Y&H is very late to the game on this one, but earlier this month, Washington Jewish Week broke the news that the JCC Cafe, an independent kosher dining room inside the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, had been shut down for violating kashrut standards.

It’s a juicy story about replacing kosher meats with Safeway sirloin steaks and a lame attempt by the cafe staff to cover up the violation. Here’s the pertinent section from reporter Richard Greenberg’s story:

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One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return.

Three different vehicles have taken up residence at the back end of a massive parking lot that serves the Safeway grocery store at 514 Rhode Island Ave. NE. One is a converted 1995 school bus now outfitted with deep-fryers, prep tables, and coolers. The second is a square white panel truck that hauls around a giant generator, and the final is a beat-up red Chevy 1500 pickup with an equally well-used Southern Pride smoker propped up on cinder blocks in the bed.

This sprawling mobile barbecue empire belongs to Fate Pittman, a 73-year-old pitmaster who has been smoking pork, beef, and chicken for more than 30 years. Except no one calls Pittman by his family name. Everyone knows him by the handle painted onto his vehicles: Mr. P.

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