We can recommend Dr. Granville Moore's Brickyard Belgian beer pub and restaurant at 1238 H Street, NE where we feasted on moules et frites about two weeks ago. The beer list runs to 50 or so Belgian beers of various levels of alcohol. We tried five of them with our friend Wally. All were superb. Dinner itself runs about $30 per person, including one or two beers. Wally finished off the evening with a raspberry infused beer in place of dessert. Nice touch.
The restaurant itself is in an old town house that was once Dr. Moore's office. Today it is stripped down to the old plaster, open beams, wooden floor and tables along one wall and the bar on the other. It's a primitive setting for the food which is superb. But I'm always a sucker for mussels.
The wait staff and bartenders are very professional and understand their beers.
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We have done a few theater visits since the beginning of the month. This past Friday, April 11, we saw The Happy Time, part of the Kander and Ebb festival at Signature Theater in Arlington. Happy Time was the piece they produced on Broadway that followed Cabaret. It got lost the season it openeed when there were so many outstanding plays on Broadway. It's a fairly standard "coming of age" production, set in French Canada (On ne sait pas la province.) The music is fine, the acting very good and production a pleasant evening.
Deuxième Musica at the Maison Française at the French Embassy about 10 days ago, a short production half in English, half in French, written by Marguerite Duras. It's a two person 'read' on stage of a couple, separated who meet at the finalization of their divorce. Sad, very existential.
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