Casa Nonna in Dupont Circle is rolling out its new Italian-style street-side gelato cart on Thursday. Folks dropping by between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. receive free scoops. Full details below:
New York chef Marcus Samuelsson, who famously hosted President Obama at a $1.5 million fundraiser inside the cook's Harlem eatery Red Rooster last spring, is rolling into the District on a national food truck tour for charity on Friday. Samuelsson will be dishing out free food but gladly accepting donations on behalf of the hunger [...]
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 [...]
As far as promotions go, this one is pretty simple: Wear your smug "I Voted" sticker (one that you got at a polling station, not one that you tore off your co-worker's chest in anger) and get a free taco today at California Tortilla. It's a promotion with a civic mind. Well, to a degree. [...]
Somehow it seems wrong to celebrate an anniversary and give your guests a gift. But from the moment doors open at 10 a.m. today, Hello Cupcake will pass out its namesake treats for free as part of its second anniversary celebration. I suspect people will be lining up outside the door on Dupont Circle well [...]
Not Heineman's gazpacho. Like so many other restaurateurs these days, Grapeseed chef and owner Jeff Heineman is just trying to get folks in the door. His latest ploy is to give away free soup to all his friends on Facebook — and to all the fans of a Facebook group devoted to people who hate [...]
Y&H will happily play the corporate shill when it comes to free food. Hey, with this economy, I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you about an opportunity to dine for nothing. The latest to throw sweet (spicy, actually) nothings at us is Pollo Campero, the Latin American chicken chain with the mascot who's only [...]
Thefoodpeople, a product-development company based in England, offers a number of predictions on the future of food. The people's forecast includes the usual stuff—home cooking, in-home drinking, head-to-tail cooking, etc—but it also notes the potential rise of "free food," including foraging. I offer just two words of caution: Nicholas Evans.
