Albi

Albi now counts two, the newest of which is a glass-enclosed rear patio that can seat up to 25 revelers.

There’s no more fetching kitchen in town than the open one at Albi — Arabic for “my heart” — surrounded by a mural of characters holding hands.

Washington has welcomed a host of impressive places to eat around the pandemic — Albi in Navy Yard, Imperfecto in the West End — but none that have excited me more than Oyster Oyster, a fun name for a serious, and seriously delicious, restaurant.

Smoked lamb pita– from Yellow the Cafe –If you order the smoked lamb sandwich at Yellow, the casual offshoot to chef Michael Rafidi’s more refined Albi, you may get shoulder or you may get leg meat tucked into your za’atar-dusted pita.

One place that I knew I wanted to visit was the small museum dedicated to Toulouse-Lautrec in the small town of Albi.

Half the fascination of Albi comes from its convincing inconsistencies.

The local saying is, Who has not seen the cathedral of Albi and the tower of Rodez has seen nothing.

The buttresses at Albi are in larger part hidden within the church under the guise of walls between the side chapels.

Seventeen years ago, I think you said: and in the woods near Albi?

Albi was the first head-quarters of the heresy, though Toulouse speedily rivalled its importance in this respect.