If Los Angeles gets to mix its food trucks with the porn industry, can D.C. somehow get Michele Bachmann working some artisanal Minnesotan hot-dish-on-a-stick food truck on Capitol Hill? [LAT]

Dalchinni, a new Indian restaurant on Connecticut Avenue near S Street NW that boasts “specialty Himalayan java coffee,” has “yet to receive the Italian coffee machines it needs to brew espresso and other hot drinks.” [WaPo]

Samuel Beckett’s Irish Gastro Pub in Shirlington is set for a Saturday debut, but with a “restricted menu.” [ARLNow]

Epiphany! Restaurants on Chinablock have strange names! [PoP]

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