[speaker002:] well where what what's good in Washington DC to eat
[speaker001:] well I think we're very fortunate because um in the past twenty years Washington has really developed a a good number of quality restaurants um mostly although you have your normal continental we've gotten the excellent excellent ethnic restaurants um we have Ethiopian restaurants we have Latin American restaurants um you know besides the normal range of French and Italian and things like that so uh we try to experience because I am Italian background and my husband is Chinese we really try to uh experience quite a bit of difference in cooking styles
[speaker002:] well you have a lot to thank your husband for noodles
[speaker001:] oh God yeah but
[speaker002:] I live in a great place I live in Berkeley California in what they call the gourmet ghetto it's uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it's it's it's got every well it's it's a very uh polyglot community you know got every every kind of ethnic background you can think of but
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] just up the street is one of one of one of only two five star restaurants on the east coast less than a block I mean on the West Coast I think there's only like four in the US but
[speaker001:] oh my well what uh-huh is it continental
[speaker002:] uh well no it's French actually
[speaker001:] it it is French uh-huh
[speaker002:] it she uh yeah yeah the the name of it is Chez Penny you may have heard of it but they uh they they they specialize in flower salads actually
[speaker001:] uh-huh and I'm sure it's quite I'm sure it's quite pricey
[speaker002:] and they got you know well actually it's like thirty five dollars for the meal and that's you know and each night is a different that that there's never the same meal twice
[speaker001:] oh so it's a price fixed and you go in for the menu that they have
[speaker002:] they yeah and you go in you know and of course it's booked for months on end
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but they also have a um a uh I understand a buffet or something that you know people can just walk in
[speaker001:] oh that's interesting uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know combination this is like during the day
[speaker001:] what kind of food do you like
[speaker002:] oh good
[speaker001:] any specific any specific time
[speaker002:] oh no no no I'm one of those people that as long as it's good it really doesn't matter
[speaker001:] and and you're adventuresome
[speaker002:] oh extremely yeah I was one of those kids that would go into a menu go into a restaurant when I was a kid and and and would not order unless I had never had it before
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh uh-huh well we're very fortunate we have we have two sons and ever since they were even even very little they we very adventuresome I mean they tried frogs legs an and they tried rabbit and all sorts of things so uh we've never had to have the problem of picky eaters
[speaker002:] well it's oh I was a I was a picky eater when I was real young but then I got to the point where I discovered that you know
[speaker001:] and um-hum
[speaker002:] there was something other than than Twinkies in the world
[speaker001:] oh well they they've been they've been adventuresome since they were I mean even preschoolers they'll they tried anything
[speaker002:] oh that's great
[speaker001:] yeah so um it's been fun it's been great and uh of course in the area of Maryland where we are of course crabs are one of our big delicacies
[speaker002:] oh I know I know I I used to live back in North Carolina and I remember going to up to to Richmond James River and we'd get and and flounder you don't we don't get flounder out here on the West Coast
[speaker001:] and uh-huh uh-huh oh I know but you get some other kinds of fish that are just wonderful I know that you have abalone out there
[speaker002:] yeah that's that's true that's true
[speaker001:] and fresh I there's nothing to rely I mean fresh abalone is wonderful
[speaker002:] yeah it really is a lot of work but it's it's good really is
[speaker001:] yes yes but uh you know Baltimore also is a wonderful eating city
[speaker002:] uh yeah Baltimore Baltimore I saw a movie about Baltimore recently Abalon that's right
[speaker001:] I'm okay okay and Baltimore's got some great dining areas it's got little ethnic communities little pockets of ethnicity in the city and it's absolutely marvelous the it's sort of one of these underrated cities and they're some great restaurants there
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um it there are mostly um besides the little ethnic things you've got your great seafood places and there's one great German restaurant there called Hausners the owners of which um traveled all over the world and this place is room after room of art so that you feel you're in a museum except it's completely over done and it's it's a real place to bring people for something to talk about and it's a very German restaurant they've got the whole gamut of German dishes
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] so uh when we go out I guess we look as you said you like to try when you were young something different we try to go out for either two things something to make it a festive occasion and to try something very unusual or else we go back to a few of our uh for Chinese restaurants we usually follow the chef if we know the chef's in a restaurant and what their specialties are so there are certain Chinese restaurants this is something I learned from my husband where you only eat certain things
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] and uh other things that they don't produce in you know in quality but other aspect other Chinese restaurants you would eat other things so uh we we do tend to eat out at least once a week sometimes more although with two sons in college now that may be it may be a little less
[speaker002:] yes well uh uh of of course without two two sons it's it's it's also easier to go out isn't it I mean
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] really you know I mean
[speaker001:] it certainly is so uh what's what's your major consideration when you go out to dinner
[speaker002:] well uh basically it it's it's it's it's good food and and uh price comes into it some you know not not
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah which would so it's fun to find good food for a reasonable price too
[speaker002:] yeah well that's what's really great about where I live here it's in in an area that's within you know four or five blocks there must be forty restaurants I'm not kidding it's just uh
[speaker001:] um-hum oh that's oh well how tempting
[speaker002:] it's in you know it's just just down from the from um University of California Berkeley and uh and it's
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and that that's what's good about it is that the the the the prices are extremely reasonable and the competition is so keen that the food really is good so you know you
[speaker001:] yeah yeah we have to we have to drive any restaurant where we're not in walking area of any even a store so we do have to drive but within you know within a um fifteen twenty minute drive we have a whole span of of restaurants that we can chose from and unless you go into downtown Washington and the elegant areas uh even the some of the areas in Washington you can get very reasonable and very tasty meals and uh
[speaker002:] one one more time what was the name of that restaurant in Baltimore the German
[speaker001:] Hausners
[speaker002:] Hausners I'll
[speaker001:] Hausners H A U S N E R S um-hum
[speaker002:] have to remember that well Linda it's been a pleasure talking to you
[speaker001:] yeah if you ever get out there well I enjoyed talking with you too all right bye-bye
[speaker002:] all right you have a good one bye-bye