London's emphatically branded YO!Sushi chain, known for its snaky conveyor belt-style of service, is opening an outpost in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood. The new location is situated inside a vacant storefront right beside the Chinese Friendship arch, according to the Washington Post. Last September, a local franchisee announced plans to set up as many as 10 [...]
Burgeoning Virginia-based Five Guys is rarely Y&H's first choice for a burger. Consider the Dupont Circle location. There are so many other more tantalizing options nearby—Black & Orange, BGR: The Burger Joint, Shake Shack, to name a few—why even bother? But, there are a few insidious places on the planet that are so devoid of [...]
After more than 15 years of slinging suds to locals and tourists alike, the Capitol City Brewing Company location at Postal Square poured its last pints on Saturday. Fear not, fans of Amber Waves and other frothy house-made brews. You won't have to schlep all the way Capitol City's downtown location at 11th and H [...]
Young & Hungry colleague Lydia DePillis, in this week's Housing Complex column, examines the world of franchise flirtations. As was noted earlier this week, there was a big franchising expo at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center last weekend, which if you were there, gave a taste of what's coming to D.C.—or, at least, what [...]
The last time I was at a Bojangles was in February in the exurbs of Raleigh, N.C., on a Sunday. Since Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays, Bojangles' drive-through queue was long, packed with biscuit-seeking after-churchgoers. In the Carolinas, in the heart of Bojangles country, this is not an uncommon occurrence. On Thursday, Bojangles opened in [...]
Put Some South in Your Mouth: If you know anyone from the Carolinas, see their reaction when you tell them that Bojangles is opening at Union Station today at 2 p.m. [WBJ] A Nice Idea: Now that the weather is warming up (allegedly), it's time to think about enjoying a meal outside. How about at [...]
Few things drive traffic like controversy and free food, and we had plenty of both last week on Y&H. Sometimes they intersected in the same post, if you looked at all the comments from last week's Target "grocery" giveaway at Union Station. (Seeds, I guess, could one day turn into weekly groceries, but only if [...]
UPDATED: 1:45 p.m. 10/14/2010 This sounds like a joke, right, given the closest grocery store to Union Station is probably the Yes! Organic Market on Pennsylvania Avenue SE? The offer, however, appears legit. I have the corporate PR e-mail right here. It seems Target is celebrating its newly redesigned stores, which now feature fresh produce [...]
That cake-like log covered in glaze and chocolate that you bought this morning from Safeway? That's no eclair. So don't kid yourself, at least not today, because we're right in the middle of that hallowed holiday known as National Chocolate Eclair Day. Make no mistake, to produce a real eclair, a baker must prepare pâte [...]
Pizza, beer, and controversy. It's a regular menu for success on Young & Hungry. The most-popular posts this week include news of a second location of Pete's Apizza and an internecine battle between a pair of bagel store owners. The latter, in fact, was the most-read item (well, if you exclude the post about a [...]
