It is late, I am exhausted, but happily so. We made a trip to Adams Morgan-normally I do not plan events; I believe in the moment...Today, I planned an evening, for a change; a weekday evening, on top of that. So, I found a French Bistro at Adams Morgan. (PS: Not to be confused with Madam's Organ, an in/famous yet hugely popular blues bar located in the center of Adams Morgan.)
An interesting lesson of my DC quest is that the neighborhood matters.
In a French Bistro at Capitol Hill, one could have dinner in a place densely populated with Capitol Hill politicians. Adams Morgan is a hip district - like the Taksim of DC. Levent was very tired, but he couldn't say no. For one thing, I was ready to go when he came from work! So we followed the directions to the French Bistro, only to find it has been shut down! This is where planning leads - among literally hundreds of "open" venues in Adams Morgan, I actually managed to pick the one that has been shut down. We were hungry and determined; so we continued looking until we picked Meze. An inviting, surprizingly cheap, cozy Turkish restaurant. Most of the patrons and the waiters were Turkish, so it felt like we were in Istanbul. Anyway, the moral of the day was: good thing may happen to you if you don't plan... And vice versa.