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If Logan Cox were a stock, he’d be the low-risk, high-reward kind that the masses have yet to discover. Having apprenticed under Frank Ruta at Palena, then run New Heights, Cox is coming into his own at this Cleveland Park cafe. On a busy night, the neighborhood seems to have descended on the warmly lit, shotgun-style space to take a stool at the expertly tended bar or to see what Cox has up his jus-flecked sleeve.
The chef’s mastery of techniques, from powders and foams to emulsions and broths, is the diner’s reward. An array of influences—India, Pacific Rim, regional American—are knitted into a cuisine that increasingly feels like personal expression.
What to get: Pickled vegetables with cardamom-spiked yogurt; pistachio agnolotti; quinoa risotto with lobster mushrooms; rabbit two ways (rack and leg-meat confit); duck with crab-apple sabayon; butterscotch pudding; chocolate-chip cookies.
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Wall Street Journal's Lettie Teague visits Ripple
By Lettie Teague
On my very brief recent visit to our nation’s capitol, I managed to fit in visits to a few wine shops, a couple wine bars and a new restaurant with an all-American wine list — many under $40 a bottle.
Although I’m not a big patron (or fan) of wine bars in New York, I sure wish there was a wine bar like Ripple at home. This mod outpost in Cleveland Park has an interesting wine list with some very good deals. I had a $6 glass of wine (when is the last time you saw one of those?) from the Gaillac region of France: the 2010 Domaine Philemon Perle Mauzac.
At that price, I didn’t expect it would be very good. But it was delicious — a dry, minerally, high-acid French white made from the Mauzac grape.
I asked Mo, the restaurant’s beverage director, how much the wine cost wholesale — less than $5? (The wholesale price of the bottle is usually close to the price of a glass.) Mo, who was both wine-knowledgeable and good humored, only laughed. I later found it for $11, retail.
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