Super-fantastic Journeys

10560 Metropolitan Ave. Kensington, MD 20895 240-483-7285 Website Service: ✮✮✮ Food: ✮✮✮ ✮ Cleanliness: ✮ ✮✮ ✮ Talia's Cucina is a Mediterranean kitchen made fresh and with great flavor profiles.  The dine-in portion of the restaurant is small but the flavors coming out of the open space kitchen are huge and the result of true passion for the cooking.  We started with the kalamata olive hummus.  The hummus is for sale in a refrigerator inside the restaurant and they literally take the container from the fridge and serve it with some warm pita.  The nice thing about this is that you can easily take your leftover hummus with you just by putting the lid back on.  The hummus was very good and was not overpowered by the olives.   I had the 7-hour Lamb Wrap which had a roasted leg of lamb that has been marinated in Greek spices served on a pita with lettuce, feta tomato.  The lamb was very flavorful, but it was heated back up in a skillet which I felt dried out some of the lamb and made

7129 Bethesda Ln Bethesda MD 20814 301-718-1005 Website Service: ✮✮✮ Food: ✮✮✮✮✮ Cleanliness: ✮ ✮✮ ✮ Luke's Lobster is a seafood restaurant located in downtown Bethesda Maryland that focuses on doing high-quality seafood right.  Part of a larger sustainable seafood provider from Maine the restaurants provide you the feeling of stepping into a lobster shack along the Maine coast where you can get the freshest seafood possible.   Luke's Seafood rolls are classic.  A classic top split but that has been buttered and grilled, then filled with the fresh seafood salad of your choice, and topped with just a sprinkle of celery salt.   Lukes also offers a selection of local craft beer as well as some of the more common domestic beers. The inside of Luke's is tight and is very true to a couple of lobster shacks that I have visited on the coast of Maine in my travels.  There is limited seating, with about half of the seating being bar style and half being tables. You place your order a

Don't forget to look up, you may be missing one of the best parts! As you travel the United States visiting the State Capitol Building, or in some places called the State House, is a great activity to build into your trip plans.  As a governmental building, the State Capital is open to the public and often provide tours, either guided or self-guided.  While visiting the house and senate chambers and learning something about the history of the state taking a moment to pause in the  rotunda  and looking up can be rewarding. Take a look and see some of the rotundas I have been fortunate to visit. State of Washington State of Texas State of Maryland State of Illinois State of Connecticut State of New Mexico State of Montana State of Arkansas