We’re a book club of 40-something NoVa women who usually do home meetings/dinners but do restaurants twice a year. A couple of people need Metro access but we can arrange rides if needed. Our favorite has been Willow...

, the floor beneath us was sticky, as if a coke was spilled earlier in the day.

of wines-by-the-glass in NoVa. I’m an wine lover moving to the area soon, and would love to find some good spots. Also, any names/locations of top wine stores would be appreciated.

Minhs is a great Vietnamese restaurant not too far from where you are staying. Take the metro to the Courthouse station (the second stop from GMU/Virginia Square) and then walk up Wilson Blvd. a couple of blocks. It is on the...

The Neapolitan oven to eat all others (in 40 to 90 seconds, tops).

At first, the hotel restaurant looked so elegant, with its chandeliers and Casio keyboard.

Cape Breton Island is shut tight for the season, so I’ll be hunkering down in Halifax for the next few days. If I’d arrived just a week or two earlier, there’d have been many more Maritime options.

I’m staying at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront, a terrific and underpriced new hotel with surprisingly good room service and a fun, lively bar. Best of all, it’s right on the waterfront, an irresistible part of...

How do you like your matzo balls? Light and floaty, or dense and sinky?

A visit to Stonestreet.

Alfred Rossino, proprietor of Alfred’s Tomato Pie, turns out beautiful thin-crust pizzas by hand, all the while singing along to recordings of Sinatra, opera, or doowop.

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In which the surroundings do not match the wine, and vice versa. Or maybe they do?

Hi all, I grew up in the Boston Area and they have a distinct flavor of Chinese food that I haven’t found in any area I have lived since..Atlanta, L.A. Chicago...I now live in the No. Va area and was wondering if anyone...

It’s been a couple of years, but I remember it as being a) a nightclub that b) can’t make decent tails and c) treats food as a distinctly mediocre afterthought. Something may have changed since then, but I...