Afterwords Cafe, Washington, D.C.

My friend Matt from North Carolina came to D.C. for the weekend to visit all of us and ring in the new year. He got in last night around ten. Rather than cooking dinner at home, and after drinking a couple of bottles of wine, we decided to walk up to Dupont Circle to one of the few late night cafes still open to find a little late night supper. Along the way, we picked up Robert, and he joined us for dinner at KramerBook's Afterwords Cafe.

Well, Robert decided to drink dinner and had two Irish coffees. I wasn't really hungry and debated not eating anything at all, but went ahead and ordered some nachos. Well, what they call nachos. They were okay and I'm sure the locals love it, but I found the sun-dried tomato "salsa" and the black beans underneath to be too sweet, and the so-called jalapeño pepper slices were about as hot as a bread and butter pickle. I only ate some, so Matt finished them off after his dinner.



Matt had the lobster, asparagus and mascarpone ravioli. These were interesting little hand-made packets made in parsley pasta and sauced with a mascarpone cheese sauce. With his dinner, he had some kind of beer.



After that, he had a slice of goober pie, a rather unusual but traditional Southern peanut butter pie topped with chocolate and made in a graham cracker crust.