I have just one word for you: celebrities. Y’all love ‘em. They dominated the top two spots this week on the Young & Hungry blog.

1. Jessica Alba, Tom Hanks, and Others Seen Dining at D.C. Restaurants
2. Denzel, Dustin, and Tyra: You Know You Want to Know Where They Ate
3. Can’t Get into Your Favorite Restaurant on Inauguration Night? Just Wait
4. Inauguration Drinks: Party Like It’s 1829
5. Johnny’s Half Shell Figured Out How to Deal with Inaugural Traffic: Never Go Home

As you might have guessed, Inauguration Day/Obama posts captured most of the top spots:

1. Inauguration Eats: An Early Look at Obama-Related Food and Drink
2. Liberal Cause Alert: Protect Seals by Avoiding Canadian Seafood
3. New York Food Snobs: They Love Us. They Love Us Not.
4. Obama Doesn’t Know What a Half-Smoke Is? So What. Do You?
5. And, as predicted: Where Will Halle Berry Be Dining During the Inauguration?

Image by Flickr user tostie14

Without further ado, here are the week’s Top 5 posts (chopped down from the usual Top 10 in a symbolic offering to our increasingly nasty recession) from the Young & Hungry blog:

1. D.C. Restaurant Week Pushed Back to February *
2. Timmy G’s Ham Cruncher: The Sandwich That Glows
3. Want Some Shawarma? Head to Adams Morgan.
4. My Visit to Pat’s In Five Easy Pictures
5. Blagojevich Burgers: Available to the Highest Bidder

* Thanks to Gothamist, the No. 1 post for the week was actually this video.

Here, once again, are the Top 10 items from the week, as decided by you, the loyal reader:

1. NBC Washington Calls Lauriol Plaza the ‘Best Mexican Food in D.C.’

2. Food Tats: Cupcakes Are the New Skulls

3. The New Generation of Hershey’s Kisses Cookies for the Holidays

4. When Sex and Food Go Too Far

5. Finally, Scientific Evidence on America’s Best Tasting Mass-Production Beer

6. Todd Wiss Out as Executive Chef at Black’s Bar and Kitchen

7. Y&H Contest: Create Your Own Gross Holiday Cookie

8. Will the Economy Kill the Lunch Buffet?

9. NPR: Connecticut Takes On the Slimy Elements of the Olive Oil Business

10. The Matchbox Dare: Dry Your Hands in the ‘Airblade’