Today we were going to Mark's, the duck restaurant in Falls Church that was recently featured in the Post magazine, but my b-i-l came home from work early, so we decided to hit the ball a little (he's in good shape, I'm not; he can see, I can't; he has decent tennis togs, I stumble about in jeans and walking shoes (non-smearing)). So we hit the ball a little, and I was a little wild, and when he went back for a lob of mine, he fell over and turned his ankle pretty badly. Luckily my sister had wandered down to the park, and we got him home pretty quickly. Got him iced and bandaged, and he still wanted to go out for dinner; but then he stood up. So we stood up Mark's. Got a LaRue steak out of the freezer (sold at the Arlington Co. farmers' market) and cooked it in a sort of griglia mista ... I was a little suspicious of a sirloin certified to be 97% lean: pan-broiled part of it and stir-fried the rest with peppers. It is really a good brand of meat, quite beefy (although the grass-fed nature of it might be startling to those used to cornfed meat) and reasonably tender. I think the breed of cattle they use is the Italian Piemontese. A good alternative to steakhouse meat.
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The reason I haven't been in touch with DC FTers is that with family and old girlfriends and such, my short trips to the metro area have so far been jammed up. I'll have to remedy that sometime I guess. I will make a special trip to either Haandi just about any time! (Aside to joanek: I find the Bethesda one almost as good, and furthermore it has a lunch buffet, which Falls Church doesn't.)

[This message has been edited by violist (edited 08-25-2000).]