This week's Young & Hungry column explores D.C.'s burgeoning gluten-free pizza scene and how even many of the city's upper-crust (ahem!) pizzerias are now offering non-traditional wheatless pies. Perhaps the latest joiner is the venerable Pizzeria Paradiso, which has been experimenting for months with a new homemade crust made from brown rice, sorghum, and buckwheat [...]
In the interest of fairness, most critics prefer to order only plain margherita pies when evaluating a pizzeria. Sticking to the basic elements helps ensure a level playing field when judging the overall goodness of one pizza versus another. At least in most cases. On a recent night at Ella’s Wood Fired Pizza in Penn [...]
Happy Chinese New Year! Some tasty places to celebrate: Zentan, Toki Underground and The Source by Wolfgang Puck. [We Love DC] Hungry for Chinese peasant food the way they used to make it? You know, during the rule of Mao Zedong? There's a book for that. [NPR] Iconoclastic Alamo Drafthouse aims to open in the [...]
This week's wealth of great beer across D.C. should make it easy to warm up for the holidays. 'Tis the season! Read on for a quick rundown of what''s going on, or click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for more details. On Monday, the Arrogant Bastard himself, Stone Brewing Company founder [...]
This week offers some sudsy alternatives to your significant other's work holiday party. Take your pick of this week's dinners and special keg tappings. Click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for more details, or read on for a few of my picks.
It's another busy week of beer to-do's. Read on for a few picks, but the full list and details are in my D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. The geek in me has to choose the one and only book-and-beer event this week, which is tonight at ChurchKey. Joshua M. Bernstein will be in the upstairs bar [...]
You'd think for as long as I've kept my public beer calendar, local bars would try to coordinate a little better by now. But a night like tonight, with a uniquely high number of beer events, is only a problem for people like me—those so bonkers for beer that they seriously consider bellying up to [...]
The leaves are turning colors and those sweet, red orbs are calling for you to come pick them. Fall means apples and Pizzeria Paradiso is celebrating the autumnal fruit all week, at least at the Georgetown location. The festival kicks off tonight with a five-course apple-inspired pairing dinner with ciders, apple beers, and apple liqueurs. Featured [...]
Pizzeria Paradiso in Old Town is taste-testing a new gluten-free dough tonight and asking area eaters to participate. The pizza is free. Results my vary. "All we ask is your opinion," according to the restaurant's Twitter feed. Email info@eatyourpizza.com for more, um, info. Photo by PDPhoto.org
Early last month, I tantalized your taste buds with tales of Sixpoint Brewing Company's imminent arrival in D.C. The time has finally come. The Brooklyn-based brewery will be bringing their beer into the District starting this week, and it's entering D.C. with a series of launch parties across the city. The outfit bringing Sixpoint to [...]
