Nothing says Thanksgiving like pie. And the with success of Dangerously Delicious Pies and the speed with which pies fly off bakery shelves, it’s pretty safe to say Capitol Hill is a pie-lovin’ neighborhood. Buy your pies now from Slice of Life and you won’t feel quite so guilty about the caloric consumption come November […]
“Belgium has the best beer in the world,” declared Bart Vandaele, the owner and head chef at Belga Café, as we sat down at his restaurant’s bar. “This is a fact.” Such statements help explain why Vandaele recently was awarded membership in the Knighthood of the Brewers’ Mash Staff, the modern-day incarnation of Belgium’s centuries-old […]
Gourmet food trucks are all the rage these days. The New York Times has covered the trend, and the Food Network recently launched a new TV show, The Great Food Truck Race. DC is holding its own in the Food Truck wars, with favorites like SweetFlow Mobile, eat Wonky, Curbside Cupcake, and the somewhat famous […]
You, long-time resident of Capitol Hill, may or may not have ever eaten at Las Placitas. If you have, you more than likely agree with me that it’s an awesome little restaurant. (Unless you are joyless and heartless, in which case I cannot help you. I kid, I kid.) If you don’t, you may wonder […]
Washington, DC is justly criticized for lacking the lunch places and corner delis of other major American cities. Blame it on the growth of the Federal Government (among about a zillion other reasons). As the gov’met grew, they tore down rows and rows of hash slinging dives, restaurants, chop suey palaces, and so on; in […]