Guidebook for Alexandria

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Guidebook for Alexandria

Food Scene

This new Mexican restaurant is in my condo complex. It has a great bar and good (not great) Mexican food. It's wonderful just to be able to walk downstairs and find food and drink!
Dos Amigos
535 E Braddock Rd
This new Mexican restaurant is in my condo complex. It has a great bar and good (not great) Mexican food. It's wonderful just to be able to walk downstairs and find food and drink!
This is a great little restaurant in a typical Del Ray bungalow,with French influence and organic food. They have an excellent brunch on weekends. You can walk here, but they also have parking.
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Del Ray Café
205 E Howell Ave
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This is a great little restaurant in a typical Del Ray bungalow,with French influence and organic food. They have an excellent brunch on weekends. You can walk here, but they also have parking.
Great place! Even the Obamas agree, celebrating their anniversary here last year.
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Vermilion
1120 King St
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Great place! Even the Obamas agree, celebrating their anniversary here last year.
Best Chinese food in the area, just two blocks from my place. They deliver for free if you want a night in!
Shanghai Peking
506 N Henry St
Best Chinese food in the area, just two blocks from my place. They deliver for free if you want a night in!
Although there are numerous Starbucks around, including one just a block and a half away, why not hang out where the locals do and maybe hear some music at night as well?
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St. Elmo's Coffee Pub
2300 Mt Vernon Ave
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Although there are numerous Starbucks around, including one just a block and a half away, why not hang out where the locals do and maybe hear some music at night as well?
If you must have Starbucks, it's just up the street!
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Starbucks
532 King St
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If you must have Starbucks, it's just up the street!
This fabulous new restaurant is always busy, so make sure to have a reservation. Besides great American food, you can try their "weird stuff" like crubeens and ox tongue salad.
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Virtue Feed & Grain
106 S Union St
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This fabulous new restaurant is always busy, so make sure to have a reservation. Besides great American food, you can try their "weird stuff" like crubeens and ox tongue salad.
Before franchising, Five Guys started right here in Northern Virginia. Best greasy hamburgers and more fries than you could ever eat.
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Five Guys
1300 2nd St NE
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Before franchising, Five Guys started right here in Northern Virginia. Best greasy hamburgers and more fries than you could ever eat.
A Ben's chili dog is the only authentic DC food. Explore a little outside the tourist area and into what was DC's own Harlem. Favored by Bill Cosby and Barack Obama.
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Ben's Chili Bowl Mural
1213 U St NW
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A Ben's chili dog is the only authentic DC food. Explore a little outside the tourist area and into what was DC's own Harlem. Favored by Bill Cosby and Barack Obama.
For Top Chef fans, this is one of two Spike Mendolsohn's restaurants just southeast of the Capital building. Make sure you are on Penn. Ave. SE.
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We, The Pizza
2100 Crystal Dr
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For Top Chef fans, this is one of two Spike Mendolsohn's restaurants just southeast of the Capital building. Make sure you are on Penn. Ave. SE.
Soike's second restaurant right next to We the Pizza where you can get his famous hamburger with a fried egg or a hamburger anyway you like it!
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Good Stuff Eatery
303 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
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Soike's second restaurant right next to We the Pizza where you can get his famous hamburger with a fried egg or a hamburger anyway you like it!

Essentials

This is the closest grocery store with a lot of choices for prepared foods and cheap wine.
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Trader Joe's
750 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
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This is the closest grocery store with a lot of choices for prepared foods and cheap wine.
If you are willing to wake up early Saturday morning, take a walk to Market Square (6:00 - 10:00 am) for fresh veggies, flowers, and a lot more. This has been a market since mid-1700's.
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Market Square
300 King St
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If you are willing to wake up early Saturday morning, take a walk to Market Square (6:00 - 10:00 am) for fresh veggies, flowers, and a lot more. This has been a market since mid-1700's.
This is the best place for the grocery necessities. Also, within walking distance. You can cut through the back of the intermediate school!
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Giant
21000 Southbank St
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This is the best place for the grocery necessities. Also, within walking distance. You can cut through the back of the intermediate school!

Sightseeing

In addition to all of the sites in DC, there is a lot to see in Old Town Alexandria. You can tour this colonial tavern that served our first 5 presidents and really eat where Washington ate!
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Gadsby's Tavern
138 N Royal St
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In addition to all of the sites in DC, there is a lot to see in Old Town Alexandria. You can tour this colonial tavern that served our first 5 presidents and really eat where Washington ate!
Most tourists would never stop by this colonial home, owned by the Lee family across the street from where Robert E. grew up (his is a private home). Only a few blocks away, it's worth a trip.
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Lee-Fendall House
614 Oronoco St
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Most tourists would never stop by this colonial home, owned by the Lee family across the street from where Robert E. grew up (his is a private home). Only a few blocks away, it's worth a trip.
Don't miss this magnificent building. You can go through the tunnel in the Capitol Visitors Center. It's worth the trip! See the main reading room, Guggenheim Bible, & Jefferson's library.
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Thư viện Quốc hội Mỹ
101 Independence Ave SE
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Don't miss this magnificent building. You can go through the tunnel in the Capitol Visitors Center. It's worth the trip! See the main reading room, Guggenheim Bible, & Jefferson's library.

Arts & Culture

Walk around the old torpedo factory that is now an arts center, with local artisans displaying and selling their creations.
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Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N Union St
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Walk around the old torpedo factory that is now an arts center, with local artisans displaying and selling their creations.