Photo courtesy of Native Foods’ Facebook page.
Dish of the Week: New healthy eats
Where: Fruitive, The Little Beet, Native Foods Cafe
Perchance you’re feeling like a lead balloon following Thanksgiving. Perchance your calendar is filling with holiday parties. In this relative calm, before seasonal merriment hits peak gluttony, you can cleanse your guilt and/or digestive tract at several new health-minded restaurants.
City Center is home to a new juice bar called Fruitive (1094 Palmer Alley NW). Its wholly vegan menu includes smoothies, salads, sandwiches, and bowls.
In Dupont Circle, The Little Beet (1212 18th St NW) serves a gluten-free menu of bowls, salads, and soups. Build your bowl with a meat and starch or make it meatlessly vegetable-centric.
When you want a classic threesome that’s not animalistic, you can veganize your all-American burger, fries, and beer at Native Foods Cafe (1212 18th St NW & 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW). The new menu includes signature burgers such as the pleasantly piquant Native Southwestern Burger, plus a build-your-own option. Borderstan just reported that both locations are closing next week, though, so you’ve got to make it here fast.
Small Bites
Fare Ye Well
Continuing on this theme, you can attend a preview of Fare Well (406 H Street NE) tonight, the forthcoming vegan cafe from chef/owner Doron Petersan of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats fame. Currently operating as a pop-up at Prequel (918 F Street NW), Fare Well is holding a preview tasting for prospective investors in its Equity Eats campaign. Tickets are $25.
More $1 Oysters
Should you get a craving for oysters soon after stepping off the NoMa Metro, point your gastronomic compass due north and journey to the Florida Avenue side of the station. There you’ll find Union Social (100 Florida Avenue NE), a new, transportation-themed restaurant that serves $1 Rappahannock oysters during its 4 to 7 p.m. weeknight happy hour. Pair your oysters with $6 draft beers, $15 pitchers, and $7 glasses of wine.
Georgetown Cupcake Decorating Classes
Indulge your inner cupcakologist at Georgetown Cupcake’s cake decorating classes from 2 to 4 p.m. on December 6 and 13. Participants are equipped with cupcakes and the tools needed to frost and decorate them. The bakery’s sister-owners lead the class and make the rounds to teach students how to execute a perfect frosting swirl. While performing this laborious task, students can sugar up on mini cupcakes and hot beverages. Classes are held at the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown (3100 South Street NW) and cost $75. The cost of tickets includes the dozen you decorated to take home.
Raising A Glass To Prohibition
Jack Rose Dining Saloon (2007 18th Street NW) wants you to drink like it’s 1933 and toast Repeal Day this Saturday. The holiday marks the day Prohibition was taken off the books. Jack Rose is celebrating with a no-cover bash that promises a true taste of history. Drink thematic cocktails and 100-year-old whiskeys made before Prohibition; dine on a 1930s-inspired prix-fixe menu; and feast your eyes on a burlesque show. Begin with “Pappy Hour” from 5 to 7:30 p.m., centered around specially priced Pappy Van Winkle libations. Period costumes are encouraged (flappers and dapper dandies could win some liquid refreshment). The Repeal Day party goes from 5 p.m. to close.
