On Saturday I had the opportunity to meet one of my favorite chefs and television personalities. Sara Moulton was in town at Hill’s Kitchen promoting her new cookbook, Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners. Moulton was the executive chef in Gourmet Magazine’s executive dining room for 20 years, until the magazine folded last year. She’s now […]
We’re still waiting for these two new places (Chesapeake Room on Barracks Row and Biergarten Haus on H St. NE) to open up. Biergarten Haus’s opening is delayed again, and their plan to open this weekend has been delayed once more. The tweet that DCRA sent out earlier letting us know that a power outage […]
Peter Bug day is an annual tradition on Capitol Hill, taking place at the Peter Bug Shoe Repair Academy at 13th and E Streets SE and the adjacent Watkins and Buchanan Parks. Celebrating “Unity in the Community,” this year’s party will feature a parade starting at 10 am beginning at 19th and E Streets SE […]
Welcome back to another Ask Nichole! This week is all about setting, upgrading and/or improving boundaries. (For background on what this feature is all about, check out last month’s installment.) What are the politics of fencing? In other words, I want to put up a fence and I’m curious about how this responsibility, and ensuing […]
It’s been a while since there was this much anticipation for a restaurant opening on the Hill. I volunteered at Taste of 8th on Saturday and was posted outside of the yet-to-open Ted’s Bulletin directing Tasters to Matchbox to sample one of Ted’s shakes. I never want to utter the words, “You can get your […]