In the Baguette: Paul, the Parisian bakery, cuts the ribbon on its first U.S. location flagship (pictured) right here in D.C. So what if it's a chain? [Greater Greater Washington] Presidential Pickle: Which fancy burger would Obama like best? [Eater DC] The Burger Bridge: Brooklyn is beginning to look a lot like Arlington, with D.C.-area [...]
A county health inspector shut down the Arlington Farmers Market outpost of the Maryland bakery chain Atwater's on Saturday morning for selling muffins, scones and a dozen different bread loaves without individual packaging. The bust took place within an hour of the market's 8 a.m. opening, according to bakery general manager Tim McGuire. Atwater's sells [...]
This week's Young & Hungry column delves into the coffee-shop-cum-wine-bar-cum-bakery known as Northside Social, which is one of two new projects (the other being Lyon Hall) from the team behind Liberty Tavern. Northside has a rather painful genesis: Owner Stephen Fedorchak and his partners slowly pieced together their Frankenshop after deep-sixing their original plan, a [...]
Eagle-eye Carrie spotted this monstrosity at our local Shoppers Food Warehouse, where the bakery department either has a good sense of humor or is bored out of its skull. Yes, it's my first ever St. Paddy's Day bagel. Erin go bupkis! What about you, Y&H Nation? I'm curious about what kind of green-tinted tummy rumblers you've [...]
Note: In preparation for Young & Hungry's baguette column next week (not this week, as previously reported here), we stopped at Marvelous Market, originally founded in 1990 by Mark Furstenberg, to see how the local institution is faring so many years after Furstenberg was essentially forced to sell his much-beloved bakeries. The heavy wooden beams [...]
The best thing about getting my taxes finished this week — well, aside from getting my taxes finished this week — is that I got to visit my CPA's offices in Gaithersburg, home of Hot Breads & Cakes, the area's only outlet of the large Indo-French fusion chain that began more than 10 years ago [...]
