food, my only friend in dc

okay, so when when ryan was here we tried to go to this place called baily's. we assumed it was some pub/irish/bar/grill/sports place that served you baily's with every meal. well we go and walk to the door but inside looks like some sort of waiting room. there were stairs in the far corner, an elevator, and a ton of people just standing around. we didn't see a hostess taking names or any type of hint as to what we were supposed to do. so we turned and went off to eat elsewhere. decided to try try again tonight. this time the waiting room was completely empty. up the stairs i walk into the restaurant up top and it is basically a million of those tall tables like you'd see at applebees. each was full of people eating and chatting, but not a server or hostess in sight. on top of that, when i got up there most of the crowd all turned to look at me at the same time. kind of awkward. so after pretending to look as if i was waiting for someone/looking for someone, down the stairs i went out of this most unusual establishment. i really don't know what to make of it at all.

so i've now passed 4 or 5 restaurants and for all of them i am pretty under dressed. i'm wearing shorts, flip flops and my usual button-up. i'm gonna need pants for all of these. the only ones i can do are chilis or chipotle. and although i love both, i'm gonna try new places and i'm gonna review on here. would you expect anything less from me?

tonight when i got off work and..wait. it was this morning on the way to work. there was a total overcast which was rad to see because its been total sun each day. and when i got off, the overcast was still there but everything just looked so grey out and with the sun you could almost look directly at it because it was covered by the haze just right. still walking around. been like 20 minutes of walking. here is mcdonalds and subway. k, i'm literally 2 minutes from the door to my apartment. going up to change. just picture me writing this as i walk through all this and what a loser i am. finally at my restaurant. place is called jaleo. josé andrés is the chef and they are a pretty traditional spanish type place. nice inside. authentic chefs and servers. got shrimp with red pepper stew which was great. bread was good. they brought out this really weird bowel of mini pickles i think. food was good though. took a little long for my refill. meal took like 5 seconds to make. now just waiting for dessert. menu doesn't have a lot for the average folk. too much clutter of spanish on the menu. my dessert was out of this world. too hard to describe and like i said, the menu is in spanish, so you'll just have to go. my server is a tad slow.