Mom's Visit to DC, January 2010

After Museum meetings, Mom and Jer explored for good eating. A great dinner at Potenza revealed that the restaurant also had a bakery cafe open from 8:00 am-8:00 pm. So the next day we went back for Morning Coffee and found them making fresh, home-made pasta.

Cutting the pasta into tagliatelle

Spinach fettucine

Homemade gelato, highly decorated

Potenza makes their own pasta, bread, grissini, coffee, and etc. We had a long chat with the sous chef who is from Puglia, Italy and before D.C. worked in Paris. sweet guy with believable credentials. He told us about the multiple "components" of the dishes we had eaten the previous evening at the restaurant. For our Morning Coffee, we shared an omelette sandwich on delicious bread and took away a bag of Italian cookies-pastaccine which were divine and the best ever ciabbata roll!

Flower arrangement at the Willard Hotel

Ceiling panel at the Willard Hotel. The elaborate ceiling has insignia from all the States.

Bench in the Enid Haupt Smithsonian Gardens

Another bench in the same gardens--note the leaves motif.