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December 4, 2012
Members in the News | From SousChefSeries2012.comAt Ashby Inn, where Nathan Shapiro is the sous chef, the entire kitchen staff numbers three, Shapiro included. The team has found ways to capitalize on their labor, and a pressure cooker is one shortcut.Shapiro, who worked at the Inn at Little Washington before joining the team at Ashby Inn, makes stocks and beans in the pressure cooker, but also uses the appliance to...
November 8, 2012
Press Release | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (November 9, 2012) - Former director of DC Motion Picture and TV Development Kathy Hollinger has accepted the position as the new president of Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW). Hollinger, who assumes the presidency on December 15, 2012, succeeds Lynne Breaux, who announced in July that she would not be renewing her contract.“We are...
November 6, 2012
Members in the News | By Jessica Sidman, Washington City PaperNovember 7, 2012Pick up a menu the next time you’re out to eat, and oddsare your eye will drift over to the top right corner. Restaurateurs know this. That’s why they often list their most profitable dishes there.As you continue looking through your options, you’ll first take note of the one or two items on top, then skim through the...
November 2, 2012
Hot Topics | By Elissa Elan, National Restaurant Association BlogOctober 24, 2012A few local lawmakers in Washington, D.C., say a ban on large-sized sugary beverages, similar to the one passed last month in New York City, is a sweet idea for the nation's capital.Council members Michael Brown and Vincent Orange recently discussed the idea of a ban during a debate between candidates campaigning for office in...
October 20, 2012
Members in the News | By Abha Bhattarai, Capital BusinessOctober 21, 2012On paper, Priya Ammu was ready to open a restaurant.She had the perfect recipe, an extensive business plan and plenty of experience, having spent more than a decade working in commercial kitchens and catering facilities.But, she said, there were things she wasn’t prepared for. Having to juggle different orders at different times, for...
October 19, 2012
Members in the News | By Mark Kurlansky, Food & Wine Magazine October 2012On January 1, 1959, Mariano Guas, 13 years old, was at home in Havana when he learned that Cuba’s dictator, Fulgencio Batista, had fled the country. “It was a gloomy scene. I was scared,” he recalls. “I didn’t know what to expect or what it meant. But it didn’t take long to realize my life was about to...
October 18, 2012
Members in the News | By Sharon McLoon, Del Ray Patch October 16, 2012The Alexandria Circuit Court has dismissed the Old Dominion Boat Club’s dispute over Wales Alley, allowing Virtue Feed & Grain to lease and expand the area for outdoor dining.“We are certainly disappointed in the Circuit Court’s dismissal of this case,” said Miles Holtzman, president of the Old Dominion Boat Club. “...
October 17, 2012
Hot Topics | By Dave McIntyre , The Washington Post October 15, 2012“Virginia makes the kind of wines I like to drink.” By itself, that statement is unexceptional. Spoken by Steven Spurrier, the eminent British wine writer, at a reception in the grand setting of the Virginia governor’s mansion in Richmond before an assembly of Old Dominion winemakers, it was electric.Spurrier — not to...
October 15, 2012
Members in the News | By Christine Haughney , The New York Times October 8, 2012IT’S been belabored in women’s magazines and among women themselves that eating foods like bread can lead to social isolation, a dormant love life and belly fat that could sentence women to a wardrobe of muumuus. There have been knocks, too, on avocados, egg yolks and the ever-menacing blueberry muffin.Enlarge This ImageRuth...
October 9, 2012
Hot Topics | Jeff Clabaugh, Washington Business Journal Tuesday, October 9 Washington diners are eating out more often, according to the new Zagat Restaurants Survey.Based on 13,363 diner survey results, which Zagat says is a record for the Washington/Baltimore survey, we're eating out an average of 2.8 times a week, up from 2.6 percent last year but still below the 3 meals per week on average before the...
October 5, 2012
Members in the News | Posted October 5, 2012Washington's own, Chef Roberto Donna (Al Dente) dubbed Esquire Magazine "Chef of the Year." Read the full story.
September 29, 2012
Hot Topics | By Erica Champion for Capital BusinessSeptember 30, 2012While that old sad song about Washington’s challenging office market is sounding a bit like a broken record, there is good news on the retail front.The office vacancy rate in the nation’s capital ticked up 50 basis points over the past year, contrary to the 40-basis-point decline in office vacancy for the broader United States....
September 28, 2012
Members in the News | By Amy McKeever, DC EaterSeptember 28, 2012Here now is the first look inside Fuego Cocina y Tequileria, which aims to open its doors in Clarendon next week, possibly as early as Wednesday. This latest project from Passion Food Hospitality follows quickly on the heels of year-old sister restaurants District Commons and Burger, Tap and Shake. It's also the very first time the restaurant group has...
September 27, 2012
Members in the News | By Chris Richards , The Washington Post September 28, 2012 If you want some God with your grits, plan to show up around 9 a.m.That’s when the line starts forming for the first of two gospel brunches held each Sunday at the Hamilton, a nightclub that opened in December in the shell of a shuttered Borders bookstore on 14th and F streets NW. Queues used to wrap around this corner in the...
September 26, 2012
Members in the News | By Jessica Sidman , Washington City Paper September 27, 2012In the fall of 2007, Spike Mendelsohn told everyone he knew he was traveling in Vietnam for six weeks.In reality, the chef of Good Stuff Eatery and We The Pizza was in Chicago filming Season 4 of Top Chef. The story seemed plausible: He was cooking Vietnamese food at Mai House in New York at the time and often ventured to parts of...
