Restaurant Week

i'm with you bags, rio grande has the best fajitas in the entire metropolitan area.

Originally posted by lily1:
and if you're craving pupusas (the unofficial, or perhaps, official dish of el salvador), irene's pupusas, also in wheaton is the place to go. no other place makes better pupusas. and they are $1.50 each.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
There's a good Salvadorean restaurant out in Wheaton called Los Chorros.

Pupusas, that's the official dish. Actually, El Salvador and Honduras are now fighting over the geographical origin of pupusas. Both countries want the recognition as the pupusa maker in order to export them to the US once all or most of Central American countries sign de Central American Free Trade Agreement with the US.

Speaking of Central American food, does anyone know what's up with this Pollo Campero place on Columbia Pike in South Arlington?

It looks like a fast-food joint and it's been open a couple of months, but the crowds are f#cking insane. Whenever I have driven by, there have literally been lines out the door and around the parking lot. They have barricades to keep the lines in formation. We're talking hundreds of people.

Originally posted by ggw™:
Speaking of Central American food, does anyone know what's up with this Pollo Campero place on Columbia Pike in South Arlington?

It looks like a fast-food joint and it's been open a couple of months, but the crowds are f#cking insane. Whenever I have driven by, there have literally been lines out the door and around the parking lot. They have barricades to keep the lines in formation. We're talking hundreds of people.

Pollo Campero, if you ever fly from San Salvador to the US, your chances that the plane smells to chicken are high. All Salvadoreans that come to the US always bring the Pollo Campero box with fried chicken on it. It is the Fast Food chain there. I am not sure if it is Salvadorean or Guatemalan, but I tell you, it is a big thing in El Salvador and it looks like it is a great present they can bring to Salvadoreans in the US to feel like at home. Very interesting country, not the country you would visit as a touristic place, but people are great. Great place.

I have heard that because men cook the food in latin american restaurants in the US, that the food isn't as good.

I don't know if that's true though.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I have heard that because men cook the food in latin american restaurants in the US, that the food isn't as good.

I don't know if that's true though.

That sounds like bullshit. Aren't most of the best chefs men?

I'm not talking about Chez Antoine's. I'm talking about a normal restaurant.

Originally posted by Jaguär:
That sounds like bullshit. Aren't most of the best chefs men?

There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway. Its been open a couple of months. I normally get my chicken at Granja….. its not fried.

And I love lauriol plaza. I dont like waiting in line to get in, but I try and go at odd times or when the weather is iffy, then I get straight in. They have the best sloppy salsa and chips in the whole of DC.

Originally posted by mark e smith:
There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway. Its been open a couple of months. I normally get my chicken at Granja….. its not fried.

that one does not seem very busy, or maybe I just have not noticed, the last place there died a quick death

Originally posted by pollard:

Originally posted by mark e smith:
There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway. Its been open a couple of months. I normally get my chicken at Granja….. its not fried.

that one does not seem very busy, or maybe I just have not noticed, the last place there died a quick death

no you just haven't noticed……………….it is usually extremely busy……..

No its never been busy when I have been around. But Granja really is only a minutes walk away and has been there years.

Originally posted by poorlulu:
]……………….it is usually extremely busy……..

Wasnt busy the other night when we popped our heads in….. When do you see campero busy?

Originally posted by mark e smith:

Originally posted by poorlulu:
]……………….it is usually extremely busy……..

Wasnt busy the other night when we popped our heads in….. When do you see campero busy?

usually in the afternoons………..a small crowd gathers at the doors…………

although i admit when we went in the other night it was very quiet………….

i've also noticed that i don't have to wait for ages at granja anymore………..hmmmmmm why can that be?

Originally posted by poorlulu:
i've also noticed that i don't have to wait for ages at granja anymore………..hmmmmmm why can that be?

Your odour scares other patrons?

Must be on its 14th minute?

Originally posted by poorlulu:
i've also noticed that i don't have to wait for ages at granja anymore………..hmmmmmm why can that be?

Originally posted by mark e smith:
There is a pollo campero in adams morgan, across from the safeway.

It may be a fake. I did a google search, and they show Baileys Crossroads and Herndon as their only DC area locations. Apparently, there were quite a few storefront stores that have been using the name even though they're not affiliated.

-edit- Thinking of the wrong thing…

Originally posted by lily1:
and if you're craving pupusas (the unofficial, or perhaps, official dish of el salvador), irene's pupusas, also in wheaton is the place to go. no other place makes better pupusas. and they are $1.50 each.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
There's a good Salvadorean restaurant out in Wheaton called Los Chorros.

combining the RW theme and the Mexican theme into one, Andale (near MCI) has also extended RW but only till tomorrow 1/24

Originally posted by brennser:
combining the RW theme and the Mexican theme into one, Andale (near MCI) has also extended RW but only till tomorrow 1/24

wow brennser i read RW as robbie williams……….i'm easily confused