IN THE NEWS: From www.zagat.com’s Zagat Buzz newsletter, “The results are in, and top food honors in the Zagat’s 2009 Washington, DC/Baltimore Restaurants survey go to Makoto, the “impeccable” Japanese that edged out the Inn at Little Washington (last year’s winner), with the Mediterranean Komi in third place. This follows a pattern of Japanese restaurants […]

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IN THE NEWS: The Washington Post’s Tom Sietsema reviews Et Voila! (5120 MacArthur Blvd. NW, Washington, DC) and reports the scheduled Aug. 24 closing of Merkado (1443 P St. NW), which is to reopen Sept. 8 as Commissary, an all-purpose cafe, lounge, coffeehouse and wine bar. … The Good to Go column visits Nando’s Peri-Peri […]

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