Sonny Ng

As a former restaurant manager with more than two decades of experience with various eateries of different sizes and operations including fast-food, I loathe giving negative ratings. However, this place feels as if it's a dump in some third world: for some reasons (IRS aversion?) preferring cash to mobile or credit orders which often doesn't work or overcharging with duplicate orders; the suspicious manager one time hides the online order with late pick-up; makes disparaging remarks to customers who paid using mobile or credit card (because this is the information age in a wealthy suburbs and cash is the preferred currency where he grew up, where patrons risk jail just to stuff their faces!) about such orders even egging employees to join the insults; manager hands the big restroom key to a non patron who just to walks in from the street to use the facility without purchasing--with the plastic gloves for handling foods still on! The incivility, lack of proper hygiene and inefficient payment options and little street trash talking "dramas"---corresponding deduction in stars-- are not worth the effort,; certainly considering there are plenty of other food choices in the same plaza!

Beautiful wooden farm house representative of late 19th century homes with its classical "four-square" architecture including a large hallway, wide front porch and wrap-around veranda. The prestine interior artifacts and intricate woodworks are just exquisite--a real historical treasure! Located on top a small hill, the wooden house is only partly visible from the busy Columbia Pike but blocked by some thick shrubs and surrounded on three sides by new houses in a gated community. If you like old historically registered homes, be sure to visit the 18th century Garden Spring house nearby on Braddock Rd a mile away one street over.

Clean, spacious building with offices, restroom, auditorium and a decent cafeteria in the lobby with comfy seating arrangement and late hours operation perfect for social or studying. Since my last review, I am please to learn that there are now new additional outlets and charging stations installed on some of the tables in the back as well as underneath some lounge chairs. Other nice additions include filtered water stations perfect for rehydration. It goes without saying that parking here and downtown DC in general is a real pain, so use Metro Farragut West or Foggy-buttdom.

One of the larger embassy in DC, it's a labyrinth of stylish Georgian buildings, regal paintings and statues, even an ornate English garden in the back, definitely more than a pretty penny of prim and proper setting for teas and biscuits. The staff were polite and curt, kinda snotty in the subtle English way. I only did the visual superficial tour so can't testify to level of service provided by the embassy.

A hidden nook of a building housing major national TV news outlets in DC. Not accessible to the public.