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Recipe Sleuth: Harry’s Tap Room’s Roasted-Red-Pepper-and-Crab Soup

The roasted-red-pepper-and-crab soup at Harry Tap Room’s is so popular that the Clarendon restaurant sells gallons of it each day. It’s no wonder then that one of our readers requested the recipe. Executive chef Alex Reyes describes the soup as having a strong red-pepper flavor with a little bit of a kick. For the best results, he suggests searing the peppers instead of just sweating them. He also recommends using non-pasteurized local crabmeat. For his kitchen, he seeks out blue crab from Virginia.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 | in Best Bites Blog | By Jessica Sidman

Leave What You Will for This Meal

Karma Kitchen’s one-page menu changes almost every week, but the prices don’t: There aren’t any. more

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Cheap Eats (2009)

Great food, low prices—and increasingly nice settings. Here are the best bargain restaurants in DC, Maryland, and Virginia

Dirt Cheap Eats (2008)

Going out for a great meal is often a luxury, especially in a down economy. Good news: we have 61 places in our annual guide to Dirt Cheap Eats, where there’s a wealth of choices for $15 a person or less.

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Where & When: What to Do This Weekend

Tons of Fourth of July parties, fireworks, pool parties galore, a pig roast, the closing of the Folklife Festival and Artomatic, and lots more in this jam-packed weekend guide. more

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