Founding Farmers and Farmers and Fishers Chief Mixologist Jon Arroyo, right, and Joe Cleveland mixed up their take on a classic daiquiri before accepting the RAMMY nomination for Best Beverage and Mixology program. Photo by Rebecca Cooper. This week’s restaurant awards revelry continued Tuesday in D.C. as the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington named finalists for its annual chef and restaurant honors, the RAMMYs. While some nominations hardly came as a surprise (Michel Richard…

The District’s dining and drinking denizens have reason to toast each other today, after several of them were named as finalists for 2010 James Beard Foundation awards. Not only did a D.C.-area chef or restaurant make it into some of the heavy-hitter categories — José Andrés for Outstanding Chef of the Year (again!) and Johnny Monis of Komi for Rising Star Chef of the Year (also again!) — some chefs were honored for the…