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Get to know D.C. Talk a walk on U Street, taste mambo sauce (available at any of our fine carryouts), and check out the city's musical traditions -- jazz and funky, drum-driven go-go.
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On the east side, carryouts, food carts and small restaurants imbue Spanish Harlem with some of its Caribbean and Latin American flavor.
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It doesn't have any hotels, and most of its restaurants are mom-and-pop carryouts.
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Microbreweries sell to the public by one or more of the following methods: the traditional three-tier system (brewer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer); the two-tier system (brewer acting as wholesaler to retailer to consumer); and, directly to the consumer through carryouts and/or on-site tap-room or restaurant sales.
A Pet Peeve 2009
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The decline is all the more remarkable because Americans now spend almost 40 percent of their food dollar away from home in restaurants, carryouts and fast-food chains.
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony in April 2010 attracted not only D.C. Council members Yvette Alexander and Kwame Brown but also then-Mayor Adrian Fenty and his chief rival for the job, Council Chairman fought for sound-bite time to praise this full-service, sit-down steakhouse in Ward 7, a neighborhood better known for its fast-food joints and carryouts sealed tight behind bullet-proof glass.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Tim Carman 2011
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Fried chicken dinner with all the trimmings, 6 to 7: 30 p.m. Music by Daugherty Bros., 7: 30 to 10: 30 p.m. ($25 per couple; carryouts, $8; dance only, $6).
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Fried chicken dinner with all the trimmings, 6 to 7: 30 p.m. Music by Daugherty Bros., 7: 30 to 10: 30 p.m. ($25 per couple; carryouts, $8; dance only, $6).
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Fried chicken dinner with all the trimmings, 6 to 7: 30 p.m. Music by Daugherty Bros., 7: 30 to 10: 30 p.m. ($25 per couple; carryouts, $8; dance only, $6).
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Mitch Daniels signed into law bills to expand Sunday hours for bars, give microbreweries a special dispensation to sell carryouts on Sundays and allow booze sales on Election Day.
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