Restaurants

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Friday, March 9, 2007

Restaurants

Restaurants previously reviewed by Eve Zibart:

Addis Cafe

401 N. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg; 301-740-8111. Entrees $4.50-$12.

This is real home cooking: family recipes, family spices, mom-and-pop chefs and a room full of armchairs. (And desserts, the one thing kids always dream of.) But this is Ethiopian home style, and although the menu is short, the food makes many downtown joints look sloppy. First-rate collard greens, lentils, split peas, cabbage and potatoes, homemade clabbered cheese and chopped salad -- and that's just the veggie special. On weekends, Naomi and Jonas

Todd add the spicy chicken-and-egg doro wat and chopped beef kitfo

to the list. And make sure you

taste the coffee. You can sleep in tomorrow.

Cafe Panache

42125 Broadlands Center Plaza, Ashburn; 703-723-1424. Entrees $16-$22.

As befits the name, this promising young restaurant is good-looking, smartly concise and often sophisticated: Its arugula risotto with

portobellos and fennel-spiked


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