The Jurassic Period of the FDPs

Since we didn't decide to blog about our adventures until now, here's a quick re-cap of places we've been with our Oink! rating scale.  Here's our basis for numbers of Oinks:

1 Oink!- Stinky (not worthy of playing in our pig sty)

2 Oinks!- Possibly Trough Worthy

3 Oinks!- Small grunts and we begin to Squeal

4 Oinks!- Oinktastic, we're pigs in S*!t

December 20th, 2007 Zatinya

Rating: 3 Oinks

Memorable: Good Greek Wine, Good Service, Tasty Bites but atmosphere is very noisy

January 25th, 2008 Dino's Restaurant Week (month for them)

Rating: 3 Oinks

Memorable: Really good restaurant month options, server had good knowledge and recommendations on wine, Corkage is waived if you buy one bottle of their list

February 12th, 2008 Lalibela Ethiopian (14th and P NW)

Rating: 2 1/2 Oinks!

Memorable: Alcohol list is mediocre, it was freezing cold but the Ethiopian food was totally legit and inexpensive.  Hey when you have good company anything is good!

March 20th, 2008 Central- Kate's Birthday

Rating: 4 Oinks!

Memorable: Corkage is $20 but it was totally worth it for the bottle of 1997 Doyard Champagne, we gorged on Ratatouille, Mac and Cheese, Cheese Puffs, Steak and Frites and Kit Kat bars.

April 20th 2008 Hank's Oyster Bar in Dupont Circle

Rating: 2 1/2 Oinks!

Memorable:  Food  is solid but maybe slightly overpriced, it was a very rainy day and they made us wait outside until exactly 5:30pm.  We did request Onion Rings with Old Bay (since they had French Fries with Old Bay) and that was no problem and side portions were more generous than the entrees.  Popcorn shrimp and calamari was delicious.

May 16th 2008 Sushi Ko Gloverpark

Rating: 3 1/2 Oinks!

Memorable: Excellent service with good recommendations, seasonal sushi favorites, $15 corkage fee and tempura bananas and ice cream for dessert!

Well that brings us up to speed.  We'll be blogging about our monthly escapades as well as any mini Happy Hours in between (and Top Chef nights, but that's a whole other blog!)

The Birth of the Fat Drunken Pigs

On a cold December night four beautiful, educated woman discovered a mutual love of food, alcohol and debauchery.  We know this sounds like SATC (you, know Sex and the City) except we have a lot less sex, a lot less Manolos (actually none) and a lot less Cosmos (but we like pink just with bubbles).  So here's the quick breakdown of how we all ended up together on that night- Kate knew Melissa who knew Amanda who knew Molly.  There is much more depth to it but we won't go too much further right now (because we're drinking) but it was love at first sip of our Greek Sparkling Wine.  Our first unofficial gathering was on December 20th, 2007 at Zatinya in Gallery Place.  As we sat there slowly realizing that we all shared a mutual bond of gorging in good food, good friends and good wine our monthly supper club was born.  We ordered rounds of Mediterranean tapas including stuffed grape leaves, hummus, lamb kebabs, falafel, etc.  While discussing how fabulous it was to have fellow female friends, who actually like to eat things other than salad, Amanda proceeded to order a third bottle of wine.  Our dinner conversation quickly moved to a realization that we needed to eat around town on a regular basis and that we needed a name.  We knew that not just any "girly" book club name would work and Amanda promptly slammed her hands down and proclaimed "Fat Drunken Pigs!"  Everyone nodded in simultaneous agreement; thus we were born (and then we drank another bottle of wine.... and we think we had dessert).