On a nice summer night, when humidity levels reach a mere 96%, we know you will head to everyone’s favorite Mexican food restaurant, Lauriol Plaza. Sure, it’s cool in that soulless kind of way and has a rooftop deck, and the eye candy doesn’t hurt. But upon arrival you will wait five hours to get a table — nine if you want the patio. MORE »

Darlington House opened to high expectations last year when it replaced the popular Childe Harold on 20th and Connecticut, north of Dupont Circle. Unfortunately, Darlington, despite its pleasant outdoor seating, fails to live up to expectations. MORE »

Ching Ching Cha is a delightful little restaurant that provides several things rarely found in tandem in Georgetown: cheap food, healthy food, and peace and quiet.  Oh yes, and it also has loose leaf tea by the elephant ton. MORE »

La Loma is the perfect place to go if you want Mexican food in a festive atmosphere and you don’t really care what you’re eating, as long as it’s smothered in orange cheese. It’s also a fantastic place to go if you want to eavesdrop on some first hand DC gossip — after all, this is Capitol Hill. MORE »

Tryst in Adams Morgan has all the makings of a perfect coffee house, except for one tiny problem: the coffee is just not very good. They pride themselves on fresh organic coffee or whatever, but it always ends up coming to you lukewarm and watery. The animal crackers on the side don’t help, either. It’s almost patronizing — an apology for the shitty coffee. MORE »

Co Co. Sala is supposed to be the perfect place for a first date or a ladies’ night out. There are chocolate desserts, a bar stocked with girly cocktail drinks and sexytime mood lighting. So why is this place so lame? MORE »

You remember Asian Spice — Wonkette had a contest last summer for the Wonkettini, and the winning cocktail recipe would actually be put on the cocktail menu. Well, the “blackout drink” never actually made it to the menu, so Your Reviewer wasn’t able to “get fucked up” as promised. But! MORE »

If you need ideas of where to go for the DC Winter Restaurant Week, here’s a good one: Acadiana.

Acadiana’s food has a Creole and Cajun flair, with a seafood-heavy menu and a modern take on comfort food. For example, the biscuits came with salted butter drowned in a sweet Thai chili sauce — it was weird, but it worked, and fit right into the Cajun-fusion spirit of the restaurant. MORE »

The Wrestler is a sad little story about Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a washed-up wrestler who spends his wages from his job at the supermarket on tanning sessions, hair appointments (for that fried, bleached-blond look) and the ‘roids. He devotes his whole life to the weekend, where he wrestles in local community centers and town halls for whatever money is thrown his way. MORE »