Pete's will be riding the storm out. For those who didn't stock the pantry in preparation for the Armageddon — sorry, snowmageddon — you might consider braving the elements and heading to a nearby restaurant. A number are doggedly riding out the storm this weekend. Here's our working list. Please add to it as you [...]
Granted leave from the hubby’s ongoing chili investigations for the evening, I stopped by Balducci’s on Old Georgetown Road to snag (I hoped) a spinach empanada off the hot bar before returning home. Passing by the cheese zone, I glanced over and saw... Burrata! Burrata! Not that yellowy stuff that tries to impersonate burrata, either, [...]
Dean Gold is giving it away...for Haitian relief It's time for some housekeeping here at Y&H Central. Lots of news has passed through our inbox and computer screen. Here are the highlights: Following a slammed Restaurant Week, Hook and chef Jonathan Seningen parted ways; yesterday the Georgetown seafood emporium announced a replacement, former Blue Duck [...]
Tonight officially kicks off winter D.C. Restaurant Week, which means that if you haven't already secured your reservations to the city's finest, priciest dining rooms, you're pretty much screwed. Because, let's be honest, if you're not hitting the most expensive restaurants, you're not getting much bang for your buck during RW. Once you start figuring [...]
Like a lot of chefs these days, Dean Gold, the boss man at Dino, buys whole animals. In his case, he buys whole Pekin ducks via D'Artagnan and butchers them in-house for the breast meat and legs. Some of the leftovers are reserved for stock. The neck skin and the offal, however, Gold saves for a sausage antipasto that [...]
Following Y&H's recent column on Italian restaurants in or near downtown D.C., a reader wondered why I didn't include Dino among the contenders for Galileo's heavyweight crown. I had a simple answer: Dino isn't in or near downtown D.C. But last fall, I did chime in on Dino after owner Dean Gold installed himself as [...]
Earlier today, my bud Lou sent me this crappy picture, which sent me on a mission to figure out if Whole Foods' burrata could possibly compare to the trendy little sack of creamy goodness coming out of Italy. I should say right from the start that I went about my task without the benefit of, [...]
While driving down Connecticut Avenue yesterday, I noticed the paper in the windows at Dino and the hand-made sign announcing that the rustic Italian restaurant was "freshing up for your comfort." I had to know just how comfortable I'd soon be at Dino, so I emailed chef/owner Dean Gold. The sign, it seems, was more [...]
