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Grapeseed Bistro
4865 Cordell Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 986-9592

Hours of Operation:
Monday thru Thursday: 5:00 - 10:00pm
Friday: 5:00 - 11:00pm
Saturday: 5:00 - 11:00pm
Sunday: 5:00 - 9:00pm

This place is right down the block from us (we're 4835, they're 4865.) so we've been here a couple times. We're always the shabbiest-dressed people in there, because, honestly, getting Kat to dress up for dinner is just a little tough.

The wine list is pretty good, and the preparations are not bad. As neighborhood bistros go, this isn't as good as Chez Papa near our old place on Potrero Hill, but it could be a lot worse. It's just that they take themselves a tiny bit too seriously, or that could just be the Bethesda "we're the young and affluent part of Washington, DC" scene, which is pretty thick around where we live.

Khan's Mongolian Barbecue, 500 E 78th St, Minneapolis

I'd never had mongolian barbecue before. The idea of piling up a bunch of meat in a bowl, taking it to some guy who throws it on a big hot-table and stirs it around, and then scoops it into another (I hope) bowl -- it ain't my cup of meat.

But, Choadbite said that it didn't suck completely, and that this place, Khan's, was "tolerable".

After last night, I know that if he had to, he could eat the raw ass of a german shepherd and call it tolerable. That's not a rimming reference.

Let's start with the smell of the place. Actually, let's not, because it's too nasty.