The Lauren, A Condominium
Dupont Circle Neighborhood NEWS
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2007
From: DCCANEWS" <dccanews@dupontcircle-dcca.com>

DINING IN DC—APRIL 9TH AT THE RUSSIA HOUSE

RESTAURANT & LOUNGE


The topic for the April 9th membership meeting is "Dining Out in Washington". Our speaker will be Phyllis Richman, who will talk about A Half Century of DC Dining. We will be meeting at 7:30 pm at The Russia House Restaurant & Lounge at 1800 Connecticut Avenue NW (the northwest corner of Connecticut and Florida Avenues).

(In addition to hosting the meeting, Russia House's Aaron McGovern is putting together a special, two-course buffet menu. HOWEVER, WE ALREADY HAVE FILLED ALL OF THE SEATS FOR DINNER.)

Phyllis Richman served as the restaurant critic for The Washington Post for almost a quarter of a century and as its food editor for eight years. She also has written restaurant guidebooks, articles for various magazines, and three mysteries The Butter Did It, Murder on the Gravy Train, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Ham. Ms. Richman is a native Washingtonian and longtime Dupont Circle resident. She graduated from Brandeis University and did graduate work in city planning at the University of Pennsylvania and in sociology at Purdue University.

The Russia House was established more than a decade ago to promote East-West business development and continues to be a resource in understanding Russia's evolving political, economical, and cultural environment. It also served as a private restaurant and lounge until the spring of 2003, when our host, Aaron McGovern (a Washington metropolitan area resident for more than 30 years and now lives in Dupont Circle) and his partner, Arturas "Jeepo" Vorobjovas, opened it to the public. DCCA will be dining and meeting in the upstairs lounge, an opulent room with damask-covered walls and Russian paintings. Aaron says that the interior was done in 1991 by Russian architects and interior designers to mimic the way the czars lived.

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