Posts Tagged ‘20008’
First Look: District Kitchen
After driving right by it and then almost walking past it, I finally made it into District Kitchen. It’s not really as bright in the dark as the picture makes it appear to be. Open just almost two weeks, the Woodley Park restaurant has almost mastered its customer service skills, and it’s a great addition [...]
More »We Love Food: A Look at Medium Rare
service @ Medium Rare, Cleveland Park
courtesy of Plantains & Kimchi
I’ve wanted to try Medium Rare ever since it opened earlier this year but, for some reason I rarely make it north of Dupont Circle. However, I managed to make it to the steak-frites restaurant twice before I decided to write it up.
Simple concepts can [...]
New Chef at Ripple in Cleveland Park
‘Making gnocchi at Ripple’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
In the most recent chef news in DC, Logan Cox has taken the helm at Cleveland Park’s Ripple. Previously, Cox was the executive chef at New Heights and had also worked with Frank Ruta at Palena and Tarver King at Woodlands Resort and Inn in Charleston, SC. He started working [...]
Capital Chefs – Teddy Diggs of Ripple (Part 2)
‘Gnocchi with creme fraiche sauce, spinach and beans’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
Man, am I a big fan of gnocchi. It’s easy enough to make. It combines pasta and potatoes, the two powerhouses of starchiness. What’s not to love? So since it’s unpleasantly cold this weekend, make a nice, warm bowl of this gnocchi, courtesy of Teddy Diggs, [...]
Capital Chefs: Teddy Diggs of Ripple (Part 1)
‘Teddy Diggs of Ripple’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
At some point in our lives, most of us have had a moment where we stare at the television screen and say to ourselves, “That’s what I want to do with my life.” For some it’s fantasy but for others, like Teddy Diggs, it actually becomes reality.
Diggs, the executive chef of Ripple, grew [...]
We Love Food: Vace Italian Delicatessen
‘Vace Italian Deli’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Vace in Cleveland Park isn’t just an Italian market, it’s a way of life. The best way to explain this is with this little story. A friend of mine loved the pizza from Vace so much that every time he ordered it, he never made it home without eating [...]
More »First Look: Hot N Juicy Crawfish
‘DC All-Louisiana Crawfish Boil 05′
courtesy of ‘maxedaperture’
When I first saw the sign for Hot N Juicy Crawfish in Woodley Park, I thought, “wow, they put one of those Chicken/Chinese/Wings/Subs places in, weird.” Then after a little bit of Internet chatter, it came to be known as “the place from Man v. Food” which isn’t normally [...]
We Love Food: Comet Ping Pong
‘Outdoor Ping Pong’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
Over the last couple of years, I’ve eaten in a lot of nice restaurants. And after the foie gras, the caviar, the course-upon-course of decadent food, what have I learned? I’ve learned I love pizza. I really love pizza. I love it in all its forms – artisan Neopolitan right [...]
We Love Food: Palena Cafe
‘palena’
courtesy of ‘AlissaS24′
There are plenty of restaurants here that serve smart American food, and there are plenty of places that serve burgers. But there are few that combine the two in a way that satisfies me when I’m feeling fancy and when I’m feeling like…well…a burger.
Selling Palena Cafe as a burger restaurant isn’t really fair. [...]
Haiti Survival Kit Drive This Sunday
‘Haiti Earthquake’
courtesy of ‘United Nations Development Programme’
Update: This event did receive mention on FOX 5 News (still link-hunting on that) and has a listing on Yelp and on Meetup. Still confirming officially if this is indeed occurring, as it is (obviously) difficult to contact the Embassy at this time.
In the meantime, the Embassy of Haiti [...]
DC in Cookies
This week, the Four Seasons Hotel unveiled a gingerbread replica of the Smithsonian Castle. Talk about a sugar rush. To make this three-foot-high confection, Executive Pastry Chef Charles Froke used 100 pounds of gingerbread dough, 50 pounds of icing, 30 pounds of icing for snow, 20 pounds of sugar, and five pounds of chocolate. It [...]
More »Where We Live: Cleveland Park
‘ladybridgev1c’
courtesy of ‘melody.a.thomas’
Cleveland Park is the focus of this week’s Where We Live. This neighborhood has so much to offer, including great Metro access, proximity to major attractions, charming residential character, and some very cool neighborhood hangouts. It’s one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the city, with its views of Rock Creek Park and [...]
We Love Drinks: Gin at New Heights
The first spirit I ever tasted was gin. It was that obligatory illicit shot from your parents’ liquor cabinet, the “hmm, what’s this all about?” experimentation. And – UGH – that first sip was enough to put me off “Mother’s Ruin” for life. For years afterwards the smell would provoke an instant reaction of, well, [...]
More »Where We Live: Glover Park
‘Glover Park hawk’
courtesy of ‘Julie Lyn’
Welcome to another installment of Where We Live. This week we’ll look at Glover Park, a neighborhood that often gets overlooked because of its two loud neighbors: Dupont Circle and Georgetown. But there’s a lot of charm in Glover Park, and it offers residents a perfect balance: living [...]
Where We Live: Adams Morgan
‘Adams Morgan’
courtesy of ‘citron_smurf’
Welcome to another edition of Where We Live. This week we’ll be covering the ins and outs of one of the District’s coolest neighborhoods, Adams Morgan. Adams Morgan is unique in DC in that it actually feels like a neighborhood during the weekdays and weekend days, and completely changes character on weekend [...]
Five Members of the House Arrested
‘PHOTO Tradewinds 2009 090306-M-7404B-011CB’
courtesy of ‘Exercise Tradewinds 2009′
At the Darfur protest outside of the Sudanese embassy, Rep Ellison (D-MN) and Rep Donna Edwards (D-MD) were both arrested after crossing a police line. No word on charges at this point aside from violating a police order.
Update: It’s now being reported that five members of the [...]
Tourism: National Zoo
Pandamania! by flickr user needlessspaces
The National Zoo was the second major DC tourism spot that I hit after I moved here. The first was the Washington Monument. Our Zoo is great – it’s my second favorite zoo I’ve ever been to (second only to the zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. No I’m not joking, that zoo [...]
