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February 8, 2010

Monday Afternoon Quarterbacking: Pho Dat Thanh

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Yesterday my review of Pho Dat Thanh in Towson appeared in the Sunday paper.

It was the perfect kind of restaurant for how I was feeling -- just coming off two weeks of a nasty, clingy head cold.

I so much wish we had a nice, big steaming bowl of pho for dinner tonight. The skirt steak I marinated doesn't seem half so appealing. ...


What I didn't expect was that I actually liked some of the restaurant's other dishes better than its pho. (Not that I've ever met a pho I didn't like in February.)

Now I have to start worrying about my next review. It's not fair to review a restaurant during this kind of emergency -- it's too atypical. I guess it's all going to depend on whether the dire predictions for the next round of weather hold true.

Every time I look at the Sun's home page, which I'm doing regularly from home this afternoon with glum fascination, the prediction totals go up a few more inches.

(Karl Merton Ferron/Sun photographer)

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 5:22 PM | | Comments (4)
Categories: Monday Morning Quarterbacking
        

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We haven't gotten any Sun delivery since the Snopacolypse started.

Me either. I miss doing the crossword. EL

Who Dat?

Pho Dat!

ate there twice, was really good, and not hard on the wallet.
vietnamese ice coffee was great.
pho w meatball and sugar cane shrimp were really good.

It's Tuesday--and our Saturday and Sunday papers just arrived!

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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