Helen's Food Consumption
Restaurant Recommendation/Review websites
- Yelp -- this has been invaluable especially when traveling
to parts across the US. It has helped me find such local gems as: Mas Tapas in Charlottesville, VA,
La Bicyclette in Carmel, CA,
and this great Mexican place while driving around Sonoma, CA.
We were not led astray by fellow yelpers! Now of course there are other websites like urbanspoon
and now a new iphone app called menupages (news link), but I have found that those 2 so far are very NYC-centric. And as much as NYC would love to believe it...we don't all revolve only around NYC! It seems like MenuPages
would be a good resource for actual listings of menus...now if only we could get something for DC.
Favorite chocolate
Favorite Virginia restaurants
- Libery Tavern
- Boccato
- Minh's
- Pho Cyclo
- Haandi
Favorite Wine bars in NYC
- Xia Xia -- Pinotage has become one my favorite red wines lately
Favorite Wine Stores In Virginia
- Arrowine
- Best Cellars
- Total Wine
Favorite Beer
-- I prefer malty over hoppy
Favorite Wine
White
- south african blend
- Greek white found at Arrowine
Red
Favorite Tea Stores/Resources in D.C. area
- Ching Ching Cha -- great, quiet place in Georgetown that is a great place to sit down
and have some tea and light snacks and also to buy some tea canisters and some loose leaf tea
- Teaism -- honestly I never buy loose leaf tea from here or even buy anything from their overpriced store, but I
do love the restaurant and often get the hot chai to go since they have restaurant in Dupont Circle that is only one
or two blocks from where I work
- Taiga -- Japanese store in College Park, MD that happens to sell various teas, my favorite is their organic hojicha
- Teavana -- only really go there to buy their Yerba Mate