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September 9, 2012
Members in the News | By Glenn Collins , The New York TimesSeptember 10, 2012IT seems an impossible dream, if not the one that the Man of La Mancha crooned onstage. But here it goes: Over the next decade, dozens of American cooks schooled in the authentic cooking of Spain and trained in Spanish restaurants will begin to populate the United States. In due time, hundreds, then thousands, will serve up a cuisine that is...
September 6, 2012
Members in the News | By Jessica Sidman , Washington City Paper September 7, 2012Just days before the opening of a new Rockville restaurant, Chef Geoff's owner Geoff Tracy tells Dining Bisnow he and his family are moving to New York.Tracy, who's lived in the Washington since 1991, explains that his wife Norah O'Donnell has a new job as co-host of CBS This Morning. "That's an opportunity that as a family we just...
August 30, 2012
Members in the News | By Clinton Yates for The Root DC LiveAugust 31, 2012 At first sight, you might call it the Mount Rushmore of Half-Smokes. Or maybe the Four Horsemen of the Chili-pocalypse. Personally, I’ll go with the Ben’s Wall of Fame. Whatever you choose to nickname the new mural that adorns the outside wall of D.C.’s iconic Ben’s Chili Bowl, you have to admit: It’s beautiful....
August 30, 2012
Members in the News | By By Alex Spillius for The Telegraph August 31, 2012It is election year in Washington, and among those probably hoping for another Barack Obama victory are the city’s restaurant owners.They might never admit to any bias, but such is the enthusiasm for eating out of the modish couple currently occupying the White House that few in the trade would want to see them go. A local foodie...
August 28, 2012
Members in the News | The Future of Restaurants Morethan 350 gathered at the Park Hyatt hotel early on Wednesday, August 29for an two engaging panel discussions on the future of restaurants. Thefocus was local. RAMW President Lynne Breaux led the firstgroup through a great dialogue that touched on issues of sustainability, dining trends and the health of the DC area's restaurantindustry.Read more
August 24, 2012
Members in the News | By Missy Frederick, Washington Business Journal August 24, 2012Bart Vandaele was a trendsetter when he opened Belga Cafe on Barracks Row in 2004. It wasn’t just that he was staking a claim in a restaurant-starved neighborhood back then — at that point, Belgian restaurants in Washington were a rarity in and of themselves.Read the full article.
August 23, 2012
Members in the News | By Natalia Moreno , We Love DCAugust 24, 2012 It was a rainy, grey Sunday, which in my book usually means a day spent in bed, catching up on emails while watching some god-awful reality show that makes me question humanity as we know it. But the saving grace this Sunday was Anthony Lombardo, Executive Chef at 1789 Restaurant. He greeted me with a smile and a cup of coffee presented in a large...
August 23, 2012
Members in the News | By Mohana Ravindranath, The Washington Post August 24, 2012 R.L. Boyd, executive chef at Georgetown’s Mie N Yu restaurant, loves inventing new dishes.Most recently, he came up with an elaborate preparation of rockfish, set on a bed of crab fried rice—short grain brown rice, not white—with a red curry, ginger, carrot, and Tamari sauce. After he prepared it, he took a picture of...
August 21, 2012
Members in the News | By Gary Stoller, USA TODAYAugust 20, 2012Excerpt " . . .On the East Coast, Zagat recommends Washington's C.F. Folks, New York's Num Pang, Boston's Flour Bakery & Café, Atlanta's Rising Roll, Baltimore's Attman's Delicatessen, and Fort Lauderdale's LaSpada's Original Hoagies.C.F. Folks on 19th Street Northwest in Washington, D.C., is a "lunch-only hole-in-the-wall that's...
August 21, 2012
Members in the News | Post on Huffington Post August 20, 2012 WASHINGTON -- President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dined with a handful of lucky grassroots campaign supporters on Monday evening, the latest iteration of the president's re-election "Dinner With Barack" fundraising contest series.While the president's schedule did not disclose the location of the "local restaurant," all signs...
August 19, 2012
Members in the News | Original Article: 10 of America's Best Historic Restaurants , By Amanda Kludt, CNN August 20, 2012In an article published Monday, Old Ebbitt Grill kicked off CNN's list of 10 of AMerica's best historic restaurants. "...Washington icon the Old Ebbitt Grillhas been attracting the likes of presidents and beltway movers and shakers since its opening in 1856. It is the city's oldest bar and...
August 16, 2012
Members in the News | By Stephie Hass for Washington Life Magazine August 16, 2012In an ongoing series, Washington Life sits down with some of the area’s best pastry chefs to see where D.C. desserts are heading.Chef Fabrice Bendano was born in Paris and found himself drawn to the culinary field from an early age. He worked at several top restaurants in Europe before arriving in Washington in fall 1999 to work...
August 16, 2012
Tidbits | By Missy Frederick for The Washington Business JournalWednesday, August 15, 2012The General Services Administration's decision to freeze its per diem rates at fiscal year 2012 levels means the agency rejected a controversial alternative that would have affected many D.C. hotels.The GSA was considering an alternative that would recalculate the per diem rates used by government travelers...
August 10, 2012
Sustainability | Sustainable seafood lowers costs, adds flavor at restaurantsBy Fern Glazer for Nation's Restaurant News August 9, 2012Asthe sustainable food movement continues to grow, it’s spreading from the farm to the sea. And though it takes some effort to become educated about what to serve and what to avoid, many chefs and operators are finding that serving sustainable seafood can actually be less...
August 10, 2012
Members in the News | From FOODSERVICE MONTHLY'S Sauce on the SideAugust 10, 2012Rising star chefs from Washington DC representing the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW)and anchored by RAMMY Chef of the Year Vikram Sunderam from Rasika showed off their culinary skills with a stellar performance Monday nightat the James Beard House in New York City. Dinners at the old home of James...