Late night nosh spot U Street Music Hall is shaking up its eclectic menu yet again. On Christmas Eve, the Northwest D.C. nightclub debuted its latest collection of interesting finger foods, including no fewer than six different variations of its original pho dog. The various new twists on the house-made Vietnamese soup-flavored frankfurter comes at [...]
ChiDogO's, one of a handful of specialty hot dog shops to open in the District of late, is shutting its doors on Nov. 11 after barely a year in business near the corner of 14th and U Streets NW. Prince of Petworth has the scoop. An employee confirmed the closure for Y&H last night. Its [...]
Man On The Street DC dropped by Friday's Truckeroo festival of mobile food vendors at Nationals Park and chatted up the operators. Some highlights: the gal from DC Empanadas dishes about the stupid questions she sometimes hears from patrons. "The truck very clearly says 'DC Empanadas'....It doesn't say sandwiches, falafel, tacos, burritos, hot dogs..." Hot [...]
A few weeks ago, Young & Hungry's Scott Reitz dug into D.C.'s current specialty hot dog renaissance. Although M’Dawg Haute Dogs tried to capitalize on this idea a few years ago, the Adams Morgan business fell flat. But that hasn't stopped newcomers, like ChiDogO's and DC-3. "The endeavor might seem gutsy considering how poorly M’Dawg [...]
Food trucks flooded our streets and Twitter feeds. Connecticut Avenue welcomed a whole lot of ground-meat options (and then kicked one out.) In an age of comfort food, family-style Italian filled our carb-deprived bellies. But will mobile food, burgers and comfort food dominate 2011? Will small plates finally die? Here's our break down on what [...]
Your interim Young & Hungry editor will soon be Michigan-bound for the Christmas weekend, heading to a land of Calvinism, chain restaurants, and Gerald R. Ford idol worship. (My District of Columbia relatives, apparently, were very upset with my grandmother for luring my Foggy Bottom born-and-bred grandfather away from the nation's capital back in the [...]
The last time someone tried to make hot dogs a culinary star in the District, it didn’t take. Amsterdam Falafelshop owners Scott and Arianne Bennett thought they had another hit when they opened M’Dawg Haute Dogs in 2007 on 18th Street NW across from their popular chick pea–and–frites place. Foodies were talking about it, and [...]
I'm not sure how Y&H missed this major news over the weekend, but Joey "Jaws" Chestnut officially became the Burrito King on Saturday at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque. He wolfed down 47 burritos in 10 minutes to win the competitive eating contest. Chestnut crushed the previous record of 33 1/2 burritos. The [...]
As a public service for those who are considering grilled commercial hot dogs this Labor Day weekend, Y&H presents an encore presentation of this video about how the links are made. Mmm, nothing like a geyser of corn syrup to improve flavor, not to mention a "liquid smoke shower."
Part of the joy and frustration of food trucks is hunting them down. With a hand-held device and a working Twitter account — assuming you don't run into this lazy whale — you can take part in the culinary equivalent of geocaching. Some days, of course, I don't find the food-truck-hunting game very entertaining (particularly [...]
