My 10 favorite places to network in the DC area

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As 2009 comes to a close I have been thinking of all the people I met over the past 52 weeks of 2009. One the favorite times of the day to network for me is between 7.30 a.m and 8.30 a.m. I usually try to find a place that is on my commute route. Here is a list of my favorite places for the morning :

1. Starbucks Fallsgrove
   14941 Shady Grove Road C-3-1
   Rockville, Maryland 20850
   301-315-0096
2. Starbucks Cabin John Mall
   7911 Tuckerman Lane
   Potomac, Maryland 20854
   (301) 765-0556
3. Corner Bakery Westlake
   10327 Westlake Dr.
   Bethesda, MD 20817
   P: (301) 469-8774  F: (301) 469-8898
4. 
   La Madeline Bethesda
   7607 Old Georgetown Road
   Bethesda MD, 20814
   301-215-9142
   
   
5. 

Busboys @ 14th & V.
2021 14th St, DC
(202) 387-7638

6. Busboys @ 5th & K.
   1025 5th Street NW, DC
   (202) 789-2227
7. Cosi Dupont Circle
   1350 Connecticut Ave.
   Washington, DC 20036
   Phone: (202) 296-9341
   
8. 

Silver Diner Reston Town Center
11951 Killingsworth Ave
Reston, VA 20194
Tel: 703-742-0801
9. Starbucks Centerville Rd Herndon
   2407 Centreville Road
   Herndon, VA 20171-3013
   (571) 643-0240
   
10. 
    

Kiss Cafe Canton
2400 Boston St
Baltimore, MD 21224
(410) 327-9889

What are your favorite places for breakfast? Would you like to hear about my lunch and dinner choice?

Snacking on Palak Garalu

Palak Garalu, originally uploaded by ShashiBellamkonda.

Ingredients:
Spinach leaves
Chopped garlic ( 6 cloves)
Chopped Green chilly ( 4 nos)
Moong Dal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mung_bean ) 2 cups roughly ground after soaking for 2 hours in water
Chilly Powder
Chopped Red onion ( 1 med)
Salt to taste
Red Chilly powder

Mix the ingredients together make them into balls and then flatten them and deep fry in hot oil.

This was really fantastic for a nice Snowy cold day visiting relatives in Boston.

Potlakkai Perugu Pacchadi

Potlakkai Perugu Pacchadi, originally uploaded by ShashiBellamkonda.

POTLAKAYA PERUGU PACHADI - This vegetable dish is a great accompaniment for boiled rice. Potlakkai or pottlakaya ( in Telugu a South Indian Language ) is called Snake Gourd in English ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosanthes_cucumerina )and is mixed with yougurt, seasoned with red chillies, dried ginger, mustad seeds, cilantro leaves, turmeric, green chilly, Cumin seeds, chilly powder,

Indian home made snack sarvappa

Indian home made snack sarvappa, originally uploaded by ShashiBellamkonda.

This is a awesome snack that I used to love during my childhood in India. In the Southern State of Andhra Pradesh this is a snack that is eaten with evening tea.

Ingredients:
Rice Flour
Onion
Curry leaves
Chilly powder
Salt to taste
Sesame seeds.
Coriander seeds
Oil

Mix the ingredients to a paste with water and then stick it to a well oiled pan. Make holes in the dough and cover it and cook it on dry heat ( med flame for about 20 min) till it is golden brown in color. (Have to try tcooking this in an oven)

Top selling items at the Kosher McDonald’s In Jerusalem From Bob London’s Blog

This is a post from Bob London’s Blog bob-servations.com

Top selling items at the Kosher McDonald’s In Jerusalem:

Big Mensch
Guilty Meal
Fleegle McNuggets
McKishka
Pastrami & Egg McMuffin
Filet-O-Gefilt-O-Fish
French Fried Potato Knishes
Maneschewitz McGrape Shake

See the original post at http://bit.ly/87s1r0

Great post Bob

Coming soon to Rockville : Cake Dreams

MoCo Holiday breakfast at the Bombay Bistro Rockville Dec 2009, originally uploaded by ShashiBellamkonda.

I saw this sign next to Bombay Bistro in Rockville. This used to be a Frame works store and seems like cakes and cupcakes is the trend now. I myself would like Sugar free cakes ;)

I think this cupcake is smiling at me

Safeway cupcakes wish happy holidays, originally uploaded by ShashiBellamkonda.

Its always nice to see well designed food with seasonsal wishes.This is at the Safeway

Snow pictures beginning last night

Shashi Bellamkonda: The Social Listener

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How do you keep yourself learning? Listening more than talking. You should be very careful when someone calls you a guru because whoever’s going to call you a guru will have a lot more to teach you than you can teach them.

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Cabin John Mall opens Breadsmith store in Potomac

Breadsmith 7937 Tuckerman Lane, Potomac, 301-983-6033, http://www.breadsmith.com. Hours: Mondays through Thursdays, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays, 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Sundays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Saturdays.

I read about this new bread store in today's Washington Post food section in Jane Black's article http://bit.ly/6whOXk. I definitely want to try this specialty Bread Store soon. Have you tried it ? What do you think ?

Grilled Alpaca 0% cholestrol

Grilled Alpaca 0% cholestrol, originally uploaded by ShashiBellamkonda.

This was almost a year ago in pachapapas restaurant in Cusco, Peru on our way to Macchu Picchu

Interesting Curry-oke at SpiceXing Rockville for Bollywood fans

Seen the Slumdog Millionaire and danced to "Jai Ho " ? Sudhir Seth Chef of SpiceXing  sent me a message that they had  a new program every Friday called Curry-oke where you can singalong with the top Bollywood songs. I think its after 9.30 p.m every Friday with a Happy hour. If i promise to sing will you come? Have you heard any Bollywood songs? Once upon a time when I lived in Moscow everyone seems to know songs from "Mera Nam Joker'

SpiceXing 100 Gibbs St, Unit B,Rockville, MD 20850 http://www.spicexing.com/ (301) 610-0303

Post #techcocktail Dinner tweetup Dec 3rd 2009

Going out with a group of fantastic folks has become a tradition for me after Tech Cocktail. Tech Cocktail is a place to meet DC entrepreneurs, Social folks, Networkers, fun loving marketing gurus and journalists and/or bloggers. Tomorrow Dec 3rd is the holiday Tech Cocktail in DC at the  Leftbank, Adams Morgan http://bit.ly/5OQqkL from 6.30 p.m.


To continue the tradition i wanted to ask you folks if you wanted to join me,  @SallyFalkow and @putitaway tomorrow evening . The best person to ask about restaurant recommendations is Shana Glickfield and here is her recommendation tweet.


dcconcierge 

  

@shashib Post #techcocktail restaurant picks - Napoleon, Casa Oaxaca, and Bourbon. More casual, but many end up at Shwarama Spot nextdoor.


Would be great if you can come. tweet or comment here if you are coming so I can go about making a reservation.