One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return. Enough about the [...]
French Non-Resistance: Petits Plats goes Italian with Pizze. It's a sign of the times that local restaurateurs continue to place their trust in the good ol' Italian pie. Cheaper to produce than many other dishes — and one with an expansive, built-in fan base — pizza has become the low-risk option for a number of new and/or [...]
One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return. If I were [...]
To many, Rasika has become the go-to Indian eatery in the District, but starting this summer, Rasika will also be available to go. Well, at least the restaurant's most popular sauces. Rasika owner Ashok Bajaj told Y&H this afternoon that three of chef Vikram Sunderam's sauces will be available, starting in July, at Whole Foods [...]
It was a subject neither Ashok Bajaj nor Y&H really wanted to broach, but there it was, lying like a dead body in the trunk of a car: the restaurant credit-card scam, as reported on Sunday by The Examiner. The paper wrote that three men were apparently buying stolen credit card numbers from servers at [...]
The nominees for the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards were announced this morning, and the big local winners were the Washington Post and José Andrés with three noms each. Technically, I guess you could say that Andrés, aside from nods for best new restaurant, outstanding chef, and web/radio, shared a fourth nomination, too. His boffo [...]
When Galileo was forced to leave town in 2006, downtown D.C. was left with only a handful of decent Italian restaurants, including Tosca and the woefully underrated Spezie. But in recent months, the dearth has turned into a near glut. (Relax, you word mavens; I understand that "near glut" has all the contradictory overtones of [...]
A friend of Young & Hungry's recently e-mailed to ask about gift-certificate etiquette: Do you present the certificates to your server at the end of the meal or right at the beginning? "I always feel that with the latter," writes my buddy, Lou, "that the staff goes 'Ugh, one of these types,' and you get [...]
Fresh off the renovations at The Bombay Club, which helped earn it a 2 1/2-star re-review from Tom Sietsema on Sunday, owner Ashok Bajaj plans to overhaul his 701 restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue NW just in time for its 20th anniversary next year. Bajaj says the renovations at 701 will be extensive, probably in the [...]
Of all the restaurants that Ashok Bajaj owns, I had always ranked 701 at the bottom, mostly because I had never been there, but also because, I'll admit, its address right on Pennsylvania Avenue made me think it was catering to government fat cats, not serious diners. My first visit to 701 has reshaped my [...]
