With the dawn of apple season, we search for the best places to pick up an apple pie. Want to know which local startup is one of our favorites? more ›

The local talent in our hometown Top Chef season may have flamed out all too soon. But local fans of the Bravo network's popular franchise won't have to wait too long to cheer on another Washington favorite: today, Bravo announced the names of the cheftestants for its premier season of Top Chef: Just Desserts and among the 12 is Heather Chittum of Georgetown's Hook and Tackle Box. more ›

When I ordered this cake for our little 5th anniversary staff party last night (and we really do wish we could have invited all our readers! But we just didn't have the funds for something of that scale, I'm afraid), I went in person to a popular local bakery and wrote down "DCist" on the order form. The idea, I explained verbally to the woman taking my order, was to put the letters "DCist" across the whole cake, as big as possible. But at some point between when I paid for the cake and when the order got handed to the decorator, someone else wrote down these "instructions" on the order slip, indicating that "DCist" was to be written "on a whole cake." Sloppy handwriting made this spectacularly funny mistake even better by turning the message into "DCist on a Whale Cake." We could never have made this up. more ›

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