do you need? That’s right–a boozy brunch for New Year’s Day! Obviously. Since both Tyler and I had some friends visiting for our New Year’s Eve party, we wanted to take them to a full out brunch and try a new place! Penn Commons brunch was a brunch to rival Fuego’s! You can read the review for that, but Fuego’s has since closed and it won’t do you much good. Penn Commons might even surpass it in food. Let’s start off with location–Penn Commons is located in Chinatown, just a few…
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Continue ReadingThey opened another Founding Farmers out in Tyson’s corner, right outside the mall and we’ve had the luxury of being able to try it (1) when it first opened, (2) a second time as they were updating their service and adjusting to the layout, and (3) this weekend, now that they have their business model set up for success. My short preface is that our experiences have been wildly varied and inconsistent, sometimes for an amazing experience, and sometimes just “eh”. Founding Farmers is a farm-to-table restaurant, and for brunch has an upscale buffet available. You can order a few items…
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If you haven’t heard of Dangerously Delicious Pies, you’re missing out! They have several locations and a food truck, and what’s more they do sweet AND savory pies. They also do quiches! Before you go “huh”, let me explain! Savory pies are things like Pork BBQ, Hot Rod Potato, and my personal favorite–SMOG. Steak, Onion, Mushroom, and Gruyere! I have a recipe that I’ll share one day to make SMOG pie at home, but you still can’t beat the place that created it all! They’ve got a nice flaky crust, and if you’re a crust fan, a good ratio! For those…
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This weekend had all the plans and then they all fell through! Repeatedly. But we made it better by hiking with the pup, and going out to brunch! If you’ve never been to a Clyde’s, it’s a restaurant chain throughout the greater DC area, and they all have different themes. Their rooms are are themed as well–for example, the one we were in this past weekend was bird-themed so every painting on the wall had some sort of bird as the focus. It’s kinda fun to explore and see where you get seated. We decided to splurge and do brunch right…
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A few weekends ago, T and I made a long (45+min) trip out to Leesburg. I wanted to get my 2017 planner (yes, I realize I’m still about 3 months early, but I already have things I need to write down for next year) and I can order it online, but I can save a few bucks by picking it up in store, plus it comes with instant gratification. It’s an Emily Ley simplified planner and super expensive planner in the grand scheme of things, but as I use it almost every day and it makes me significantly less stressed in…
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You know when you spontaneously invite people to dinner to try a new restaurant and then end up playing the night away with rock band? Oh, is that just me? Haha, but that’s what this night at Rus Uz was! It was a blast, if unexpected. I wanted to try a new restaurant, since while I love Fuegos (read my original review), we went on a hot streak for a while and went almost every week for a month. So I wanted something different. And two of our friends, M & D live in Ballston, so I asked them for suggestions/if they…
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I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but around here in Virginia, we’ve finally entered real fall weather! I personally wish there was a little bit more of a transition since I’m prone to being cold, but T just loves the sweater weather that’s going on. This past weekend was a long weekend for both T and me (Columbus Day), and we packed it full of stuff as we’re ought to do. We hit up the Renaissance Fair again with some friends who had never been (check out my original review), and also hit up a few wineries with my parents who came to visit!…
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This is part two of the Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant review, focusing on the winery! Read part one here. There was just too much to throw into one post so I wanted to separate out the two to do them each justice. When you first walk into the Ashburn, VA location, you walk into the winery. There’s some cute novelty wine items in the front, including some entertaining wine pourers featuring a variety of animals, and also some zombies. All of the stoppers pour from the subjects mouths are are quite festive. They use their pourers at the bar,…
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So these past few weeks have been crazy, as I’ve mentioned! With the wedding, aka Bucknell reunion since like half the guests were college friends, it was an awesome but completely packed wedding weekend! A whole bunch of the Bucknell crew ended up going to brunch at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant. I’m actually going to dedicate two posts to this, one for the restaurant now, and a future one to the winery! That way I can give both aspects their due. So onto the lunch! We had originally wanted brunch, and I thought they had a brunch menu, but…
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This jazz festival event is apparently annual at Lake Anne out in Reston, VA, though this is the first time I’ve gone. We went as part of our awesome labor day weekend, the same one that brought you posts on Reese’s peanut butter bars, and MD Renaissance Festival. It was a crazy weekend packed full of everything: breweries, a wine tasting, the jazz festival, an escape room, dinner at a hot pot restaurant, the renaissance fair, and a ton of board games! The reason we even went out to Lake Anne was because I had heard of a chocolate and wine…
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G’dday ladies and gentleman, and welcome to the Renaissance Faire of ye olde! Jk, I’m not going to type the whole post like that. Mostly because I had to think even long and hard about that one sentence! But I wanted to share with everyone the fun we have at the now annual Renaissance Fair escapade! My sister has gone with some of her college friends for a lot longer than I have (this was only my second year). But now that I’m in the area, I get to tag along, and also provide a place to crash! It’s a…
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Here’s another brunch spot for you to try out: Piola! The one we go to is the location in Arlington (an easy walk from the Rosslyn metro stop, FYI). I’ve heard that there’s one in D.C. but have yet to try that location. The only difference I’ve heard about is that the one in D.C. is bottomless brunch where as the Arlington location, because of VA liquor laws cannot technically do “bottomless”. But Piola, and a lot of other restaurants, get around this by allowing you to add endless drinks from a select menu for $1 ea. Which in some cases I actually…
