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A Foretaste to the 2005

Capclave Guide to Restaurants within 20 Minutes by Foot

by Paul Parsons and Aly Parsons

Silver Spring has restaurants for almost every palate and pocketbook. You need not starve. A more extensive restaurant guide will be available at the con. To whet your appetite, we, the Parsons, provide a sampling of the culinary delights of downtown Silver Spring. Here are a few of our personal favorites.

	Addis Ababa -- Inexpensive Ethiopian food: spicy, spicier, spiciest. Communal dining. Eating with your fingers is proper etiquette. Sit in the open air upstairs if weather permits.
	301-589-1400
	Major Credit Cards Accepted
	F, Sa, Su: 11:30 am-12:00 am

	Bombay Gaylord -- Good variety of Indian food. Cheap lunchtime buffet. Usually quiet atmosphere. For those who don't like their food too spicy hot, more choice than usual.
	301-565-2528
	American Express, Mastercard, Visa
	F: 11:30 am-3:00 pm; 5:00 pm-9:30 pm; Sa, Su: 12:00 pm-3:00 pm; 5:00 pm-9:30pm

	The Brass Hen. Ground floor of City Place. Steam table fried chicken and fish. Cheap, greasy, and good. Paul recommends the greens, too.
	City Place is an enclosed mall, open from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 6:00 on Sundays, just up the street from the Capclave hotel.

	Cubano's -- One of the best restaurants in Silver Spring, and one of the most attractive. Caribbean food, mostly Cuban. Not a good place for large groups. Moderately expensive. Paul recommends everything.
	301-563-4020
	American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
	F: 11:30 am-10:00 pm; Sa, Su: 1:00 pm-10:00 pm

	Eggspectation -- Noisy and semi-chaotic. Variety of reasonably good food. Breakfast all day. Moderate.
	301-585-1700
	Major Credit Cards Accepted
	F: 8:00 am-10:00 pm; Sa, 7:00 am-10:00 pm; Su: 7:00 am-8:00 pm

	Half Moon BBQ -- Good barbeque and burgers.
	301-585-1290
	No credit cards Accepted
	F, Sa: 5:30 pm-1:45 am;Su closed
	NOTE: Live Entertainment

	Kefa Cafe -- coffee shop. Great coffee. Luscious cakes. Limited menu but excellent quality sandwiches, quiche, and pastries in a friendly, cheerful ambience.
	301-589-9337
	Major Credit Cards Accepted
	F: 7:00 am-6:00 pm; Sa: 8:00 am-5:00 pm; Su closed

	Mandalay -- recently moved to Silver Spring from Greenbelt, this is an excellent Burmese restaurant. Paul and Aly have enjoyed every dish they've tried thus far, from appetizers through desserts.
	301-585-0500
	Mastercard, Visa
	F, Sa: 11:30 am-3:00 pm; 5:00 pm-10:30 pm; Su: 12:00 pm-3:00 pm; 5:00 pm-10:00pm

	Oriental East -- A Chinese grandma seated with us confided to Aly, "Chinese chefs eat here." One of the best dim sum restaurants in the Washington area. On Saturdays and Sundays, expect to wait in line. If you're there when the dim sum carts aren't going around, you can ask for the dim sum menu. Also has other Chinese food, but go for the dim sum.
	301-608-0030
	Major Credit Cards Accepted
	F, Sa: 11:00 am-11:00pm; Su: 11:00 am-10:00 pm

	Tastee Diner -- Formerly on the site of the Discovery Building, this American diner is the transplanted but still-beating heart of Silver Spring. Diner food. Breakfast all day. Inexpensive.
	301-589-8171
	American Express, Mastercard, Visa
	OPEN 24/7.

	Thai Derm -- Good Thai food in a pleasant setting. When available, their sticky rice with mango dessert is a marvel.
	301-589-5341
	Discover, Mastercard, Visa
	F: 11:00 am-10:00 pm; Sa: 12:00 pm-9:30 pm; Su: 5:00 pm-9:30 pm
	NOTE: Wheelchair Hostile

Paul Parsons, Master Chef at the Parsonage, did not write THE HAUNTED HAGGIS AND OTHER GASTRONOMICAL GROTESQUES. Aly Parsons, a picky consumer, appreciates all manner of foods with flavors other than salt. They are long-time residents of Silver Spring.

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