Despite our late night out on the town, we still met at 7 am for breakfast on Saturday. Craziness, right?
I don’t have any food pics from Saturday until dinner. If you knew everything we did and saw, you’d understand why.
- Washington monument
- WWII memorial
- Reflecting pool
- Lincoln memorial
- Vietnam Veterans memorial
- Natural History museum
- American History museum
- Stars and Stripes Cafeteria lunch (veggie burger)
- National Air and Space museum
- White House
- Starbucks (yes, it gets it’s own bullet point)
After what felt like miles and miles of walking, we finally made it back to the hotel.
I had a Z bar and showered before dinner (there was a serious rain-induced afro hair sitch going on).
Being Halloween and all, we wanted to get away from some of the chaos (at least for dinner) so we went to Busboys & Poets, thanks to Quinn’s recommendation. It was great that they had both vegan and carnivorous options. I love hippie friendly places that I can take others to without worryign about what they will think of the menu.
Knowing football was going to be the focus of the night, I started with some cerveza :) Then for dinner I got the Baked Tofu Cake with a ginger-mushroom glaze, served with rice and julienne veggies.
WHOA! This was very salty. I loved it, but then, I love salt. I think the cook lost track of how many “shake shake shakes” he was doing… Aside from that, it was awwwwwesome. For reals, I polished off the ENTIRE plate along with the rice and veggies. The tofu cake was almost like a soufflé in texture and flavor. Obviously it was eggless, since it was vegan, but dang, it was tasty.
The rest of the entrees:
Cindy’s Angus Beef Burger with sautéed mushrooms, gorgonzola, lettuce, tomato and onion (and a side of sweet potato fries).
Seamus’ Homemade Meatloaf with a red wine sauce, served with mashed potatoes, sautéed mushrooms and spinach.
Kyle’s Angus Beef Burgers with cheddar cheese, avocado, sprouts, lettuce, tomato and onion (and a side of fresh fruit).
It was all fantastic.
The rest of the night was insane. We went back to Georgetown and saw the most crazy interesting members of society. Wow. Halloween brings out the freaks.
On Sunday, the rest of our friends had to head back home (to CA) so Kyle and I forged ahead with more touristy action.
As always, the day started with a Starbucks run. Then we made our way to the United States Holocaust museum which took several hours longer than I thought it would. Wow. No words. Next thing we knew it was 1:30 pm and we were starving our a$$es off.
I was beyond excited for lunch because I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about Java Green. Unfortunately, I was not on top of my game, and I failed to do appropriate research. CLOSED. What the eff? Apparently, they aren’t open on Sundays. I don’t know how I messed that up, but I was so sad. I had saved this restaurant for last, and now, because of my poor planning, I didn’t get to try it at all :( Guess I’ll have to return to D.C. again.
Oddly enough, back-up restaurants weren’t too plentiful in the area either because everything was closed! I guess that part of town is not exactly weekend friendly. My handy dandy bberry device came to the rescue, and after a quick google map search I discovered we were less than a mile from Whole Foods. Happy hippie.
I was excited to find some new dishes in the prepared foods section, including vegan “chick’n stir fry” with veggies and a chickpea, pepper, quinoa salad.
Of course, I added in the usual assorted yummies to fill the container out.
After lunch we decided to go back to the Georgetown area for some shopping and campus exploration. Just for fun…don’t get any ideas…
We stopped into a sports bar to rest our feet and watch football, and then got to-go dishes from Dean & Deluca before heading to the Amtrack station.
We got a pretty decent sized vat of the avocado/tomato dish, along with a smaller container of the pasta (seen in the corner), hummus, pitas, and fresh fruit.
This hummus was sooooo good. It was way more liquidy and had a nice spicy kick to it. I was half way through it when my stomach started giving me a bit of trouble (to put it in blog friendly terms). Hmmmm…
So I took a closer look.
Feta cheese!?! In hummus??? ACK! I stopped dead in my tracks and ate extra plain pitas to cushion the blow to my tum tum.
Thank goodness I noticed this before I did too much more damage. I felt pretty crappy for the next few hours, but I still had a red delicious mediocre apple and fruit salad for dessert.
There were some delays in our train departure, so we didn’t get back home until 1:45 am…so I am still playing catch up on my sleep, and Kyle is still coughing. We are a pair of invalids.
cheese snuck in? can you say a dairy allergic person’s worst nightmare? girl…i swear, if i dont cook it, I dont trust it. sorry bout your hummus tummy troubles!
yeah, it was a mini-disaster. my tummy was out of control mad at me. i downplayed it on the blog, but it was real bad. dairy allergy + 3 hour train ride = un-happy hippie
Oh honey, I’d be pissed about the hummus. Well, if we weren’t concerned with dairy, I’m sure that hummus + feta would be delicious. But no bueno for the tum! I imaging the bubbling and…well I’ll stop. I’m just sorry it happened to you!
I don’t know if there are Krogers in NYC, there probably aren’t, but Sabra is $2.99 right now. Thought of you today when I saw that, obviously. 🙂
Baked tofu cake?! Glorious!
This blog/you make me so excited about being a vegan/vegan food/eating better. I really enjoy this blog and just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate it! Also, I’m almost a nurse … I just took the NCLEX today so *fingers crossed*
Don’t forget to check yelp.com when you’re travelling (they don’t pay me to say that). It totally comes in handy for restaurants. I’ve made the hubby rip out of a parking lot if I’ve found a place but then read bad reviews. Life’s too short for a crappy meal! Plus sometimes they have the hours posted. Just sayin’ 🙂
Starbucks definitely deserves it’s own bullet point 😉
I love that you whipped out the bberry to detect a Whole Foods. True foodie right there!
Hope your tummy is recovered!
I’m so sorry JG was CLOSED! Ugh! Yes, you will have to come back to DC to try it.
You were definitely in G’town for Nightmare on M Street. It gets redonkulous Halloween night.
Overall it sounds like you had a fun trip! Sorry I missed you while you were here, but we’ll be in NYC soon, so maybe we can finally meet there!
Feta in hummus? bizzarre! That tofu cake looks like it made up for that though:)
I’m sorry, but feta in hummus is even stranger than hummus without tahini!!
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That’s incredible that you knew so quickly about the feta, seems like a strange ingredient to add to hummus….I hope it didn’t mess with you too badly.
I hate when restaurants close on Sundays! That’s the perfect day to go out to eat in my opinion.
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You were BUSY in DC! That tofu cake sounds pretty delish – I love my NaCl 🙂
Feta in hummus?! What?! That’s bizzario. Glad you cushioned with pita chips!
Hahaha Oh My God. If you only knew my history in life with the Air & Space Museum in D.C. it’s one for the books.
Your food intake was nothing short of spectacular except for the odd cheese in your hum dids. which is definitely a hum-don’t.
get them z’s done gurl
i don’t think i’ve ever commented before but i absolutely love your blog (food, humor, hippieness, hummus, etc)! i had to delurk after these dc posts though, because not only did i have dinner at neyla on friday night, but i live 2 blocks from the p street whole foods and had that same vegan chicken salad for dinner on sunday!
EWW feta cheese in hummus!? I am a cheese lover and that is still totally not cool. Sounds like the besssst trip girlie, I looove when places offer veggie and carnivore options it’s the best of both worlds 😀
Cheese in hummus?! Hummus is supposed to be vegan friendly! WTF I wouldn’t have thought to check either. Yea there were places I missed in San Fran I wanted to eat at.. Oh well next time right 😉
yea!!!! im sure you did great 🙂 how exciting. thanks for reading and leaving such a sweet comment!
haha, thanks for the commercial pitch tiffany! kidding. you are right though, im not sure HOW i managed to overlook the whole “closed sunday” thing…i guess it never even occured to me a place would close for an entire day of the week – and a weekend no less!!
yeahhhh. when are you coming to NYC? i will definitely be back to DC, though. kyle and i LOVED it there!
my tum usually isnt so responsive to things upsetting it. i tend to have a delayed sickness…but this was immediate. i looked at the ingreds, and kyle was like “oh no, whats in it?” and yeah, the train ride home was kinda crappy…
thanks jen! that is THE SINGLE craziest thing ive ever heard. WHAT A SMALL WORLD!?! wow. cant get over this!
i know!!! such a bummer. i have heard of HFCS tainting hummus before, but cheese!?! thats an abomination!
I went to Busboys and Poets last night! IT was so delicious. I tried the coconut tofu to start and then The Vegan (pizza). They were both huge delicious sized servings. thanks so much for the restaurant recommendation — fabulous atmosphere!