For the first time in eight years, Bread & Chocolate is ready to open a new cafe — and perhaps begin to recapture some of the restaurant presence the small Alexandria-based chain had during its heyday in the 1980s. Read full article »
One good expansion deserves another. Less than a year after Jamie Leeds knocked down the walls and expanded her original Hank’s Oyster Bar near Dupont Circle, the chef and owner plans to do it all over again with her Old Town location. Hank’s will esse... »
Local toques dominated the Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic category in this year’s James Beard Foundation Awards, scooping up four of the five nominations, including nods for perennial finalists Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve (his sixth in a row) and Peter... »
Editor’s note: The latest in Dave McIntyre’s occasional series of interviews with local wine retailers. Vanessa Moore is the owner and manager of Unwined, a specialty wine retail shop in the Bradlee Shopping Center of Alexandria, with a sister store in... »
I cannot tell a lie: I did not barbecue yesterday. Should have, I know. Because yesterday was Presidents’ Day, which means it might as well be called Barbecuers’ Day. George Washington was himself quite the barbecue hound. “Went into Alexandria to a Ba... »
Three local breweries made the cut for SAVOR, the annual craft beer and food festival set for early June at the National Building Museum in Washington. Among the 75 breweries that will be pouring two beers each are DC Brau, Capitol City Brewing Co. in ... »
Santa Claus might be a Dutch invention, but it’s another Low Country, Belgium, that’s provided inspiration for Christmas offerings from several of the area’s newest breweries. If you’re interested in variations on a yeast, try Tidings from Port City Br... »
Pork Barrel BBQ’s announcement of the impending opening of its restaurant in Del Ray was made by scrawling the news on a sheet of paper and taping it to the front door last week. No Twitter, no Facebook, not even a press release, all of which the savvy... »
The American Wine Society, the oldest consumer-based wine education organization in the United States, recently bestowed its highest honor on Alexandria resident Gordon W. Murchie for his work promoting advances in viticulture along the East Coast. Ear... »
“I should have drunk more Champagne,” the economist John Maynard Keynes supposedly said on his deathbed. (The quote is often rendered in a longer version, but parsimony seems more authentic on death’s door.) Those are not likely to be the last words of... »
