This morning I read a comment about playing the organ at Dahlgren Chapel on campus at Georgetown last Friday night in Matt's blog, and it reminded me that I hadn't written about our dinner at The Tombs, one of those quintessential campus bars and eateries.
The Tombs has been just a block from the main gate of GU for over forty years. What makes it interesting is that it's now owned by the Clyde's Restaurant Group, a management company that owns some of Washington's most exclusive, popular, and expensive restaurants like Clyde's, 1789, and Old Ebbitt Grill. Yet, The Tombs remains affordable and is packed (literally!) every night with GU students.
One descends a narrow staircase into the basement of an old building where The Tombs is located. Inside, the place is heavily decorated with a clubby, collegiate feel and dozens and dozens of rowing oars from college crew teams all over the country, and a large, fan-shaped display over the fireplace of oars from major championships won by GU women's crew teams.
We started with an order of some very nice, creamy crab-artichoke dip to share, served with a basket of crusty bread. Then Matt decided we had to follow English collegiate tradition wherein we had to eat four courses at dinner, because "only three courses is middle class," so I ended up with a side salad and he got a cup of chili before we had our "main course" sandwiches. He had the buffalo chicken sandwich with lots of Tabasco. I had a very good barbecued pulled pork sandwich that would be worth putting on the regular food rotation. Both sandwiches were served with fries, and mine had a little bowl of cole slaw as well. Matt had the peanut butter pie for dessert and I had a little ice cream sundae.
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