Posts Tagged ‘zaytinya’
Winter Restaurant Week 2012
Cena courtesy of Daquella manera
So you are one week into your New Years resolutions of getting fit, eating healthy and exercising more… Good for you! Now get over it, because starting January 9th restaurants across the District will be offering killer deals for Winter Restaurant Week. From January 9-15, select restaurants across the city will [...]
First Look: Graffiato
Earlier this year it was Toki Underground and Shake Shack that were pretty much the buzz everywhere before they opened their doors. When that died down, Graffiato became the restaurant everyone was talking about. The 130-seat dining spot in Chinatown comes to us courtesy Top Chef Mike Isabella, and it has been consistently crowded since it [...]
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courtesy of ‘Jing a Ling’
Serendipity
Hopefully you haven’t missed it in the Shake Shack, Pinkberry, Luke’s Lobster craze…but Serendipity 3 is now open in Georgetown. There’s no way you haven’t heard of the NY based shop and its signature oversized Frrrozen Hot Chocolate and Foot-Long Hot Dogs, BUT you can also have the President’s Lobster Pasta [...]
Taste of the Hill is Coming
‘Oyamel’
courtesy of ‘angela n.’
Get your tickets while you can — Brent Elementary’s Taste of the Hill: Beyond the Classroom 2011 Gala is almost here. For $75 you’ll be able to partake in a night of music, dancing, food and beverages, and support Brent Elementary students.
Guests will enjoy food from restaurants in the Capitol Hill area and a [...]
Food Tweet of the Week: Chef Geoff Tracy
’shrimp n grits’
courtesy of ‘@heylovedc’
New (and even old-time) Tweeters can learn a thing or two from Chef Geoff Tracy. With @chegeoffs, Tracy might not hold the record for the most tweets per day, but all the messages he sends out are either informative (specials of the day), enticing (pictures from the kitchen), or funny (as [...]
We Love Drinks: Herbs, Flowers & Spice
Summer always puts me in mind to garden. I have a little herb garden with oregano, rosemary and lavender that always needs pruning, some roses that need constant watch from black spot, peonies dusty with blight – wait a minute. Gardening in DC is hard work, our weather vacillating between wet and humid to dry [...]
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‘this is generally what my life looks like at 6:30 p.m. any given day’
courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’
People ask me all the time if they can have my job. NO! Mine. Well, you can have my day job, but you’d have to fight me to the death for my foodie blogging job. And it would be your [...]
DC Omnivore 100: #4, Steak Tartare
If the idea of marauding hordes of Tartars riding with raw meat under their saddles to tenderize it just in time for a nice snack after some pillaging sounds appetizing to you, then you’ve probably tried steak tartare. Ok, we don’t really know if that’s the origin of the dish, but that’s the historical rumor. [...]
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Zaytinya’s Roast Lamb To-Go for Greek Easter
As everyone is gearing up for big Easter meals, the foodie world has been a bit slow with forthcoming news. But there’s still some good stuff to report on, including one piece of news that makes me green with envy, so click on through for all the news [...]
Preview: Greek Easter Festival @ Zaytinya
Easter Grape Cocktail at Zaytinya by flickr user Needlessspaces
Yesterday, before watching my Tar Heels snag our fifth Championship title (squee!), I headed over to Zaytinya for a media preview of the Easter Menu.
While I’m still basking in the glow of my University of National Champions win, the Easter food and drink at Zaytinya certainly [...]
