Yang’s Fry-Dumpling in Shanghai Last month, we ran a RAMMY Awards contest in which we asked you, the reader, to submit your best dining experience from the past year. We had a number of good submissions, but your semi-friendly Y&H had the honor of picking the winner and the runner-up, who will both receive tickets [...]

Au Bout du Monde on Easter Island: like dining on another planet Last month, we ran a RAMMY Awards contest in which we asked you, the reader, to submit your best dining experience from the past year. We had a number of good submissions, but your semi-friendly Y&H had the honor of picking the winner [...]

As many of you know already, the James Beard Foundation Tweeted its way through the nominees this morning for its annual Beard Awards. The D.C. market fared well once again, both in the restaurant/chef and journalism categories. Don't worry, I'm not here to toot my own horn. I'm here instead to point out a potentially [...]

RAMMY organizers heard the public outcry and have responded in kind. This year's ceremonies will be completely revamped when the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington hands out its industry awards on June 6 at the Marriott Wardman Park. Gone is the multi-course, sit-down dinner in which the wait staff and clattering plates competed with the award [...]

Time to play catch-up here late on a Hump Day, which can mean only one thing: another round-up of food-related links. First up is the big news of the new year: the sudden departure of Cedric Maupillier from Central. WaPo's Tom Sietsema broke the news. Interestingly enough, Philly.com reported in November that Maupillier's replacement, Arthur [...]

If you don't know it by now, the key to a happy Restaurant Week boils down to this: Book a reservation at the best and most expensive (or at least not the mid-range or tapas) restaurants before anybody else. I say this because winter Restaurant Week was just announced earlier today. The dates will be [...]

Over on City Desk, Loose Lips Mike DeBonis has contacted a few of Dimitri P. Mallios' former colleagues who praise the liquor lawyer as someone who knew "how to represent folks in the hospitality industry and represent them well." Mallios, 77, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. Read all the tributes over on [...]

At the end of our discussion on Vidalia's Restaurant Week menu, owner Jeffrey Buben told Y&H about an experiment he conducted during last summer's promotion, which offers some evidence that the bi-annual RW event isn't as beneficial to restaurants as Open Table would like us to believe. Open Table conducted a survey in 2007, which [...]

Well, actually, Birchenall takes exception to part of my RAMMY Awards rant, in which I bitched and moaned about the crowded, tuxedoed sweat-shop ambiance of this year's event. Specifically, the editor and publisher of Foodservice Monthly wonders if I understand that this ceremony is not catering to me, the media, or the public. Writes Birchenall [...]

Stuffed with more than 1,000 folks from the local hospitality industry, the main ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel felt like a sauna in the Sahara on Sunday night. The sound system, poor at best, sometimes emitted shock waves that pierced the eardrums. The dinner consisted of several courses that no chef in the ballroom [...]