Duplex Diner, Washington, D.C.

Last night, Ian and I made our way up to Adams-Morgan to have our Cinco de Mayo Mexican dinner at Lauriol Plaza, thinking that at 10:30 the Friday night dinner crowds would have thinned out. We were wrong. Lauriol Plaza was absolutely jam packed with people and there were huge crowds in the bar waiting for tables as well as lines out on the sidewalk still just trying to get in to the establishment. Thinking the noise and crowds (not to mention wait) were not for us, we continued walking up the street and came upon the Duplex Diner.

Duplex is always fun, though I've always thought that it was more of a "gayified" version of diner food. It has a bar and the menu is all rather too upscale to qualify it as a true diner.

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we shared an appetizer of grilled vegetable and pepper jack cheese quesadillas. The vegetables were actually quite tasty and had a nice grill flavor without being smoky or burnt. For our main courses, Ian had chicken fingers and fries and I had their classic meatloaf (I like the meatloaf itself but I could do without the big topping of tomatoes on top) with green beans and some wonderful, rich, garlic mashed potatoes. For dessert, we split an absolutely enormous brownie sundae with a cake-sized layer of brownie topped by four big scoops of vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and several cherries. Even half of it was more than we needed for a single serving!









We had a very personable waiter who had just finished taking a six hour constitutional law final over at Catholic and his brain was a little fried and ditzy. He was amusing, though.