Has the quality of Washington's food scene evolved to match that of even vaunted New York? Well, maybe in one category. WaPo food columnist and Y&H alum Tim Carman recently challenged New Yorker Ed Levine of Serious Eats to a seven-course smackdown, pitting the two cities' best cheap eats in a contest judged by both [...]
Graduates of L’Academie de Cuisine, the prestigious Maryland cooking school, generally don’t aspire to flip burgers in the back of a dive bar. And yet there’s Amber Bursik, class of 2007, putting her expensive culinary education to work in the noble pursuit of elevating the salty bar snack. Spiced pecans, anyone? “I was joking around [...]
Zagat’s updated "2012 Washington, DC/Baltimore Restaurants Survey," is officially released on Wednesday. In it, you'll find D.C.'s most popular restaurants listed as follows: Zaytinya, 2 Amys, Central, Citronelle, Inn at Little Washington. And the city's top rated places for food: Marcel’s (29 out of 30 points), Inn at Little Washington (29) Komi (29), CityZen (28), [...]
Dishes We Dug: Maine-style lobster roll (pictured) at Luke's Lobster; baked beans with burnt ends at Hill Country; chapulines (sautéed grasshoppers) at Oyamel; fried zeppoles with rum crème anglaise at Policy. Dishes We Didn't: Slow cooked beef brisket on a potato roll at The Diner–dry enough to qualify as jerky. Venues Notably Missing From City [...]
Now Open: In Cleveland Park, Palena's retail shop, featuring "pasta from Naples, olive oil from Liguria, toasted cornmeal, local honey and Pronto coffee," started operations on Friday. Also, Peregrine Espresso has opened its second location, at 14th Street NW between R and S streets. [WaPo; DCist] Wisconsin Avenue Trio? The local burger chain Z-Burger, which [...]
Cleveland Park certainly saw a weekend chock full of food-related public safety activity! First, Medium Rare, which recently opened on the Connecticut Avenue strip, reported a robbery early Saturday morning, when the assailant, according to neighborhood blog Cleveland Park 2.0, "pointed a gun at the two employees and demanded money. The employees gave the man [...]
Name: Sara Siegel Title: Sous Chef/Pastry Chef Restaurant: Ba Bay Twitter: @BaBayDC Cooking Since: About 5 years professionally. I went to Florida State for a year. I always knew cooking was my passion but wanted a business degree. But then I thought it was a waste of time so I went to the French Culinary Institute [...]
While milling around Cleveland Park on a weekend walking tour, I ducked into the recently expanded Palena Cafe and Restaurant and spoke to general manager Sarah McCarty. She was nice enough to let me snap a few photos and tell me more about the changes at the newly opened space. While the cafe has expanded [...]
No one needs to tell you to visit Frank Ruta’s precision-cooking operation in Cleveland Park, whether his cafe or the more formal dining room in back, and I hesitated to include it on my list. The obviousness of the choice pains me to a degree. But making room for Palena gave me another chance to [...]
If you want to understand the difference between Meaza and every other Ethiopian joint in the area, just look down at your table. That spongy pancake dimpled with about a zillion little moonlike craters? You know the name: injera. Owner Meaza Zemedu makes her own in house, which, in a certain sense, makes Meaza the [...]
