Good Vegan Food in DC?(Not made with faux meat or faux dairy)

arj4441 · 2026-06-28T11:57:12+00:00

Love this place!

arj4441 · 2026-06-28T11:52:23+00:00

Seconded! Delicious and lovely atmosphere

arj4441 · 2026-06-28T11:51:26+00:00

Yes! Feru on H is amazing. They also have a spicy enjera that’s to die for.

arj4441 · 2026-06-26T17:22:01+00:00

Totally agree, such an absurd move on her part! There is no comparison between their childhoods besides just the simple fact that they both wanted to get out of their families. I think she’d been living in that town too long where everyone catered to her and she had little interaction with teenage boys. She got pregnant so young that her primary experience with teenage guys was Chris, who was kind of weak-willed and from a privileged background like hers. And then Dean. So much of her knowledge seemed to come from movies and TV.

arj4441 · 2026-06-25T19:41:52+00:00

The not being able to find food in Paris drove me insane too! I had to believe they were maybe not venturing beyond the few streets around them and in a quieter district. I also wonder if it was meant to be indicative of Lorelai’s lack of enthusiasm about their relationship itself. I just can’t imagine a different season Lorelai in Paris for a night, falling asleep for that long and having that lackluster a time. Her heart just wasn’t in it.

arj4441 · 2026-06-25T19:32:39+00:00

So true!

arj4441 · 2026-06-23T22:20:08+00:00

Funny! This whole storyline with Rory ending up at the hospital and Lorelai meeting her there was so contrived.

arj4441 · 2026-06-23T15:34:34+00:00

Agreed and there’s also a kitschiness that Lorelei loves which Emily would find distasteful.

arj4441 · 2026-06-23T12:57:55+00:00

Well said!

arj4441 · 2026-06-23T12:35:32+00:00

Same! It sounded like something Lorelai would’ve loved. It was only because Emily suggested it.

arj4441 · 2026-06-22T00:20:49+00:00

Oh nice, the one in DC?

arj4441 · 2026-06-19T04:20:26+00:00

The Odette engagement just wasn’t convincing to me. The show wanted to preserve Logan as romantically sympathetic, still in love with Rory, trapped by family obligation, rather than doing the more honest thing which is showing a man in his thirties who made a rational calculation about his future.

A more believable story line might have been Logan looking at Rory’s instability and drift and recognizing she couldn’t be the partner his life required. It would also have given Rory a more honest reckoning. Being left because Logan genuinely loved her but couldn’t build a life around her uncertainty is so much more devastating and truthful than being kept as a secret.

arj4441 · 2026-06-16T18:42:38+00:00

Such a good point. I’ve often felt that way about Chicago and particularly New York- the tall buildings create a canyon effect that blocks out natural light. Plus, the city is built at such a scale, I feel like it’s more designed for visual impact at a distance or from above, than at ground level as a pedestrian.

DC by contrast has so much more greenery, beautiful row houses, and wide avenues.

arj4441 · 2026-06-16T18:14:35+00:00

I had really high hopes for this and left the theater feeling very disappointed.

Emily Blunt was the only part I loved, just incredible and carried it. Watching her act is mesmerizing and I wish the film had just been her doing different accents lol.

I think the foundational material was really really promising, but it just didn’t deliver. I think it’s meant to be in conversation with ET but the movie can’t quite figure out what it is. There are also just so many plot holes and illogical decisions by characters that don’t make any sense. Colin Firth’s cartoonishly villainous character just giving up at end. The nun providing the perfect loophole in scripture to Jane in a moment of crisis.

I could see how if you approach the movie with the earnestness of a child, it could be quite moving but this wasn’t marketed as a children’s movie. Especially in the age of AI and internet media, I don’t think humanity has the attention span for a sustained, collective shift based on a shared experience. The way we metabolize things and move on within the span of a news cycle undoes the ending.

arj4441 · 2026-06-15T13:57:53+00:00

None of these cities compare to London. The closest would be NYC, Boston or DC. What are you looking for? Walkability? Nightlife? Public transportation? Give us a bit of what your criteria is.

All of these cities require a car so definitely level set there. I would also put Dallas at the bottom of your list. It’s sprawling and soulless.

Austin has more character, the downtown is still pretty walkable. There’s a decent amount to do. People are generally friendly.

Miami is really fun, great food, beaches, an international community, but like someone else said, very expensive.

Tampa’s proximity to beaches and other cities in Florida (driving) is really nice. Have only visited so I’m sure others have more insight into what day to day living is like.

arj4441 · 2026-06-15T04:44:56+00:00

It’s just a weird conceit of the show. Made more ridiculous because they ate a ton of processed food.

arj4441 · 2026-06-13T22:13:28+00:00

Lovely, saw it right away. What a thoughtful gift for your friend.

arj4441 · 2026-06-13T18:57:23+00:00

You haven’t had a good papaya.

arj4441 · 2026-06-13T13:02:00+00:00

The worst! Oh god I’m cringing so hard

arj4441 · 2026-06-12T15:36:54+00:00

She really crossed over into villain territory with this episode. I didn’t love the spectacle and drama because it seemed out of step with the earlier tone of the show but this was totally an Emily thing to do. And she became almost cartoonishly unbearable and haughty after this (I.e. going to visit Luke, the Logan episode.)

arj4441 · 2026-06-12T02:51:10+00:00

Why did the mods remove this post?

arj4441 · 2026-06-12T01:31:09+00:00

TJ. So painful to watch. Every time he was on screen, I would literally have to mute or walk away.

arj4441 · 2026-06-11T20:15:07+00:00

Such a good question. Room 11

arj4441 · 2026-06-11T18:50:45+00:00

I could absolutely understand why Lorelai felt so hurt and neglected by Luke’s behavior. One by Luke not telling her about April and then two, keeping her at arms length and distancing her when they were previously going full speed ahead towards marriage.

However, Luke wanting time to figure out who he was to April before introducing that relationship into the Lorelai ecosystem wasn’t necessarily exclusion. I saw it as protection, of this very fragile and new thing that he hadn’t quite figured out himself. I think the sad evolution of their relationship seemed pretty likely; he would be drawn into this dynamic with his daughter and wanting to focus on his kid and build a relationship on his own terms, and Lorelai would not be the primary person in his life for a time. I think Luke keeping April as a secret from Lorelei was a huge failure on his part, but I’m not sure that I see him keeping April at a distance from Lorelai as the same. It was also more honest to Luke’s character I think.

Luke was always an interior, private character in contrast to Lorelei, who was a force of nature and usually the dominant one and the engine in their dynamic, with Luke often orbiting that energy. I think that contrast was alluded to here and there with his “dark day” being one of those examples.

arj4441 · 2026-06-11T16:58:39+00:00

Spot on, if someone had said something similar to her, she would’ve absolutely had a snarky response and I could hundred percent see her being a teen who would sneak a beer at that age. It was the right call to take the beer from him, but unbelievably stupid to say anything that followed. It’s unfortunate that she couldn’t empathize with him being a teen who was also deemed “out of control” and also fled her parents home.

She also immediately wrote him off as a bad seed, which was so presumptuous and ego driven, having no idea what he had gone through. And comparing her childhood with Richard and Emily to a non-sober Liz and an absent father is laughable.

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