International Secrets: Where does the Belgian Embassy's chef like to eat when he's not cooking? Belga Café, naturally. Also, Et Voila, Brasserie Beck, and Marvin. [Eater D.C.] Trysts Everywhere! As the folks behind Tryst look to open a similar type of place in Columbia Heights, the owners of Fly Lounge are looking to open a [...]
Sorry. Young & Hungry has always loved Darrow Montgomery's photo of then-D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty with a dancing pancake at last fall's grand opening of IHOP in Columbia Heights. If you're in the mood for said pancakes, you might want to head on over to 14th and Irving streets NW to get your flapjack fill [...]
Who knew? The first-ever Giant Food grocery store opened at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Park Road in Park View. That was three-quarters of a century ago. Today at noon, a few blocks to the west at Giant's Tivoli location in Columbia Heights, members of Giant's two founding families, the Cohens and Lehrmans, were [...]
This past summer, I joined a food-writer colleague of mine for an adventurous Saturday tacos-and-tamales lunch in a nice Mexican lady's crowded kitchen. To get to said kitchen, we had to wait for a key to be tossed down from a second-story window of an apartment building. I've been informally calling it the Oaxacan Taco [...]
A friend of mine has been in the mood for pho. And the winter blast we're having makes for a perfect excuse to go seek out the traditional Vietnamese soup. I've been thinking of pho places accessible by public transit and within a 20-minute Metrorail ride of downtown D.C. I'm catching a movie tonight, and [...]
Rise and shine, flapjack freaks. You have a narrow, three-hour window in which to score some free pancakes, and the clock starts ticking at 6 this morning. So get those shoes on now and head to the new IHOP in Columbia Heights. To celebrate the opening of its 1,500th restaurant, IHOP is giving the first [...]
Maybe we should have less food porn on Y&H and more chef porn? Then again, I'm not sure this photo of David Guas qualifies in the latter category, but it would seem to redefine, at least for the readers who flocked to it, the idea of "arm candy." Take a look at your Top 5 [...]
The doors had barely been locked at Social when a local restaurateur sent me an e-mail yesterday, wondering what the place looked like. Said restaurateur has been prowling around for another location for awhile and thought the Columbia Heights spot might be appropriate. Well, he decided to make a spot check to Social last night. [...]
UPDATED: 5:22 p.m. 11/10/2010 Y&H has little information at this point, but according to a private e-mail I just received via Facebook, Mark Eisendrath's (brother of Ben) planned exhibit at Social| Creative, the artistic outlet at Social in Columbia Heights, has been canceled. The reason? The restaurant "will be closed for an indefinite period of [...]
Jackie Greenbaum, the restaurateur known for her eponymous industrial DayGlo eatery in Silver Spring, has signed a lease to open a casual Mexican restaurant in Columbia Heights. The tiny, 800-square-foot operation will be located at 3313 11th St., in a former liquor store, and will not only sell regional Mexican foods but also snacks inspired [...]
