Though I’m not enamored with nachos, my post earlier this week set off a craving. EatBar’s Monday night football menu promised an interesting version spiked with venison chili. The nachos were fine, but it was the rooster sauce wings on the menu that grabbed me. I’ve always been a Frank’s sauce purist, but sriracha has [...]
On paper, Northside Social makes about as much sense as a drive-through steakhouse. A coffee shop, a wine bar and a gourmet pastry/sandwich shop? Right. After 5 p.m., the communal table upstairs and its smattering of surrounding two-tops becomes a full-service wine bar under sommelier Alison Christ’s smart and unassuming direction. Believe me, her internationally [...]
Not that I was actively looking for it, but I finally found Eventide’s weakness: its brunch menu, into which chef Miles Vaden has injected a little whimsy and sophistication in an attempt to shake up that most predictable of services. The dish I’m thinking about specifically is the BPLT, the standard three-ingredient sandwich but with [...]
Two years after they launched their successful Columbia Heights pizzeria, the owners of Pete's Apizza are set to open a second store on Wednesday, June 16, in a former consignment shop at 4940 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Well, actually, the new Pete's will occupy two former storefronts on Wisconsin Avenue, all the better to meet your [...]
Note: We're publishing the entire Young & Hungry column on the blog so you can enjoy Darrow Montgomery's photography, which has its own story to tell. In the land of the over-stimulated mermaid, the landscape is always the same: the tiny tables crowded with laptap squatters, lost in their ear buds and their private worlds, [...]
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 [...]
Until Justin Stegall recently opened his own place in the Zoso Flats building (cue "Black Dog," dude) in Clarendon, he was sort of a phantom presence on the scene. His cupcakes could be found at java shops like Chinatown Coffee Co., but he was always just a name, sometimes just a first name, without either face or [...]
If you ever had any doubts about a dish's ability to cross cultural boundaries, all you need to do is look at the trajectory of chicken and waffles. Once considered a staple of soul-food joints, chicken and waffles has become a fixture at trendy neighborhood operations like Marvin and Creme, where gentrification has ensured that [...]
A meaty homage to Michel Richard? 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 [...]
There's something about Clarendon that makes you expect mediocrity. Maybe it's…well, all the mediocre restaurants in the area. Not bad restaurants, but not great ones either. Just a dull, gray sea of eateries hoping their exorbitant rents won't sink them before they can sell enough overpriced cocktails and mid-grade fare to stay afloat. The Liberty [...]
