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Foodie News: County Restaurants Get Poor Showing in Post's 'Top Dishes' List

In Friendship Heights, meat-centric Range cooked up a vegetarian feast for two Washington Post reporters.

 

Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with 1 Meat, 3 Sides. This week, Montgomery County's lackluster showing in The Washington Post's list of top 40 dishes in the DC area takes center plate.

One meat:

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Only three Montgomery County restaurants made made The Post's list of "40 dishes Washingtonians shouldn't live without in 2013," released last Thursday, Bethesda Patch reported.

The fried potato tots at , the fried chicken with spiced salt and basil at Rockville's Jumbo Jumbo Cafe and the Mongolian beef with cumin at Joe's Noodle House, also in Rockvile, made the list.

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Last year, many other restaurants in Montgomery County were included in the roundup.

Read more on Bethesda Patch.

Three sides:

"Crêpes as authentic as you can get this side of the Atlantic Ocean are on their way to downtown Silver Spring," Silver Spring Patch reported. La Madeleine, a Dallas-based chain of "French country" cafes, will open on Georgia Avenue in late March, according to a representative from the company.

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Haandi, a favorite Bethesda Indian restaurant that was displaced by construction of a Fairmont Avenue high-rise, has re-opened in the Woodmont Triangle, at 7907 Norfolk Ave. (in the former Uptown Deli space).

"The construction of a 17-story high-rise displaced the former Fairmont Avenue eatery, along with other Bethesda mainstays Sweet Basil and Foong Lin," Bethesda Patch reported.

Foong Lin has moved to Willow Avenue, on the Bethesda-Chevy Chase border, and has changed its name to House of Foong Lin, Chevy Chase Patch reported.

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Chevy Chase's Range restaurant—known for its meat-centric cuisine—got a mention in The Washington Post's recent review of high-end DC-area restaurants offering exceptional vegetarian dining. The Post's Tom Sietsema and Joe Yonan visited Range, asked for something vegetarian and witnessed/tasted the following results:

A kimchi linguine that normally comes with uni and bay scallops gets maitake mushrooms and little wisps of kale instead, and an off-the-menu lasagna layers thin sheets of poached Yukon Gold potatoes with a tomato marmalade and garlicky chanterelles. Chef de cuisine Matt Hill gets credit for the latter, a $16 wonder, aromatic with orange zest (and vegan-friendly). 

Dessert:

Frozen yogurt shop Sweetgreen is coming to downtown Silver Spring this summer.

"We've wanted to be in Silver Spring for a while and we finally found a location," co-owner Nic Jammet told DC Eater. He said fans of the restaurant often wrote to request a Silver Spring location. 

Read more on Silver Spring Patch.


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