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George W Bush has never been one for fancy food - any foreign influence (aside from Mexican) smacks of a lack of patriotism. So a pit barbeque is as good as it gets, washed down with a Diet Coke. Any dish that requires too many adjectives to describe it on the menu or, God forbid, has merlot in the sauce, makes this president's stomach churn.
As for Nora's (see list), the restaurant made famous by the Clintons, Bush's bible-thumpers would find some dishes suspect. Can you be a good Christian and love cappuccino angel cake?
So, not one of the six restaurants I'm recommending in Washington DC is at all fitting for any self-respecting, down-home Republican. Which gives the all-clear to any of you who dread a gang of Republican interns doing Osama bin Laden impersonations at the next table.
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Fortunately for diners, antonia bland finds the God-fearing neo-cons tend to shun fancy French cooking |
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Just a thought: if you do decide you want to run into Bush's cronies, especially Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, head for St Michaels, Maryland - it's a 40-minute drive from the capital, on Chesapeake Bay, the Long Island of DC.
Rumsfeld owns a chunk of geography here. Cheney recently was spied house-hunting. Both are regulars at Justine's Ice Cream Parlour. Just to be safe, wear red - you don't want a heavily-armed Cheney taking you for a friend.
Finally, never forget it was the Americans who invented brunch - my guess is they hit Plymouth Rock sometime after breakfast - and the Tabard Inn (see list) serves the best in town: freshly-baked blueberry muffins, pancakes and bottomless coffee - and no smarmy waitresses wishing you a "nice day". 
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