Drown your inevitable frustrations with the beleaguered Washington Redskins in authentic D.C. chili cheese fries this fall. Iconic U Street eatery Ben's Chili Bowl is opening two new concession stands at FedEx Field. WaPo sports blogger Dan Steinberg has the scoop: "Ben’s will have kiosks at section 341 in the club level and section 420 [...]
Poor Boy? On today's dining chat at Washingtonian, Todd Kliman takes a closer look at Bayou and notes that Rusty Holman's po' boys are, well, expensive. "The po' would be hard-put to come up with the change to eat any one of these, however. The cost at dinner is $17; even with two good sides [...]
It's been said that the half-smoke is the closest thing the District gets to having a recognizable homegrown food product. The half-smoke, of course, is most associated with Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street NW, which this week donated its papers and artifacts to George Washington University's Africana Research Center. (Washington City Paper's 2007 cover [...]
In honor of this morning's historic earthquake, we here at Y&H Central offer a few suggestions on where you can knock back a shake to mark the occasion: Good Stuff Eatery: There's a reason why people continue to hype Spike Mendelsohn's shakes. They're hand-spun with a custard base and just a hint of yogurt to [...]
Because I know this has been keeping you up at night — at least last night — Y&H has been tirelessly digging to find out what exactly French president Nicolas Sarkozy and first lady Carla Bruni ate during their visit yesterday to Ben's Chili Bowl. The accounts yesterday conflicted wildly. I have twice tried to talk [...]
French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, former supermodel Carla Bruni, dropped all pretense to haute cuisine this afternoon and dropped by Ben's Chili Bowl, the home of the famous half-smoke and PR-damaged politicians everywhere. But what exactly did Sarkozy and Bruni eat while at Ben's? The Washington Post reported that the president and first [...]
At 72, Bill Cosby might be at an age when his doctor looks the comedian dead in the eye and says, "Bill, I'm telling you, if you want to see 73, lay off the half-smokes." Well, if Cos has ever heard those words, he's not heeding them. Nizam Ali, youngest son of founders Virginia and the late [...]
Yesterday, readers of the Young & Hungry newsletter (hint, hint: sign up at right) got first word on who won the D.C. Dish Hall of Fame. Today, we tell everyone the results of our debut contest, which we launched back in October with the idea of sussing out the dishes that best define the D.C. metro area. [...]
The D.C. Dish Hall of Fame leaderboard remains virtually unchanged after a week of voting, save for the flip-flop of the ninth and tenth place dishes. After a strong surge last week, Horace & Dickie's fried whiting moves up a notch into ninth place. But I have to say, I think the list is still [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Y&H asked you to nominate the entrees and appetizers and desserts that you felt were worthy of inclusion into a D.C. Dish Hall of Fame. Y'all tore into the assignment like a pack of wolves on a dead carcass. I received Tweets, personal e-mails, and lots of suggestions via the [...]
