Archive for February, 2011
Friday Happy Hour: Jack Rose Cocktail
It’s time for Friday Happy Hour, highlighting a drink we’ve recently enjoyed, every Friday at 4pm! Please share your favorites as well.
My friend Kirk (pictured above) has been reading Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises specifically, which got him thinking about the Jack Rose cocktail. In the 1926 novel, the narrator sips one in a Parisian [...]
Food Tweet of the Week: Baked & Wired
‘Baked & Wired, Georgetown’
courtesy of ‘allisonkirchner’
Nice profile from Georgetown’s Baked & Wired:
Born on 4:20, we celebrate the art of getting baked daily. From handcrafted baked goods to our amazing coffee bar…you’re never too old or young to get baked!
Baked & Wired has been serving popular handcrafted coffee drinks in Georgetown since 2001, and it’s been [...]
Capital Chefs: Adam Sobel of Bourbon Steak (Part 2)
‘Venison, Bourbon Steak’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
It’s 70 degrees out today. But it’s still February, and that tricky March will probably make its entrance with a roar that will force all of us to bundle up once again. And chances are when it gets cold again, you’ll want to snuggle up with a nice big bowl of hot [...]
Hot Ticket: Los Lobos / Taj Mahal @ 9:30 Club, 2/21/11
If you are looking for a double billing with two legendary acts, it is hard to pass up on this one. Taj Mahal is one of the most inventive players in the blues field. No surprise that one of his most famous albums (issued over 25 years late) came out of the short lived band [...]
More »Capital Chefs: Adam Sobel of Bourbon Steak (Part 1)
‘Adam Sobel of Bourbon Steak’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
Chef Adam Sobel describes his journey to the restaurant industry as one that came about naturally. He was drawn to cooking “like a moth to a light,” he says. “I was 4 or 5 years old and I would be messing around in the kitchen, making nasty concoctions as [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Pleasant Pops Food Truck’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Has the recent increase in temperature got you itching to get outside and enjoy the sunshine? Well stop gazing out the window and make your way to street level to find something delicious for lunch.
Click on through for our ThestrEATS-powered lunch map to find your favorite food [...]
Hot Ticket: Broken Records @ Black Cat, 2/20/11
Who is Arcade Fire? Beats me. What is Scotland’s answer to Arcade Fire? According to NME, that would be Broken Records, a six-piece indie folk group that’s playing Sunday night at the Black Cat Backstage.
…Okay, so NME may be guilty of exaggeration. It takes more than just pianos, horns, and strings to be Arcade Fire. [...]
Caps Fall to Sharks 3-2
‘Missed hit’
courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’
After a wild 7-6 victory in Anaheim and the reappearance of Alexander Semin to the goal category on Wednesday, it looked as if the spark had returned to the Washington Capitals. The Caps moved on in their West Coast tour with a stop last night in San Jose to face the struggling [...]
Washington Wizards Mid-Season Report Card
‘All Alone’
courtesy of ‘MudflapDC’
Last night the Wizards closed out the first half of the 2010-2011 NBA season in a way that characterizes their season so far.
A loss.
It was a loss on the road, bringing the Wizards to a road record of 1-26. Thank goodness for the post-LeBron Cavaliers for getting that monkey off our backs. [...]
This Week in Food
‘Pork Loin with Kumquat Marmalade @ Ardeo’
courtesy of ‘jimcollins’
Talk about an empire. DCMud.com reports that restaurateur Ashok Bajaj, the man behind Bombay Club, 701, Rasika, and Ardeo + Bardeo could soon sign a lease for the retail space at 22 West in West End. Bajaj somewhat hinted at a new project in a chat last month with my fave [...]
We Love Arts: Oedipus el Rey
Jocasta and Oedipus (Romi Diaz and Andres Munar)
by Stan Barouh for Woolly Mammoth, used with permission
Oedipus. We all know the myth. Ill-fated to kill his father and marry his mother. The solver of the riddle of the Sphinx. Pride before fall. Blinded at the end.
Now take that myth, rattle it in Zeus’s dice cup, and [...]
Hot Ticket: Kid Congo Powers and The Pink Monkey Birds @ Comet Ping-Pong, 2/18/11
The Gun Club
The Cramps
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
What do these legendary bands of the underground have in common? At one time or another Kid Congo Powers has been their guitar player! Never staying still for long, Kid Congo Powers has loaned his trademark guitar skills to all three of the bands through some of [...]
Hot Ticket: Avett Brothers @ DAR, 2/18/11
Straight from last Sunday’s Grammy awards broadcast, where they performed with Mumford & Sons and Bob Dylan, the Avett Brothers are bringing their show to DAR Constitution Hall on Friday night.
Linguistically speaking, folk rock is a genre that shouldn’t exist. Rock is too powerful, and folk is too sweet, to logically co-exist, right? And yet [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Fry Captain Food Truck’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Feel like it is so close to the weekend that you can smell it? No! That’s just the friendly, neighborhood food truck parked outside your building!
Click on through for our ThestrEATS-powered lunch map to find your favorite food truck and find that last little bit of [...]
More Chef Awards News: James Beard 2011 Semifinalists
‘Julia’s stove’
courtesy of ‘volcanojw’
By now, you’re all abuzz about the James Beard Foundation’s 2011 Restaurants and Chefs Awards Semifinalists list. The final list of nominees will be announced on March 21, 2011 and the winners will be selected in May. Read on for the breakdown of which DC restaurants and chefs made the cut.
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More »Gin and Tonic Throwdown?
“Here is another of my gin y tonic”via @chefjoseandres
Who doesn’t love a little smack talk?
After Adam Bernbach’s recipe got a little love from the Post (and, for what it’s worth, from Katie Nelson in these pages) Chef José Andrés Took matters into his own hands, or at least his own twitter account, posting “thats a [...]
Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chefs of 2011
‘The Proper Way to Use a Knife’
courtesy of ‘Sprezzatura Images’
Washingtonians should feel a swell of pride: four DC chefs are represented in Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chefs list.
Kyle Bailey of Birch & Barley, Daniel Giusti of 1789, David Guas of Bayou Bakery and Nicholas Stefanelli of Bibiana are all nominated in the Mid-Atlantic [...]
The Winning Ticket (Extra): Fences
photo by Lindsey Byrnes
Since so many people tried to win tickets yesterday and since we could only pick one winner, we decided that we should give all of those who didn’t win yesterday, a chance to win tickets to a different free show happening this holiday weekend!
Today, we are giving away a pair of tickets [...]
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