Posts Tagged ‘Lunch’

Quick Feeding: Lunch on H Street; Spike’s Crystal City Chick-Fil-A Scouting Trip?

Lunch Blossoms on H Street NE: If you find yourself in the H Street corridor during a weekday and hungry for lunch, there are many new options available, thanks to the Argonaut starting lunch service on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, among others. Here's a larger list. [H Street Great Street] Easy Pour: The newest place [...]

A Glutton’s Remorse

The non-descript doorway off an alley near Dupont Circle looks like a fallout shelter left over from the Cold War, and it isn’t always easy to find. But in its heyday, you knew you were on the way to Well Dressed Burrito if you followed the lunchtime trail of people carrying bright yellow bags out [...]

D.C. Food Trucks Planning Impromptu Franklin Square Fest

Attention food truck fans! Head on down to Franklin Square on Monday for lunch as a swarm of the city's beloved mobile food vendors will be gathering for a winter party of sorts. Think Curbside Cookoff, only smaller. A food truck community organizer tells Young & Hungry that after a recent meeting among different truck [...]

Readers Respond to Furstenberg’s Departure and Theory on Comfort Foods for Lunch

Mark Furstenberg's surprise decision to leave G Street Food, just months after opening the place dedicated to international street foods, came with an equally surprising theory: that people may not crave curious foodstuffs for lunch. At least that was Furstenberg's current idea as to why G Street started so slowly. Y&H asked for your thoughts [...]

Breadline Back in Business. If You’re a Fan, You Should Go.

      Just a week after it was closed for 19 violations of the D.C. food code, Breadline was back in business today. To the naked eye, the sandwich shop didn't look so different from its "excessive live fruit fly" phase. I did notice meticulous, hand-written expiration dates on the lemonade drinks and that [...]

The University of Florida Arrives, Dines, and Dashes

The 225 University of Florida athletes who lunched today at Old Ebbitt Grill arrived 15 minutes late, which meant that the cooks and servers had 15 fewer minutes to get this massive crew in and out the door. It was a damn impressive performance in the kitchen and on the dining room floor. Along the main, two-tier stainless-steel counter [...]

How to Feed 225 Hungry University of Florida Athletes

The line cooks at Old Ebbitt Grill know how to handle pressure. They're used to cranking out 2,000 meals a day, says General Manager Kyle Gaffney, but today will be different. Several teams from the University of Florida, including the national championship football squad, will be eating lunch at the Grill, starting at 11:15 a.m., [...]

Lunch Call: Eat at Jackson’s Roasting and Carving Co.

Many of you, I suspect, will be too busy with Thanksgiving preparations today to jump into the car and fetch lunch. But for those who still need a mid-day break while pushing around papers and hiding your facebook page from the boss, I have something you might like: a make-our-own Reuben at Jackson's Roasting and [...]