Marce’s won for “Formal Fine Dining Restaurant” of the Year and Maketto took home “New Restaurant of the Year.”
Don’t feel like cooking? Here are some of the best bets for celebrating Thanksgiving in one of D.C.’s bars and restaurants that will be open tomorrow.
Dish of the Week: Soon doo boo chigae (Korean tofu stew) Where: Lighthouse Tofu/Vit Goel, Mandu, Adam Express When most people think of Korean food, they’re used to mostly barbecue and rice dishes like galbi (short ribs), bulgogi (rib eye), and bi bim bap (rice mixed with vegetables and meat). But there’s a whole world of deliciousness in their stews and soups, like yook gae jang (spicy beef and scallion soup), kimchee chigae (kimchee stew),…
Dish of the Week: Cupcakes Where: Hello Cupcake Memories of childhood birthday parties bring bad food flashbacks. The bowling alley pizza, the big cans of Hi-C punch (make mine Ecto Cooler). But most notable was the cupcakes. Dry nasty little bundles of Betty Crocker’s finest box slathered with dried crunchy frosting with multicolored sugar dots. While that certainly has a place in our memories, leave it to those slightly more intrepid to come up…
For the last few weeks you couldn’t read any D.C.-area food publication without seeing something about Robert Wiedmaier’s Brasserie Beck. And all before it even opened. From Wiedmaier guest hosting Todd Kliman’s chog, two pre-opening mentions in DCist’s Weekly Feed, and frequent but casual mentions by The Washington Post and the blogosphere. And here Beck’s is being written about yet again. Whoever the restaurant’s publicist is, she’s sure earning her keep. The best way to…
To Beck With It The buzz is all over the place about Brasserie Beck, Robert Wiedmaier of Marcel’s new Belgian gastropub on 11th and K, NW. Though not open quite yet (scheduled for an opening in the next couple of weeks), the Brasserie scored two articles in this week’s Post, and a post full of restaurant eye candy over at the Washingtonian. The Post used Beck as the latest example in the growing trend of…
By DCist contributor Analiese Bendorf The Big Apple’s Harvest Export Attention, all ye who still doubt whether one may dine seriously in DC (and we hope there aren’t many of you left), you may soon be tempted to cancel that weekend jaunt to Manhattan. Washingtonian’s Todd Kliman reports in this week’s online chat that high-profile chef Eric Ripert, of N.Y.C.’s famed Le Bernardin, plans to bring his four-star culinary talent to D.C., where he will…
Thanks to a DCist reader, we bring you more info on another worthy fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, this one taking place on September 12. Please keep directing information our way, and we’ll keep posting it. ———————- A group of high-profile chefs and restaurateurs here in Washington is donating its time, food and energy to raise money for New Orleans, in sympathy with all their fellow food and restaurant workers who have lost…
