The Gift That Keeps On Giving Most of us in the metro D.C. area know how the cherry blossoms (also called “sakura”) we view and celebrate each year came to be in our area*. However, I bet most of you didn’t know that those same trees can be great for culinary Read More

Two New Restaurants Slated for Shirlington Bistro Bistro and Extra Virgin restaurants recently closed in the Village of Shirlington, but two replacements are already preparing to move in to the coveted spaces in the restaurant row. Copperwood Tavern, a new restaurant from the Read More

Hell’s Kitchen Chef Opens New Restaurant Chef Rahman “Rock” Harper, the Season 3 winner of Hell’s Kitchen, and restauranteur Aaron Gordon will open their Fat Shorty’s Sausage Grill in Clarendon, Va., at 4 p.m. today. Harper announced the opening on Instagram and Twitter. The Read More

Food Options for the Cherry Blossoms D.C.’s spring time attraction has been slow to unfurl this season. With the whole metropolitan area on “Bloom Watch”, D.C. may find itself wondering if the bashful cherry blossoms, or spring  itself, will show up this year. Read More

Cuba Libre Offers 3 New Varieties to Celebrate April is National Empanada Month and Cuba Libre restaurant is celebrating with three new selections of the stuffed pastry along with the five traditional varieties on its menu. Empanadas trace their origins to Galicia and Portugal Read More

Mayfair & Pine Closes After Less Than a Year “Mayfair & Pine has closed. Thank you to all who supported us,” says the website of the 8-month-old restaurant in Glover Park. The gastropub at 2218 Wisconsin Ave. NW was owned by Emily Spissler, a Season 2 Top Chef contestant, Read More