Aspiring prosecco mecca Graffiato isn't the only D.C. pizzeria with wine on tap. 2Amys proprietor Peter Pastan recently debuted his own house wine: a “carbonic” sangiovese made in California at a vineyard co-owned by his wife and a former employee. Y&H alum Tim Carman takes a sip for WaPo, describing the wine as "incredibly drinkable, [...]
Sometimes I just want what I want. And what I wanted on a recent muggy Saturday night was simple: cold red wine. I know what you're thinking. Tacky, right? It flies in the face of conventional vino wisdom. White wine is served chilled; red not so much. And yet, there are exceptions virtually every where [...]
Urbana in Dupont Circle is having a birthday party. First, it needs friends. As part of its fifth anniversary celebration, beginning Tuesday night and lasting into next week, the restaurant and wine bar is offering a slew of promotional deals, including a free Margherita pizza with any purchase at the bar, provided you can first [...]
Check Out The Legs On This Pinot, Little One: New moms toiling in D.C.'s restaurant industry sometimes take their babies to work. Some even let their infants take a whiff of the wines. [WaPo] More Pie In Your Face, Osama: Restaurateur Jeff Black's Palisades stalwart BlackSalt earns a dubious celebrity mention. Hours before her husband's [...]
Useless Facts: Congrats D.C.! We didn't make the Daily Beast's list of cities with high numbers of franchise restaurants per 100,000 residents. But a number of Virginia cities did. When you crunch the numbers, Richmond is the capital of Olive Garden with three locations. (That's 1.5 locations per 100,000 residents.) Richmond is also the capital [...]
To those annoyed by the state of Maryland's regulations that prohibit out-of-state wineries from shipping directly to Old Line State residents, there's promising news in Annapolis. As the Baltimore Business Journal reported late last week, reform legislation was filed in the House and Senate on Friday. The Washington Post's Ann E. Marimow reported on Monday: [...]
According to a USA Today story and video, a Starbucks lab store in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood re-opened this Monday after a three-month redesign. In an effort to evolve the 40-year-old brand and boost evening business (since Starbucks does 70% of sales before 2:00pm), the new location is serving booze. That's right. You could soon be [...]
Welcome to the third installment of All About Eve, Young & Hungry’s behind-the-scenes glimpse of working at Restaurant Eve. You can read previous posts here. Ren and Stimpy. Felix and Oscar. Leonard and Guy. Leonard and Guy are two servers on the floor at Eve's Tasting Room. Leonard is 6-foot plus, wears terrific glasses, and [...]
Over the course of my long interview with Eli Hengst and Jared Rager in Blue Ridge's beer garden, we covered a lot of topics related to the owners' new approach to their Glover Park restaurant. One of them was the reason why Washingtonians are ditching wine for beer. "Part of it is a function of [...]
How To Open a Wine Bottle Without a Corkscrew on Howcast Believe it or not, Y&H encountered this very problem last night during a backyard grilling session in Georgetown. (More on the grilling session later today.) Fortunately, I remembered that I carry a corkscrew in the car (don't ask), but next time, I'll try one [...]
