So long folks! I'm off for the next week...no regular posts. Maybe some insights and restaurant reviews from our destination, but we'll see. Have a safe and enjoyable week.
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Before I go, I want to encourage you to visit a restaurant here DC. Yesterday, for lunch, in the rain, we were finally able to get into Matchbox without waiting!!! Wad a great lunch too.
Matchbox713 H Street NW
Washington DC 20001
202.289.4441
Matchbox is a tiny space in Chinatown, serving pizza, sliders, steaks, sandwiches and salads. I've been hearing about Matchbox since it opened but each time I've made my way there, a long was waiting outside. I'm usually not a fan of lines, so I would just stroll on to the next destination, but Sunday afternoon in the rain was the perfect time to go.
The restaurant is just 15 feet wide and 3, 3 1/2 floors high. We were brought up to the top level and pulled up to our table to review the menu. I really didn't need to, I could tell what I wanted by checking out the other tables. I want mini-burgers and I want pizza!
The mini-burgers are on the appetizer menu and labeled 3.6.9 Mini Burgers. Savory little burgers on a toasted brioche bun with french fried onions. We ordered ours with smoked gouda. Delish. We ordered three, so we could save room for pizza. Easily, ordering the 3 and just the 3, you'd have a nice lunch. But since we were splitting everything, the 3 were a great start. I piled my little burger high with the onions and dug in. Totally satisfying!
Then arrived our pizza. sticking with the beef theme we started, we ordered the Meatball Pizza. Meatballs, bacon, cheese, garlic and a 'zesty' tomato sauce on a crisp crust from a wood fired oven. Crisp and chewy and a little smokey. YUM. The meatballs were a tad dry, but they held up pretty well on the pizza. The garlic could have been distributed a little better, as well as the dash of red pepper flakes.
Overall, the first lunch was great. I look forward to heading back and enjoying more burgers and trying other pizzas! And they have a fun beer list.
Shapes. Shapes. Shapes...I felt like I was in Super Mario Land.
This is the bigger fountain show, but not the show with music. The music show is smaller, but still really a lot of fun! A Sousa March is always fun.
A Cotton Flower!
Mmmm, beer! HOPS.
Another Cotton Flower....so pretty!
This isn't a cotton flower...it's an okra flower...
Inside the Conservatory.
Crotons!
Caladiums!
J-lo will be choreographing a dance in this space...
There is about 3-6 inches of water on the floor. Could be very interesting!!!
The water lilies...another site not to miss.
More caladium. This is like the one I have at home!
Random. There was a room tucked in the back filled with colored glass pumpkins. These were the only ones I saw in the gardens.
A cactus named for me!
This is my backyard...someday.
A Hobbit's House.
So long folks! I'm off for the next week...no regular posts. Maybe some insights and restaurant reviews from our destination, but we'll see. Have a safe and enjoyable week.
