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Down In The Amazon

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 This review is a bit special for me for a two reasons: it was one of our first dates last year in mid-September and this specific visit was for the celebration of a new job. We wanted to do something special, and considering the transitionary period we're going through at the moment, Amazonia could be quite restrictive in price. Either way, we had many reasons to celebrate, and after a long summer of turmoil, excitement, changes, and growth, we wanted to finish our summer strong. Luckily for us, the week we decided to go out, Amazonia was one of many restaurants that was participating in Restaurant Week. Coursed meals were priced reasonably and we knew we had to indulge in a favorite of ours. amazonia has a beautiful leatherbound menu held up by my lovely tasting partner There's an argument my girl and I constantly have when we go to a Hispanic restaurant; the constant battle of Peruvian vs. Mexican food, to which my retort is almost always that Peruvian is excellent, despite ...
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Don't Be Yellow!

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 There was a time I had yet to visit the Capital of the very country I was born in. A few days before I visited, I had the worst craving for Middle Eastern food. I had already spent nine months in Boston and lived a five minute walk from one of the best Turkish restaurants in the city, but there was an itch to scratch, and that joint wasn't going to fulfill it, so I Google'd a bit and found a few spots, but my itinerary, while not set in stone, was mostly set, and I couldn't be bothered to change it. Fast forward five months after I visited D.C., and I had just moved back to Los Angeles, only to find out that my favorite Lebanese was closed down permanently (COVID). Luckily, I was visiting DC for the second time in a month as my girlfriend had just moved close to Georgetown and it was yet to be revealed to me that I would uproot my life again to move back east. Yellow had been on my list since April of '23 and I was finally able to go in. It was lunch rush, but even the...
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