DC Beer Week is Here! From August 20-28 DC is celebrating all things craft beer (no, Miller Lite does not count) and we’re lucky enough to have several events here on the Hill! DC Beer Week is the brainchild of Teddy Folkman of Granville Moore’s and Capitol Lounge, and is, “a week-long celebration of beer […]
From August 16-22, 2010, Celebrate H Street Eats, the H Street Corridor’s answer to Restaurant Week. For $20.10 the restaurants of H Street are offering fixed price menus and other discounts. Participating Restaurants & Menus include: Argonaut I. Choice of any two sandwiches II. Choice of any two drafts Biergarten Haus I. Small house salad […]
The weather hasn’t settled into any sort of understandable pattern lately, but summer rolls along steadily. DC has experienced torrential downpours, almost-tornadoes, an earthquake, power outages, and blistering heat so far. What’s next? Locusts? Maybe a freak blizzard. That almost sounds nice… Fortunately there’s still plenty to do on the Hill this weekend to take […]
Rosé wines have a bad rap. The reason? Most consumers think of sickeningly sweet white Zinfandel and “blush” wines. While such wines do offer an opportunity to notice “hints of Kool-Aid with a strong dose strawberry jolly rancher,” they’re pretty bad. True Rosés, though, can be wonderful. They’re generally bone dry or slightly off-dry, and they’re […]
Tonight is the 27th Annual National Night Out. Sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch, NNO is a community-level initiative across the US to bring together “citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials”. According to the NNO website, their objectives are to: Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; Generate […]