Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The fried food joint has been open in the Bowie Plaza for several weeks. Have you given them a try?
In more exciting restaurant news for Bowie, Freestyle Fish 'n Chicken is now open in Bowie Plaza. The restaurant, located at 6946 Laurel Bowie Rd., offers a while variety of sandwiches, chicken, fish and other fried foods with an average price ranging form $6 to $19 for a full meal. Specialty Chi-town sandwiches include the catfish fillet, the trout fillet, the grilled chicken breast, and chicken or steak burritos. Diners can also select full fish dinners of tilapia, catfish, whiting, and various types and sizes of shrimp. Dinners include fries bread and coleslaw. Not looking for a full dinner? You can also buy fish by the piece. If chicken is more your thing, Freestyle has a wide variety of options from chicken wing dinners, chicken …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Eight days of barbecue festivities wind through DC, MD and VA.
With the new year comes a new cycle of “weeks”: DC Restaurant Week, Bethesda Restaurant Week and now Meat Week. The fourth annual meat extravaganza begins Sunday and continues through Feb. 3, featuring the DMV’s most popular barbecue restaurants, food truck face offs and lots and lots of sweet, smoky meat. Events begin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Rockville’s Urban Bar-B-Que. For eight days festivities will wind through DC and Virginia suburbs. Some host venues will be offering Meat Week specials. DC’s Meat Week began with a meet up in Rockville, DC Meat Week founder Mike Bober, of the Capital Spice Blog, told Del Ray Patch. For more information on 2013’s Meat Week, including a list of vendors, check out the event Facebook page here. Several of …
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
See where Washington, DC, ranks on the New York Times annual list of places to visit.
The New York Times has released its list of the top 46 places to visit in 2013 worldwide, and sitting among tropical getaways and exotic locals is Washington, DC—but the reason DC makes the list might surprise you. The area’s food scene, not its world-class museums, place DC at No. 44 on The Times' list. “A new food scene to welcome a renewed administration,” reads the title on DC’s listing. After years of snarky restaurant competition between the cultural capital of the United States and the country’s actual capital city, has an olive branch been extended? Times writer Ann Mah points out several DC establishments, including Northeast’s new Union Market, Mike Isabella’s Italian restaurant Graffito, H Street’s Toki Underground and Dupont …
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2:16 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
My mom tried this place today and couldn't stop raving about the fish and the gizzards. And she's pretty picky about how her fish is fried. Really generous portions, too. Can't wait to give it a try. more ›