DC Food Scene

Can DC move past huge steaks and fancy Italian food and into more cutting edge cuisine? DC dinners enjoy sampling the best piece of beef, fancy caviar and the most expensive wines but can we be a dining destination like Chicago, Madrid or even NY. Watching all these fancy cooking/travel shows I'm forced to ask myself would El Bulli do well in DC? I want to say of course but when it comes down to it we are meat and potatoes and anything new scares DCers. DCers don't have the patience for a well paced tasting menu of twenty courses or slightly modified, geeleed, sous vide dishes. Imagine being at Cap Grille getting a wedge salad foam on top of two slices of sous vide kobe rib eye and duck fat fries, OK duck fat fries would work, but the rest of the meal would fail in DC. This resistance to innovation represents the gridlock in DC.

The worst is that DC is an international city but getting people to eat sushi is the farthest leap people are willing to take. We are missing out. Instead of seeking out what is new we give people more cup cakes and more steak or belgian food.

Yes we have some innovative places but they are eclipsed and even celebrity chefs in DC make steak and potatoes. Someone push us to see the world in a new way please. I know this doesn't apply to the 4 readers of this blog. I just wanted to rant.

I want change to come to DC or I need someone to take me to MIniBar.