Welcome to this week’s Feed, coming to you from Albuquerque, N.M.! This Feed will be a little more free flowing than usual. Why? I’m sitting on the patio, drinking a Fat Tire, enjoying the dry climate, and looking out on Sandia Peak. I just wanted to rub it in.

2007 RAMMYs To Feature Snakes
That’s what “Black Tie and Boas”—the theme of this year’s RAMMY awards dinner—means, right? Tuxedos and Anacondas? Seems like a bad idea, especially following last year’s theme: “Hawks and Chihuahuas.”

At any rate, the 25th annual Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington awards ceremony will take place next Sunday, June 17, at the Marriott Wardman Park, and will decide this year’s best dining spots around town. We let you in on the nominees back in March, and implored you to vote on the people’s choice awards last month. Did you do it? If not it’s too late now, you’ll just have to settle for other people’s votes.

If you’ve $250 laying around to cover the entrance fee, drinking starts at 6 p.m. and the awards start getting doled out at 8 p.m.; night owls can stay late, as dancing and dessert starts at 10 p.m.—work night shmork night. If you can’t make it, stay tuned to DCist, we’re covering the event, and will report the winners and stories of anyone drunkenly making out on the dance floor.

Should Chefs Have Opinions on Other Restaurants?
Such was the question in Todd Kliman’s chat this week. Sparked by a posting from Dino’s chef/owner Dean Gold on Don Rockwell.com that criticized the food (but lavished praise on the bivalves) at Old Ebbitt Grille, one reader chimed in that he thought it was irresponsible for a chef to post such a “spiteful” review. Kliman disagreed, saying that he didn’t find it such a big deal.

Photo from Kyle Walton.