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Ben's Chili Bowl - Washington, DC
Located conviniently close to the Black Cat in downtown DC, this burger/chili/dog joint has been a DC staple for years. Everything is good, and nothing is good for you. Be careful how much you order, it can come back to haunt you. Also, it's open late, so we would advise eating there AFTER the show. Bad things can happen if you get too much Ben's before going on stage.

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It's only a matter of time now until bands, blogs, and Gourmet magazine start talking up the fantastic food featured at the Birchmere.

* Czech Stop - West, Texas
On the northbound feeder road off of I-35 at exit 353 there is a Shell station. In that Shell station is the Czech Stop, home to some of the best kolachies we have had. What is a kolache? It's a Czech sausage wrapped in a roll. Our advice is to order a box of all different types, and don't forget to order a Spicy Hot Chubby. Grab a Big Czech to wash it all down.

oh, how many times i've stopped there when i was in college coming back from dallas/going to dallas. west is also home to west-fest, basically, a big czech festival with lots of drinking.

I would probably never go to a Dodger game where Anaheim or Pittsburgh wasn't playing if it weren't for Philippe's on the way. Good stuff. And they serve anything from PBR in a can up to Plumpjack and Justin. Amazing stuff.

* Philippe the Original (aka Philippe's) - Los Angeles, CA
Every time we're in L.A., we can't wait to leave. Not because we don't like L.A., but because this is always our last stop before skipping town. Philippe the Original is the birthplace of the French dip sandwich: roast beef served on a freshly baked French roll dipped (or double dipped if requested…and you should because you will love it) in the natural gravy of the meat. Other equally good choices are roast pork, leg of lamb, oven-roasted turkey or ham. The homemade lemonade is great and coffee still costs the same as it did when they opened in 1908: a mere $.09 cents. It's an L.A. institution.

all this talk of location-specific soul food has made me nostalgic for a burrito from Anna's Taqueria…

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
* Czech Stop - West, Texas
On the northbound feeder road off of I-35 at exit 353 there is a Shell station. In that Shell station is the Czech Stop, home to some of the best kolachies we have had. What is a kolache? It's a Czech sausage wrapped in a roll. Our advice is to order a box of all different types, and don't forget to order a Spicy Hot Chubby. Grab a Big Czech to wash it all down.

oh, how many times i've stopped there when i was in college coming back from dallas/going to dallas. west is also home to west-fest, basically, a big czech festival with lots of drinking.

Seconded. Where did you go to school?

Originally posted by Tom Servo:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
* Czech Stop - West, Texas
On the northbound feeder road off of I-35 at exit 353 there is a Shell station. In that Shell station is the Czech Stop, home to some of the best kolachies we have had. What is a kolache? It's a Czech sausage wrapped in a roll. Our advice is to order a box of all different types, and don't forget to order a Spicy Hot Chubby. Grab a Big Czech to wash it all down.

oh, how many times i've stopped there when i was in college coming back from dallas/going to dallas. west is also home to west-fest, basically, a big czech festival with lots of drinking.

Seconded. Where did you go to school?

baylor

Ben's Chili Bowl was much cooler before it became a de-rigeur stop for hipsters slumming it… back in the days when Stokely used to breakfast there, those were the days to hang out at Ben's.

who the fuck calls that area of the city "midcity"

its like the "noma" term they are using as well.

gggrrr. knock it off with the forced pseudo hip names.

can you even imagine what they will call trinidad, ivy city, etc, if they get all gentrified as well?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
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It's only a matter of time now until bands, blogs, and Gourmet magazine start talking up the fantastic food featured at the Birchmere.

The hipsters will call Trinidad Florensberg (from nearby Florida Ave and Bladensburg Roads.)

Seriously though, of the new hipster monikers, NoMa is the most lame, because that's clearly a ripoff on SoHo, and thus it's "we want to be like New York" hipsterism.

Enlighten me. What in the FUCK does NoMa stand for?

You unenlightened git!

Just kidding… it stands for "North of Mass Avenue." Clever, no?

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
* Czech Stop - West, Texas
On the northbound feeder road off of I-35 at exit 353 there is a Shell station. In that Shell station is the Czech Stop, home to some of the best kolachies we have had.

The best cuban sandwich in Pinellas County (St. Pete/Clearwater, Florida) is in this odd little convenience store on this stretch of highway across from the St Pete/Clearwater airport. Yum.