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Dining: Peking Gourmet Inn

October 29, 2015 Russell W. Warnick

Peking Duck

There are plenty of ways to prove you've lived in the DMV to call it home, but unless you've eaten at Peking Gourmet Inn in Falls Church I think you need to pass the baton. In a nondescript strip-mall off of Leesburg Pike, with its red and yellow signage, Peking Gourmet looks like any other Chinese restaurant. Except the people waiting outside., there are always people waiting outside. Forget Rose's Luxury, this is the original restaurant people waited in line for. 

Peking Gourmet is a machine like operation, it's larger than it looks and its walls are adorned with photos of famous people who have eaten there, above the doorway is both Presidents Bush and family, including Jeb!  The restaurant churns over tables with amazing efficiency, but not pushy were the waiters are standing over you with a check. In fact, it's the house specialty that actually takes time, fine tuned to precision - the Peking Duck. 

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In Dish, Restaurants Tags Restaurants, Duck, Chinese, Virginia
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Dining: Dumplings & Beyond

June 13, 2014 Russell W. Warnick
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This post is completely self-serving, a new restaurant specializing in dumplings, aptly named Dumplings & Beyond opened in Glover Park, and these dumplings are pretty impressive for DC standards. I'm not going to call this place a "hole in the wall", it's not, but it is basic - think bamboo decor, a simple menu with dishes you'd find on most Chinese menus. But the dumplings are worth shouting about. Not that this place wasn't busy on the Sunday evening I visited, at its peak nearly half of the tables were taken with diners, it just deserves to be busier. I want it to do well.

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In Restaurants Tags Chinese, Dumplings, Glover Park, Dining, Washington DC
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