Peanut butter cake with celery ice cream at The Dabney, one of the restaurants earning accolades for the D.C. food scene. (Photo by LaTur).

Restaurant-rating behemoth Zagat has come out with its rankings for the hottest food cities of the year, and D.C. has come out on top of the 26-strong list.

“To D.C. chefs, we’d like to say this: You rock. Keep killing it. We’re proud of you,” Zagat writes.

It’s a far cry from yesterday’s top food news, where the owner of a forthcoming sushi restaurant at the Trump International Hotel said of the local food scene that “With D.C., I had reached a point where I saw so much bad that I was actually looking for the good. I couldn’t find it.”

Guess you should have looked a little harder, Mr. Borgognone, because this is not the first we’re hearing of D.C.’s foodie ascendance.

The Zagat list follows Bon Appetit naming the District the “restaurant city of the year” over the summer and the roll out of the Michelin Guide, which awarded 12 restaurants stars.

Zagat namechecks Rose’s Luxury and Pineapple & Pearls chef Aaron Silverman winning a James Beard Award, as well as the onslaught of accolades for Bad Saint (which the New York Times just called “relentlessly delicious”), and Bon Appetit’s love for Tail Up Goat and The Dabney (which Food & Wine also called one of its top restaurants of the year). Even RPM Italian got a shout out.

Los Angeles took second place, followed by Denver, Boston, and Seattle.