Actually, it’s less than three days away, but who is being pedantic…not me, especially not when there is gluttonous dosa and vada consumption to anticipate in my near future.
D.C.’s sixth meetup will occur this Saturday at Amma’s Vegetarian, in Georgetown at 1 o’clock isharp. Since none of you read that, I’ll restate it, this time with formatting:
WHERE: Amma’s Vegetarian Kitchen, 3291 M St. NW, Washington, DC 20007, 202-625-6625
WHEN: Saturday, 1pm
WHY: Because you asked for it!
Lakshmi, MuraliMannered, Ashu, Arun, Coffeeface, Portmanteau, Sriram and at least three others have all tentatively RSVP’d– what about you? For all of you who are thinking, “There’s always next time”, don’t. There may not be. Besides, brunch this weekend sounds enticing, doesn’t it? Yum. Carpe dosa!
Dosa for President.
That picture makes me so hungry. Too bad I don’t live anywhere near DC. However, a trip home is coming up soon. Yay!
I’m still here… just enjoying from a safe distance:) I’d love a NYC meetup the third week of July. I’m being shameless… July is my next trip out to NYC.
Can somebody please please please put up a new post so that I don’t have to see a giant dosa leering at me everytime I refresh the page? There’s only so much taunting I can take.
I think there’s a secret ploy to plumpen everyone up. Everytime I see that pic I’m shoving food in my mouth.
yes. i will be there. yes, indeed.
Gawd. I want dosa. And vada.
Dammit, Anna…do you know how cruel that picture is?
Man……that “Dosha” and “chammanthi” looks yummy and I feel funny in my tummy!!
We talking International Dosa Championships? Kindly to bring it please :p Mani’s Matunga Mumbai.
the unlimited South Indian Thali at Mani’s yum yum yum yum 🙂
What is it about my hosting a brunch on a SATURDAY, IN THE CITY IN WHICH I LIVE which would make you ask such a thing? Do you work at 1pm every Saturday, because I don’t. Is it considered “travel” to go two miles? Come on.
I’m getting really sick of the misogyny, trollery, hostility et al.
Readers love meetups. I try and host them when I can, because I love this community. Like most normal, mobile people, I travel. So, if I know I’ll be in NYC at some later date or whenever I go HOME to Northern California, there is a meetup. Ennis lives in Chicago but is originally from New York. He does the same thing I do and hosts meetups in both places whenever it’s possible. Why don’t you torment him about his work schedule or itinerary? I know, the fact that he has a penis makes it far less fun to do so.
I’m not sure what your point is, but I don’t appreciate whatever it might be. Nor do I care for your past commentary regarding my weight; if you think a size 8 is obese, you have issues.
I almost wrote in to cancel, because the Air Show & Joint Services Open house is in town this weekend, but then I relaized I could go Sunday as well. (let me know if anyone’s interested in going Sunday … it’ll be Legen (wait for it …) dary!)
So I think I’m in for Saturday! Have a bone to pick with you about one of your recent posts too, put up yer dukes! :p
masala dosa, blow-by-blow: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gablcf7ki2A and idli’s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwocphM_w4s
ummm ‘Curious’…(-_^)
Anna, I am reminded of Mani’s thanks to you and Shodan and it is making me damn hungry 😀
Coming from Sie und Wir, you might want to watch what you say. She has a job right now, but trolling might lead us to ask you the same question.
Extended contemplation of above food pr0n made me realize that it’s not masala dosas, but plain dosas with really good sambar that I love. Without a sambar made to perungaayam perfection, idlis and dosas are lost.
sigh I do love me home cooking and my amma’s vegetarian kitchen. sigh Have fun at the meetup!
Can anyone interested pop by? Or is this mutiny by invitation only… L. Rajiva
lila: all are welcome. this will be my fourth. i think i get a medal or a cookie.
Mmm…food pr0n.
I wish I could be there, y’all. Sadly, I’ll miss yet another dosa-fest, thanks to a company day on Saturday. But when we do one in JUNE, I’m totally there. I will take assurance in the idea that it cannot possibly be as twisted as the last one without me there, too. 😀
Mutineers, consider this a challenge. I want to see live posts from the Meetup, and immediately after, and references to dirty inside jokes, etc. Anna, Jay, Sriram, y’all hear me?
Vicariously, by proxy…it’s the only way for me to live.
This is very, very true. These have never been “invite only” joints. Lurkers, commenters, trolls, smurfs, unsuitablegals…all are welcome.
Ha. Try you get to live. That’s what you get, snuff-star.
I’ve hosted meetups in three different cities as well: San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Stop hating.
If it’s even remotely close to true, I’s purty jealous.
i might have to scope out m street earlier in the day for an escape route. just in case.
I’ll be there. Looking forward to it.
I was glad to see someone mentioned the great House of Dosas in Long Island. It’s out of the way for non-Long Islanders, but worth a trip if you are ever in the area.
I’ve hosted meetups in three different cities as well: San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Stop hating.
So Ennis…when’s the next Midwest-friendly meetup? 🙂
after salivating for hours at that dosa picture i showed it to my office buddies and promised them an enchanted indian treat along the lines of a large, tasty, masala crepe. we trooped down to ‘india quality’ restaurant at noon-sharp but alas there was no dosa. ‘only north indian food sir.’ oh, when will we unite? the lassi was a hit though. i am sugared and feeling very northern.
Ok guys – wasn’t going to mention it – but couldn’t hold back – I’m just back from a nearby ‘South Indian’ restaurant, where, to the incredulous astonishment of the maitre-d’ – I ordered dosa for lunch. He tried his best to steer me to the buffet – ‘not worth it at this time, Sir’, but I wasn’t swayed. Dosa it was going to be, and dosa it was. And when he saw that there was no changing my mind, he had the nicest, 18″ long, paper-thin dosa made. Just for me, and with ‘unlimited’ sambhar and ‘chutney’ from the buffet thrown in (on the house)! Of course, I ate it with my fingers. And for his kindness, good humor and good service, I later tipped him 50%, a record of sorts, for me.
So this is what food pr0n does for you – you end up paying big money for the real thing. (just like with the other ‘regular’ pr0n? :))
Let’s see how many families we can drive out this time…
Also, someone mentioned that there was a good place near College Park (a sort of suburb of DC). Yes, the Udipi in Langley Park has a DE-licious buffet if you can make it out there. Best. Vada. Ever. But Amma’s feels more like home-cooking:) Can’t wait!
Back from Madras Mahal for lunch and I have to report that I am still a Sarvanaa person.. Its the chutneys people! MM just did not cut it.
I love how so many went out and ate dosas today. Don’t think I will do the same for the wholewheat naan though.
Done.
Just back from Madras Pavilion, the tomato chutney was awesome!! 🙂
ahh… those unsuitable gals..
I hate you. HATE.
I was there (MP, Austin) with Priyavadan :). Dosa was yum.
Ennis: You should host meet up in Chicago this weekend.
hey guys, i’m sorry but i’ll have to bow out of this one. Family calls.
ANNA, you are wonderful, I say do your thang, girl! (I really did say “thang” in my head when I typed that)
Curious, :P. Way to sip on the Haterade.
Since it doesn’t look like there’s any remote possibility of a Bay Area meet up anytime soon, I vote that the NYC meet-up happen in mid-July so that I can come 😉 Unless my online personality is so scary that I would scare people away 🙁
Hey Aaliyah, thanks! I feel like all the best southie restaurants are in the South Bay 🙁 (quite a drive for a public-transit bound East Bay’er like myself!)
absolutgcs, I usually eat at Udupi Palace, and I like it. I used to also like Atithi (it was on Dwight/Telegraph near Boca Burger in Berkeley – not as good as Udupi, but the auntie was so cute!) but they closed after a year or something. So sad, I used to have Sunday brunch in college throughout my sophomore year with all my girlfriends. A thali with dosa, idli, sambar, veggie squares — I loved it!
It’s not that the Bay Area doesn’t do good dosa, it’s that SF doesn’t do good dosa. Now that I think of it, I can’t even think of a good south Indian restaurant in SF County. I can never get my city-based friends to come to the East Bay for Udupi Palace. They don’t know what they’re missing! 🙁
So I went to Dosa the week it opened (since it boasts that it is the only South Indian restaurant in SF), and my review is as follows: DON’T GO! It’s not worth your palate or money! It is hands down the worst South Indian restaurant I’ve ever been to, and I have been to quite a number of crappy restaurants. They’re trying to do some kind of overpriced yuppie fusion junk, and I think they’re just ruining good food. They even ruined the sambar. How do you ruin sambar!? The dosas don’t taste quite right, and they have a lot of strange north Indian dishes that they also don’t cook well. I’ve eaten there twice and have never found anything I liked on the menu. I feel like you can’t name your restaurant for a dish you’ve murdered. I am also suspicious of restaurants that use dairy products in their South Indian cooking or who offer almost exclusively north Indian deserts (kulfi, gulab jaman, rass malai) on their desert menu.
Sorry, that was a bit heated. Really, Dosa (SF) sucks. I wouldn’t even send people I hate there — I could never inflict the pain that is their cooking on anyone.
camille, have you tried pasand? is it any good? never been there myself (new to this part of the world), but someone mentioned it a little while ago. but i agree, east bay and sfo suck for south indian food. each time i crave dosas, i drive for an hour to the gasp suburblands.
I used to go to Pasand back, back, back in the day before they had, uhh, all those legal problems. Friday nights used to be a madhouse there, complete with a sitar player (usually Habib Khan when I went). The dosa’s were rubbish, the sambhar was blech and the portions were small. Not surprisingly, Pasand gets murdered on Yelp and the food is a secondary topic.
Forget the imitators, go to Udupi!
bytewords, the Pasand in Berkeley is no good. This is where my fam used to go before Udupi Palace opened (and before the owners were busted for being sex-trafficking sadistic assholes), and it wasn’t good then, either 🙂
There is a Pasand in the South Bay — I think in Mountain View? maybe in Cupertino? — which seems unrelated to the one in Berkeley and is aight. Not brilliant, but aight.
Oh, and Madras (which is no longer open, I think?) in Berkeley is also no good. I’m with NVM, Udupi Palace is the only option in the East Bay 🙁
dude, this is terrible :(. so other than udupi and temperamental byteword’s kitchen who can make only rava idlis, not one other place?
Not in the East Bay, no 🙁
This is where my anguish and melancholy longing for dosa comes from 🙁
What’s that expression? Eating dosa with a knife and fork is like showering with a raincoat on…
Camille, We tried out Woodlands in Fremont last weekend ( Near Bombay Garden and in the same strip mall as Spice hut)
I had a major craving for good South Indian food ( I get a craving once every 3 months that must be fulfilled!)
Had the thali and it was excellent ( Side note: Why , oh why, must decent Southie restaurants ruin the thali by adding one gratuitous and poorly executed Northie dish ? This time it was poorly executed ‘channa’).Another family member had a dosa that was superb.
Like you , I also mourned the fact that from the east bay one has to trek all the way to the South Bay to get a decent rasam fix .But I heart woodlands
I am IN 🙂
ALBA ROCKS. And thanks for a grea meetup people.
have you people no shame? FLASHDANCE!
🙂 Next time you put up a picture of dosa on the front page, make sure there are a few flies circulating around the sambar cup.
Wait …. so was this today?
I keed – the company was great, food was good, the service was friendly (well, they did beat one of us up – but only one!), and the babies – they were loud!