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Coming Up With a Beer Name is Harder Than Ever in An Industry Flooded With...
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Hellbender Brewing Company wanted to call its flagship red ale Fire Belly Red after a type of newt. After all, most of its beer names—and the brewery...
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Chefs Are Working With Farmers to Custom-Grow Obscure Ingredients
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Chef Alex McCoy wants to channel the flavors of Southeast Asia at his forthcoming Petworth restaurant, but some of the herbs and produce used in the...
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D.C.’s Newest Distillery, Jos. A. Magnus & Co., Revives a Century-Old Bourbon
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Jimmy Turner found the bottle in crumpled brown packaging on the top shelf of a closet, behind some other items. It was 2007, his mother had just passed...
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Sona Creamery Is Finally Making Cheese
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry The creamery at Sona Creamery near Eastern Market has remained unused since the adjoining restaurant and wine bar opened in January 2014. But last...
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How Union Kitchen’s Expansion Will Affect D.C.’s Food Scene
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry At Union Kitchen Grocery, Gatorade shares fridge space with Capital Kombucha, and Hershey’s bars are within arm’s length of Undone Chocolate bars....
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Logan Circle’s Kitschy Liquor Store Façade Could Become a Historic Landmark
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Walking through Logan Circle, it’s hard to miss Barrel House Liquor, a wine and spirits shop near the corner of 14th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW....
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How Other Businesses on Barracks Row Feed Off Rose’s Luxury’s Popularity
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry It took an hour and 15 minutes on a recent Saturday for everyone in the epic line outside Rose’s Luxury to make it to the host stand. Needless to say,...
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Tipping Point: Some D.C. Restaurants Are Taking a Closer Look at Eliminating...
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Bill Perry’s new brewpub doesn’t accept tips. The Public Option isn’t your average brewpub. Its owner, Bill Perry, was previously a photo librarian for...
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Forage Ahead: The Dabney Wants to Build An Identity For Mid-Atlantic Cuisine
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Chef Jeremiah Langhorne pulls a thick red book with gold-embossed lettering out of a wooden drawer. The spine is broken, but he’s patched it up with...
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The Latest Local Beer Brand Eyes China… and Outer Space
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry The first few emails from 888 Lucky Beer seemed like spam. But when another one arrived in late September, I finally clicked the link to its website,...
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Ivy City Smokehouse Wants to Change the Way D.C. Eats Seafood
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry In the near future, buying fish in D.C. will look something like this: You go online and peruse a handful of specials or more than 1,000 types of...
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How Old Ebbitt Grill Brought in More Than $28 Million Last Year
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry In one of two kitchens at Old Ebbitt Grill, a cook rolls individual squares of pasta dough into tubes called garganelli. Each noodle is gently placed...
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The Hungries: The Best and Worst of D.C. Restaurants in 2015
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry 2015 was a year of lines. Lines for kolaches. Lines for Filipino food. Lines for crack pie. And lines, still, for Rose’s Luxury. Make all the lemming...
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The 10 Most Anticipated Restaurant and Bar Openings of 2016
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry New restaurant and bar openings show no sign of slowing down in 2016. Chefs behind some of the area’s top restaurants are expanding with new concepts,...
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Few Holdouts Remain As D.C. Bans ‘Styrofoam’ Food and Drink Containers
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry In matching green jackets, the pair of environmental protection specialists prepare to hit every bar and restaurant in Adams Morgan. Bar crawls on New...
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Not All Restaurants Are Fans of Food Delivery Services
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry It took two months for Kangaroo Boxing Club to remove itself from Postmates’ food delivery service. The problem? Owner Peyton Sherwood says the menus...
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Brewhaha: How a Beer Donation to a Charity Event Led to a Controversial Mess
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry On Aug. 14, during DC Beer Week, Molly Malone’s on Barracks Row was packed for an ALS awareness fundraiser. Local ’90s cover band Mr. Blonde played, and...
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Why You Shouldn’t Hate the $100 Cocktail
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry The World’s Greatest Cocktail certainly isn’t the cheapest. At recently opened cocktail den Left Door, 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon is combined...
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Dinner Engagement: Behind the Scenes of D.C. Restaurant Marriage Proposals
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Some people really do want the ring in the food. Equinox co-owner Ellen Kassoff Gray has witnessed at least a few hundred proposals in her restaurant...
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Chair Necessities: A Lot of Thought Went Into Your Restaurant Seat
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry There are no barstools at Derek Brown’s newest bar. In the original Columbia Room—actually a converted closet—10 elevated seats were crammed together in...
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Are Restaurant Liquor License Moratoriums Coming to an End in D.C.?
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Georgetown resident Tom Birch couldn’t get a decent night’s sleep on weekends in the late 1980s. From his home near M Street NW, he would often be woken...
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After a Disastrous Halloween, D.C. Bar Crawls Face New Regulations
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Trash poured out of cans and into the streets. Piles of vomit, plastic cups, napkins, pizza boxes, and takeout containers speckled the sidewalks. A...
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D.C.’s Thai Chefs Can Finally Showcase Pungent, Spicy Flavors on Their Menus
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry Khao soi gai at Baan Thai When chef Aulie Bunyarataphan and her husband opened their first restaurant, T.H.A.I. in Shirlington, in 1995, she introduced...
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If D.C. Raises the Tipped Minimum Wage, Will Restaurants Ditch Tipping?
Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry One of the biggest restaurant industry headlines of the past year was Danny Meyer and his grand no-tipping experiment. The famed New York restaurateur...
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