This past weekend a good friend and I attended the Shuck It! Oyster and Craft Beer Festival hosted by Tony & Joe’s in Georgetown. As I am recapping the event for another publication, I won’t write too much about it here. I will, however, post a few photos I took at the event and get…
There is a price to quality ratio which stands firmly at the core of every chain burger restaurant that pops up in the U.S. nowadays. It’s a ratio that reflects the priorities of the founder – whether to make a huge profit or to be the good guy that doesn’t, whether to attract the very…
On a recent foray in Georgetown I happened upon some goodies that made me pretty darn homesick. One ingredient in particular was enough to make me feel this way – poppy seeds ground up and mixed with sugar and apricot jam or honey to produce a thick, dense filling for a pastry which in Hungary is called…
Logan Circle is full of trendy, fun, gastropub-chic restaurants opened by chefs with a fresh take on cuisine. One of them is Drafting Table, which combines the pretense- and gimmick-free culinary concept of restauranteur Aaron Gordon with the talent of chef Ciji Wagner (ex pastry chef at Red Velvet Cupcakery) and adds a touch of…
Craving a sweet treat? I found my new favorite one this past week at BakeHouse in Logan Circle. It’s their Ice Cream Sandwich, made with freshly baked peanut butter cookies, homemade strawberry jam and peanut butter ice cream. I really can’t say enough good things about it. The cookies are crumbly, buttery and tremendously comforting,…
Drop your Walter White/Miley at the VMAs Halloween costumes (seriously…put them down…) and head over to Oyamel Concina Mexicana for the real thing. For the 2 weeks between October 21st and November 3rd, José Andrés and his culinary team has put together a great array of offerings inspired by one of Mexico’s most important and influential…
When I was invited to dine at Piola on 14th the other night, I felt a dash of déjà vu. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had been there before, yet in a different time and different environment. It wasn’t until I found out that Piola has Palermo and Barrio Norte outposts in Buenos Aires…
I have serious beef with bad mojitos. The animosity is rooted in a few too many Happy Hour specials of horrible house rum and lime mix, some bitter, waxy mint leaves force-muddled in. To this day, I remain highly skeptical when someone offers me one. It’s why when I was told that mojitos were the…
I can still picture that wide, California sunshine grin on my host friend’s face as he told me, “Don’t make dinner plans for Monday night.” I didn’t. As we had for many of our meals on this Bay Area trip, my Belgian travel buddy and I left restaurant selection up to him, fully confident that…
Mua in Oakland is too cool for school. The set up? A repurposed industrial building with an ex-warehouse-y feel, plenty of exposed brick and junkyard chic chandeliers. Upon entering, one walks through a narrow foyer, along a very long bar to the right, until arriving at the host stand flanking the dining room. The space…
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