Ten years ago, you'd have been hard pressed to find Guinness on tap. Now you can get it at pretty much any downtown brewhouse. Away from the center of town you'll find it, and sometimes Murphy's on tap, at a number of Irish pubs in the area:

Ireland's Four Provinces, 3412 Connecticut Ave NW, 202 244 0860, Kelly's Irish Times, 14 F St NW, 202 543 5433, Nanny O'Brien's, 3319 Connecticut Ave NW, 202 686 9189, Ireland's Four Courts, 2051 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, 703 525 3600, to name a few.

When Celtic football games are playing, you can quaff it while watching them on television from Scotland at Flanagan's Irish Pub in Bethesda at 7637 Old Georgetown Rd, 301 986 1007.

The Royal Mile Pub, 2407 Price Ave, Wheaton,301 946 4511, is a Scottish "theme" pub with a very good beer selection and an outstanding collection of malt scotch. It also serves pub fare.

Graham Bartlett is executive chef of Zengo, where you can find almost everything from ceviche to sushi. He caught the “food bug” while traveling with his parents in Mexico. But Paris, not the States nor Latin America was where he went to learn the culinary arts.