03/12/10
Irish Medicine
Your St. Pat's Weekend Survival Guide
St. Pat's might be next Wednesday, but the celebrations start now. Which means one morning this weekend (or maybe two), you might not be feeling quite like yourself. And while you have an assortment of ancient cures and modern miracles at the ready, nothing restores you to glory like good old-fashioned meat, cheese, eggs and maybe some more meat. Here, six of the best options in town...
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Hangover Special at Founding Farmers
You've never met a hangover that cheese couldn't kill. Foggy Bottom's brunch mecca offers up a three-egg
pimento cheese omelet, topped with a scoop of chili, onions...and more cheese. While you're at it, order up
a side of thick-cut grilled bacon, glazed with black pepper and maple, BBQ sauce, Buck's hot sauce or sweet
and sour. You know, for the extra protein.
- 411:
- Mon-Fri, 8-11am, Sat-Sun, 10am-2pm, Founding Farmers, 1924 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 202-822-8783, see the menu
IRON MAN
Sunday Morning Kill-It-Skillet at Nage
The good: chorizo, bacon, fries and a fried egg, all stacked on a bed of truffled mac and cheese. The
better: unlimited Bloody Marys or Mimosas for $15. Basically, this one-skillet dish is what an enterprising
cattle driver might have cooked up after a night of too much hooch on the trail...assuming he had truffles
and vodka on hand.
- 411:
- Sundays, 10:30am-2:30pm, Nage, 1600 Rhode Island Ave NW, 202-448-8005, see the menu
ERIN GO GAUL
Truffled Croque-Madame at Birch & Barley
Amidst all the green beer, you might want to look south, to France. Or north, to Canada. Or to both—at the
beer-centric Birch & Barley, they sandwich Canadian bacon and truffled cheese between slices of French
toast, and top it with a fried egg. We hear it's Sarko's go-to after a long night out with Carla...in
Montreal.
- 411:
- Sundays, 11am-8pm, Birch & Barley, 1337 14th St NW, 202-567-2576, see the menu
44 MAGNUM
Obama's Loco Moco at Créme Café
We're not sure what the President has to do with two over-easy eggs, two beef patties and two scoops of
rice, all topped with brown gravy. But it sure couldn't hurt his approval ratings. The Southern-fried U
Street brunch favorite put this hangover cure on the menu for Obama's inauguration, but it's still available
off-menu. And you will be humbled by the task of eating this thing.
- 411:
- Sat-Sun, 10am-3pm, Créme Café, 1322 U St NW, 202-234-1885
LOW COUNTRY
Eggs Acadiana at Acadiana
We promised never to discuss what happened that long-ago night in the French Quarter, but as you recall, the
food the next day really did the trick. In that same spirit, Acadiana brings you two poached eggs over
Louisiana crawfish crabcakes, topped with tasso ham hollandaise. Because ham is the one thing your
hollandaise has always been missing.
- 411:
- Sundays, 11am-2:30pm, Acadiana, 901 New York Ave NW, 202-408-8848, see the menu
HASH 4077
Hash and Eggs With Béarnaise at Vermilion
We have it on good authority that meat—in the form of pork shoulder—is currently corning in the kitchen
at Vermilion. It makes its brunch debut this Saturday as a hash mixed with potatoes, garlic and spices,
pan-fried and topped with over-easy eggs and béarnaise sauce. We suggest pairing it with a creamy
stout—it is a holiday, after all.
- 411:
- Sat-Sun, 11am-2:30pm, Vermilion, 1120 King St, Alexandria, VA, 703-684-9669, see the menu
Only what you need to know.