[RP TownTalk] Good restaurants

[Nancy Augustine]

 Dwight -
I hope you'll keep the restaurant recommendations on your blog.  

Tara Thai? Really? Alice (or anyone else), if you have contact info for the
person to lobby with, I'll lobby. There isn't nearly enough Thai food in my
life. Other than the wonderful Indian restaurants in Langley Park (Tiffin
and Udupi Palace), not nearly enough Asian, certainly not enough east Asian.


El Tapatio is one of my favorites. Franklin's has really good bar food, but
the entrees are worth skipping. Calvert House is reliable, great crabcakes.
I've been to Alamo twice, and both times they had two older gentlemen
playing guitar and singing, very nice.

Nancy A. 

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[mailto:towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org] On Behalf Of Dwight Holmes
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 2:37 PM
To: Regina M. Kreger
Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Good restaurants

Regina -- thanks for the tips. Actually we have been to El Tapatio, it is
good, as you say. And I'm sorry I forgot about it when creating the poll..
The others are new to me...

Could I persuade you (and everyone) to please add these favorites of yours
to the reviews on http://rpwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Where+to+dine+%26+drink,
the same page where the poll is?  Thanks to several people who already have,
we're starting to compile a decent list of local eateries. Obviously the
more places listed, and the more reviews & comments on each, the more useful
the wiki will become. Thanks!

BTW, here are the current 'rankings' from the poll (35 responses):

To what local area restaurant would you happily steer your open-minded,
omnivore friend looking for a recommendation?

94th Aero Squadron (College Park Airport)  9% (3 votes) Alamo Restaurant
(Kenilworth Ave)  6% (2 votes) Calvert House Inn (Rt 1)  3% (1 votes) Dumm's
Pizza  3% (1 votes) Franklin's (Rt 1)  6% (2 votes)
La Sirenita (Edmonston Road)   6% (2 votes)
Little Giant (Rt 1)  0% (0 votes)
Pollo Fiesta (Kenilworth Ave)  9% (3 votes) S&J's  26% (9 votes) Taqueria
Tres Reyes (Kenilworth Ave)  3% (1 votes) Other  31% (11 votes):

Other includes:
    *  Plato's Diner
    * Hanami
    * los cabos, Hanami
    * Chef's Secret (Greenbelt Rd)
    * Yi Jo Korean restaurant, at Days Inn, Rt 1 College Park
    * Mama Lucia
    * Plato's Diner
    * Hanami Japanese Restaurant
    * Samantha's in Langley Park; Woodlands in Langley Park;
    * none of the above
    * Ten Ren's Tea Room on Rt. 1


On 10/26/07, Regina M. Kreger <regina at kreger.net> wrote:
>
>  I'm the one who posted Yi Jo, the Korean place at the Days Inn on Rt. 1
in CP.  Go for the Bibim Bop, the stone crock version.
>
>  Also recommended: El Tapatío on Kenilworth -- a little Mexican hole 
> in the wall, but REAL Mexican, and really good Mexican.  Especially, I 
> can vouch for the posole soup, and hmm, I think I will go get some 
> today!  (altho it's a soup, don't be fooled -- it is an entree, not a 
> weak little appetizer)
>
>  Also, La Fuente, in Beltsville, just past Powder Mill on Rt. 1, little
shopping center on the right as you head away from Riverdale Park.
Salvadoran.  When I was last there they had no liquor license, no wine or
beer either; I don't know if that was a temporary thing (it opened I think
not more than a year ago), or if they are teetotallers on principle.  Really
good food, and quite authentic.  Again, I particularly recommend a soup: the
mariscada, a mixed shellfish soup. Fabulous.
>
>  I love soup.  :-)
>  (bibim bop is not a soup)
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