Another week, another long list of blog items to review to learn which were your faves. No surprise: Anthony Bourdain still rocks your world. Watch the Deleted Eamonn's Segment from Bourdain's 'No Reservations' Show on D.C. Gastrosexuals Are the New Metrosexuals The Oyster Experience from Hell Here's One Thing You Can Do with Leftover Cadbury [...]
Funny thing, but Y&H was supposed to serve as Anthony Bourdain's tour guide for this trip to Eamonn's A Dublin Chipper in Old Town, a segment that ultimately didn't make the cut for the recent D.C. episode of No Reservations. [Watch the deleted segment here.] But by the time I was done showing Bourdain around [...]
The Best of D.C. issue dominated readers' attention this week on Young & Hungry, including my mea culpa about Best New Restaurant. It's nice to see that teeth-gnashing confessionals haven't lost their power to attract attention. Best of D.C.: A Confession About Best New Restaurant Best of D.C.: Which New Restaurant Deserves Top Honors? Things [...]
Leave it to Anthony Bourdain to cut through all the PR crap about the economy's effect on restaurants. He tells Nation's Restaurant News that the recession is a serious wake-up call for operations that still think they can soak diners with overpriced wine and liquor. Says Bourdain: On the other hand, there’s going to be [...]
Yes, I watched some of the Top Chef reunion show last night, and let me say this right from the start: The main reason Fabio won fan fave is because Americans are still suckers for Italian accents. Could this show have been less about the art and craft of cooking? That Baldies-with-Photoshopped-Hair segment? Jump. The. Shark. Time. Whoa, [...]
The new El Pollo Rico in Wheaton looks as if it were actually designed for its intended purpose—selling those browned beauties pulled from the charcoal rotisserie. Unlike its previous location just a block or two away, this Pollo Rico spot is both stylish and functional. The stylish elements—the upscale advertising posters, the French bistro paintings—don't [...]
How busy was it at Busboys & Poets on 14th Street NW during inaugural weekend? Well, according to owner Andy Shallal, it was so busy that three employees quit, including a manager. "They just cracked and left...I had one employee just say, ‘I can't do this'" and walk out, says Shallal during a phone conversation [...]
I hadn't eaten at Brasserie Les Halles in months, and probably longer than a year, when word of its demise reached me. My memory of the place was decidedly mixed: I admired its steak frites but hated its increasingly corporate attitude. The lowlight for me came earlier this year when I walked into Les Halles, [...]
This news just crossed my desk: The D.C. branch of Brasserie Les Halles, best known as one of Anthony Bourdain's last remaining ties to the kitchen, has closed or will be closing, according to a short item in the Washington Post. If you read through the comments on the Post's item, there is some confusion [...]
