On a Sunday afternoon in August, Faith Alice Sleeper’s father stops by her table at the neighborhood bake sale. “I have an upset stomach,” he says. “What should I eat?” Sleeper has just the thing. “Booze and cupcakes?” she proposes. “Oh, yeah,” her papa replies, his voice brimming with sarcasm. “That’s exactly what I need.” [...]
Shaw's Tavern owner Abbas Fathi appeared before the District's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Wednesday in a bid to save his $1 million investment. The barely 13-day-old bar and restaurant ran afoul of the city's booze regulators before it even opened and has been relegated to serving only food while its legal situation gets sorted [...]
The Daily Meal on Monday released its "ultimate guide to Starbucks’ secret menu," threatening to expose all the java giant's exotic coffee combinations that only its coolest customers seem to know about. Armed with this arsenal of unique-sounding orders, Young & Hungry stopped by a few Starbucks on Tuesday to test D.C. baristas on their classified [...]
If you were hoping to have a brew at the newly opened Shaw's Tavern, you're going to have to wait a little bit longer. Eater DC noted the absence of alcohol last week, calling it a "teensy hiccup [...] that should be figured out by next week." More of a boozy burp, really. It turns [...]
If you think it's hot outside right now, try standing inside a food truck. "It's hotter in the truck—way hotter," says vendor Dinia Bautista. Her Best Mexican Burritos & Tortas buggy was one of seven food trucks serving patrons in the blazing heat at Farragut Square around 12:45 p.m. on Friday. The high temperatures, expected [...]
An interesting survey at District365 finds that it's mostly ladies who are writing D.C.-area food blogs. And by most, we're talking 93.87 percent of the online sites included in the poll. And the survey says? They're young, they're educated and they're taking over. Study author Rohan notes: "I wouldn’t be surprised if this partially explains [...]
The road to franchising your restaurant is paved with good intentions. Amsterdam Falafel proprietors Scott and Arianne Bennett would know: “To be honest, I was thinking about [franchising] from day one," says Scott. "We have a very franchisable model, so why not?” But, four years ago, when the Bennetts set out to open up a [...]
D.C. salad colossus Sweetgreen will be opening its tenth store in Foggy Bottom on Friday. (Guess the proprietors, Jonathan Neman, Nic Jammet, and Nathaniel Ru, weren't content with merely being the subject of City Paper's recent cover story.) But the leafy greens giant isn't the only new kid on this $175 million development block. Whole [...]
Brian Harrison, owner of The Reef, is the latest Adams Morgan restaurateur to publicly complain about his restrictive voluntary agreement with neighbors. Appearing before the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board on Wednesday, Harrison described his efforts to be a good neighbor—supporting “every bunny-hugging cause out there," he says—and expressed frustration about being treated just [...]
Y&H is still waiting to hear whether your favorite spot for wings and ours, Duffy's Irish Pub and Restaurant, will be allowed to expand its hours of operation. The D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board on Wednesday delayed a scheduled vote on whether to allow the venue to break its voluntary agreement with neighbors, which [...]
