The Summer Fancy Food Show, the largest specialty food and beverage trade show on the entire continent, descends on the Washington Convention Center, beginning on Sunday, July 10, and continuing through Tuesday, July 12. The hugely ballyhooed event features some 2,400 vendors hawking some 180,000 products—many of them holding claim to some new earth-shattering, mouth-watering [...]

Forget the food trucks, the pop-up restaurants, the European bakery and the tequila bar. What's establishing D.C. as a non-second-tier city? The arrival of the Summer Fancy Food Show. Okay. Maybe not. But it is coming nonetheless, July 10-12, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. And while there will be samples of more than 180,000 products, [...]