Hog Heaven Meat Week is a thing and what a glorious thing it is. For eight days all around the country, America’s pork lovers feed en mass in participating cities at local BBQ joints, licking their chops and taking piggish advantage of specials. Right now we are smack in Read More

New Restaurant Features N. Italian Cuisine Alba Osteria, the new Italian restaurant from owner Hakan Ilhan and executive chef Roberto Donna of Al Dente opened Dec. 30 in the Mount Vernon Triangle area of Northwest D.C. Donna is joined in the kitchen by chef de cuisine Amy Read More

Getting out of the 3 O’clock Slump Stuck in a rut with snacks to get your through the 3 o’clock work slump? Here are a few additions to your lunch box — the key is keeping them high in protein, low in sugar (unless it’s from fruit), and you’ll be full until Read More

Vice President Helps Dish Out Free Meal This Monday, I decided to volunteer a few hours at D.C. homeless service organization, So Others Might Eat (SOME). It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, “A Day on Not a Day Off.” I was just trying to do my civic duty, you know, no Read More

Upscale Pub’s Food Is Tasty, But Pricey The new City Tap House across from the new City Center — the new development on the site of the old convention center — will likely be the go-to place for the area’s newest residents who can afford to pay $2,670 a Read More

Cookbook Classics that You Should Have I have a tendency to acquire cookbooks. Anyone else? I saw my cookbook shelf grow a few inches over the holiday season, and there are few things that make me happier. Here are my top five that I just can’t get enough of: On Food and Read More