Disoriented and Seeing Stars WaPo reviewer Tom Sietsema has released his 2007 Washington Post Dining Guide online. You can catch it on newsstands this weekend. At the top, Cathal Armstrong’s Restaurant Eve has broken through to the four-star category, and his revamped Majestic also made the list. Newcomers Central Michel Richard (3 stars), Proof (2.5), Farrah Olivia (2.5), and Hook (2.5) also made it onto the list. A surprising omission was Brasserie Beck, which Sietsema…

This post from DCist contributor Jamie R. Liu You can’t help but want to root for Chef Jamie Stachowski and Restaurant Kolumbia. How can you not love a man who, when asked on the Today Show, “What if you don’t have a larding needle?”, responded with a jovial, machismo-filled, “Well you better get one!” You love the great team he forms with his wife and general manager, Carolyn, who has applied her artist’s eye to…

In what could be described as either the rebirth of Fear Factor or Anthony Bourdain’s dream come true, TasteDC.com — that hard-hearted harbinger of haggis — has organized the 1st Annual Unique and Unusual Food and Wine Festival. Scheduled for Wednesday, October 25 at the Women’s National Democratic Club in Dupont Circle’s Whittemore House, the festival will spotlight both rare ingredients and seldom seen animal parts that will make you moan with delight or squirm…

Thanks to all the readers who sent us their experiences from Restaurant Week. Your comments — and others culled from various local contacts — showed surprising uniformity. It seems that in D.C. there are restaurants that do Restaurant Week right, and some that don’t — with little space in between. A loud chorus of voices, both from e-mail and on DonRockwell’s forum, were pleased with the Restaurant Week offerings of Corduroy (memo to the staff…