Take a peek inside the retail shell that will become the first District Taco location inside the actual District. [WaPo] Estadio owner Mark Kuller says there aren't many tapas bars in Spain any better than his own place right here in D.C. Admittedly, he's biased. [Washingtonian] Westend Bistro's Eric Ripert thinks National Airport's Matsutake Sushi [...]
Atlanta-based vegan-friendly pizzeria Mellow Mushroom opens its newest location on Monday at 2436 18th St. NW in Adams Morgan. The blog Junk Food Guy has an early look inside. Check out the menu here. Photo by Chris Shott
Hot on the heels of, arguably, reality TV's lowest moment, the venerable Always Hungry New York took up the challenge of deciding which town has the biggest and baddest Jumbo Slice — New York or D.C.? Now, this contest raises a logical question: Who cares? Isn't this like raising the question of which city has better [...]
My first impressions of the Cereal Bowl touched a nerve with readers last week, triggering a tidal wavelet of commentary, both pro and con, toward the chain restaurant dedicated to breakfast cereal. Or whatever that thing is in Cleveland Park. The quasi-review was, far and away, the most-read item of the week. Let's go to [...]
You'll excuse me if I can't muster the necessary enthusiasm for the Jumbo Slice episode of the Travel Channel's Food Wars, which is scheduled to air next Tuesday at 10 p.m. At one point, a friendly official with the Adams Morgan Partnership BID suggested I consider being a judge on the episode. I talked to [...]
I know, I know. Dedicating a day to vegetarian food is about as lame as Parents' Day and Veterans Day and Earth Day and all those other days in which you're supposed to pretend you're a friend to ________ ('rents,vets, the Earth, you name it) instead just another selfish weasel addicted to live Tweeting his thoughts [...]
Philly cheese steak: a true signature dish With this week's Young & Hungry column, we launch a new series called Stealing Home, in which we hunt for the best American regional dishes recreated right here in the metro area. The series is based on one idea: that D.C. has no signature dish to call its [...]
LL just got off the phone with a nearly manic Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham. Manic, because he says that he’s being unfairly deemed a pizza-banning legislator by a local TV station. “I have been in media for 30 years, and there’s never been a more preposterous story than this one,” he says. When WJLA-TV [...]
Thanks to the power of the internets, the first two spots on this week's list belong to posts from last week: one on the departure of Bill Catron from Brasserie Beck and the other on the Cameron Perks tragedy. After that, the Top 5 looks like this: The Sounds of Slurping: Get Ready for D.C. [...]
