Mimi’s Cafe
The décor is French, but it’s the comfortable French countryside, casual but certainly clean and reputable.
The food also reflects the home-style charm of a small restaurant with a large variety of options. My recommendation is the café classics section, with options like the chicken pot pie, pot roast or country fried steak. A proud Southerner, I couldn’t resist seeing how a California-based chain approached country fried steak. The breading was lighter than the traditional Southern dish, but delicious all the same, served with mashed potatoes and vegetables. There will certainly be more of this type of comfort food in my future.
Those seeking lighter faire will find a respectable selection of salads and sandwiches. For late risers, it’s also refreshing to find another restaurant that offers all-day breakfast.
Given my resolution to no longer deny myself dessert, I was treated to a healthy selection of sweet offerings to finish my meal. Deciding on a little of everything, the classic ensemble features a smaller serving of three desserts – the bread pudding, the apple crisp and the chocolate brownie. It’s just enough to make you want a full helping of each.
Mimi’s has four Virginia locations, including the Loudoun restaurant outside Dulles Town Center. While there are good and bad parts to every chain, the friendly staff was very attentive, with our food arriving promptly even on a busy Sunday afternoon.
Mimi’s Café
21015 Dulles Town Circle
Sterling
http://www.Mimiscafe.com
Lovely photos, o Divine One. That dark blue sky in DC is amazing. This time of year I especially love my little five acres. The leaves are changing colors and falling and it makes for such a lovely morning walk. The dogs love to play in the leaves and their joy in just taking a walk always makes me smile.
Can’t wait for all the folders to be updated!! Some of the photos are amazing….I would love to save all of them onto my computer, unfortunately my dad won’t be too happy about that haha. Anyways, David really never takes a bad picture!
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I have some pictures from the Lancater and Allentown Concerts from a few weeks ago. i tried sending them the nights after the concerts,but something in my aim mail thing wasnt working. I’ll try to send them again so you guys could put them up here
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Bob:I use categories for the agtmuenrs about transportation in Northern Virginia.1. Screw it. This class of argument holds that the problems are observable but no new or different action needs to be taken. Generally, this argument is put forth by those who are either retired or close to retirement. Alternately, they work at home and have little need for regular commuting. The key benefit is tax containment.2. Pave it. This class of argument holds that building more and bigger roads with perhaps some improvements in land use policy is the way to go. The less useful form of this argument holds that our largely ineffective General Assembly will raise the gas tax and fund the paving. The hallmark of this argument is fairness. If Northern Virginia pays a disproportionate share of Virginia’s taxes then why shouldn’t it get a disproportionate share of transportation funds? The alternate form of this argument is user fees . This argument is observably unfair sine only some users are ever asked to pay fees. However, it has the practicality of bypassing our largely useless General Assembly. Sell the Beltway to Transurban. Pass on the Rail to Dulles problem to MWAA.3. Reform it. This largely academic argument holds that there is an almost magical combination of shared vehicles, land use reform, mass transit and tax policy which will solve not only transportation problems but many other societal problems. This argument has the benefit of probably being right over the long term. It suffers from the challenge of being implemented any time soon. It is also extremely expensive.4. Just do it. This argument has no basis in academics or policy theory. It holds that being the worst traffic locale in the Unites States will cripple the locality once the federal money starts to slow. Under this argument, inefficiency is the cost of inaction. Money will be wasted and criticism will be high. However, the amount of money wasted will pale in comparison to the economic loss of Northern Virginia becoming the next Detroit, Buffalo or Martinsville.I am an adherent of argument number 4. While there has been plenty of time to address our growing and predictable problems over the 52 years I have lived here, the problems were not addressed. We are always cites as having the worst traffic congestion in the country (with the possible exception of LA a locality in full failure). It would have been nice to do things right but that would have required steady progress. Instead, our political leaders failed us and we now face crisis.As for being able to add or subtract, I think you would find my math skills more than adequate.The question isn’t add or subtract, its act or continue to be frozen like deer in the headlights. I choose act.
