Not Robert Burns
If you're in the DC metro area, stop by Scotland Yard in Old Town Alexandria for some fine cuisine. Tonight's the only night of the year that they serve haggis.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Happy Burns Night
It's that time of year where we celebrate Scotland's favorite poet - Burns Night!
Not Robert Burns
If you're in the DC metro area, stop by Scotland Yard in Old Town Alexandria for some fine cuisine. Tonight's the only night of the year that they serve haggis.
Not Robert Burns
If you're in the DC metro area, stop by Scotland Yard in Old Town Alexandria for some fine cuisine. Tonight's the only night of the year that they serve haggis.
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There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman.
Believe it or not, that was going to be the title of the post before I chose a simple "Happy Burns Night."
I wonder how the proprietor of Scotland Yard is. Next to me, he was the coolest guy in Old Town.
Remember how pi$$ed he was when we went in there and only ordered whiskey?
Um....er....uh, hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but Scotland Yard is no more. The owner (you know, the lonely guy in the kilt) had some health problems. There's a new place in that location now.
So have a drink to kilt-guy's health, will ya?
16:9, I hope it's not another Starbucks.
I'm not sure, but I think Old Town has the 2nd highest Starbucks-to-Population ratio in America. Fortunately, the new place is a family-owned restaurant, me thinks.
I'm surprised they allow family-owned places in OTA. They like to be the trendiest!! I'm surprised it's not another cosi or au bon pain.
That's terrible! Sure, pizza places and coffee shops are a dime a dozen in that area. But where else could you get venison? I'll have to raise a nip to Scotland Yard tonight.
I raise a toast to men sans underwear and the night the English made us too drunk to fight!
BTW, you guys all disparage Old Town, but you know you'd give your left nut (sorry 16:9) to be back there.
Damn, KPMD. Why you gotta be hurtful like that? Surely there's a line, and I think ye have long passed it....
:)
I want everyone to write a poem... (KPMD, did you download the Dana Gould comedy goodness?)
I wasn't knocking Old Town at all. Out of the whole DC area, that was the best place to live in. Where do you think our future communal house is going to be located at?
16:9 - I do apologize, I just couldn't think of anything more valuable to a guy than that (and the right one, I guess)
Micah - I have not yet downloaded the Dana Gould comedy goodness, but remembering that and "I'm TARDED" makes me wanna. I can't wait to listen to Dana Gould over the sound system in our communal home in Old Town. I miss that place.
Take over Mrs. Disney's apartment and bring back Friday night Sopranos-and-Deep Dish nights! Yeah, those were cool years.
Mrs. Disney?
Man, you guys are making me want to go into my time machine (i.e. drink heavily).
KPMD - http://www.danagould.com/funhouse.html "I throw my feces against the wall because it's there."
Spydrz, she lived in the apartment next to Marshall and I on the bad side of Alexandria. She complained to management one time about Marshall's loud music. Because he was just rebellious like that. Stupid old lady.
I think I only went to that apartment once...but we did watch Montclair's best family on HBO.
I still have what - a year and a half to get my bum relocated to DC so we can relive the Sopranos night tradition?
Maaaan, I've got like 3 or 4 years before I can make it back to Shangri-La. That gives you guys plenty of time to get 315 back from the Australian attache and build it back to it's former glory. (Sambo anyone?) I sooooooo have dibs on the room with the jacuzzi tub.
I do so miss the Nook of Oppression.
And I'll gladly take my loft back, despite the lack of a door. Hope the moanin'* doesn't keep you up.
*purely hypothetical
No more "The most uncomfortable couch in the world®" for me...
I have only one request: my pizza must be delivered by a 4'2" drunken, disheveled man driving an ice cream truck. And I don't think that's asking much.
Did you guys know that Sutton Place has got some other name now? It's still populated with rich Stepford women and is the only place I know you can get Andouille on special order.
Just something to grow on...Dana Gould and new fitness routine including ab crunches do not mix. "Dis is iwony at it's hoshest"
I can do you one better: Hank the Angry Drunken Delivery Guy will live with us (you know, just in case Pubes breaks).
We had to call in a priest, but the couch is no more.
I'm pretty sure I helped remove that couch from 315. I know I carried it into the house. Yes, y'all will be getting phone calls when I move...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (eeeevil laugh).
I'd heard that about Sutton Place. I'm still peeved that they got rid of the Vice President sandwich.
And Dana Gould is good for any occasion. "Bate has struck a cwuel blow"
I'd like to point out that Richmond has had a Five Guys for almost a year now. Oh, and I have three bedrooms for rent.
Mmm...Five Guys. They opened one this summer in Georgetown. Open 'til 2AM on weekdays and 4 on weekends. During my last trip, we stumbled our way up there after a night of bar-hopping, and goddamn it is so much better when you're drunk. NOLA's Lucky Dogs got nothin' on Five Guys!
But NOLA has that lovely Krystal burger on the corner of Canal and Bourbon.
It's retaaarded fury, you can't fight it!
Wave after wave of retarded schoolgirls...
As much as I love the place, Five Guys has "jumped the shark." Last time I was home there was a "Coming Soon - Five Guys" banner draped across a storefront in a strip mall around South Park Mall. That's right. Colonial Heights is getting a Five Guys. They're really stretching with their definition of "Northern Virginia."
The Heights is SO not NoVa.
Dude, those burgers are still f^&$ing tasty, no matter where they're being slung.
Oh I know they're tasty...I might be heading there tomorrow for some greasy goodness. Yum. Plus, all the peanuts you can shell. M, do you know a good place to get some boiled peanuts around here? I've been wanting some of those.
Yes, but they must be slung by peoples of hispanic descent. That's what was so off-putting about the Richmond one: fresh-faced squeaky-clean caucasian high school kids prepared and served our burgers. Sad.
Goober peas? Hmmm. Maybe try Padow's.
But those servers *understand* the order. When I say extra onions, I gets the extra onions!
Hmmm...Padow's? I mean some stand along the side of Rte. 10 in Hopewell or something...real, still wet, boiled peanuts. Yum. They would compliment my Two Buck Chuck now. Too bad the only place to buy that wine is Trader Joe's in Springfield.
You guys are such losers. I am just jealous that I can not be a part this witty, yet inane, banter. I too mis the 703 and we will soon all converge on the city not along the Nile. No offense Doug, but Richmond is a little less sophisticated than Alexandria, yet it still remains on my list. Anyway, back to the supposed topic of this post...I just wanted Micah to know that they serve Haggis in our Hospital Cafe once a month or so...It is pretty good but is not cooked within an organ (plastic caseing) and without the brain. Too bad, kinda wanted to get "mad". Until later (from Kingston upon Thames)...
Great blog - rolled yer
RuKsaK - Thanks for stopping by.
Shamrock!!! Great to hear from you. Oh, man - cafeteria haggis. Now I definitely have to visit.
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