The Latest Dish: Puttery, Il Piato, Joy
• July 13, 2022

Joon Yang (Epic Smokehouse, American Prime) and Chef Jon Mathieson have opened UnCommon Luncheonette, a diner at 1028 N Garfield St. in Clarendon where Riverside Hot Pot and Bowl’d used […]

Wegmans … Wow! Everything you ever wanted in a grocery store — and more!
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Cue the choirs of angels. The much-heralded, long-awaited Wegmans has opened in NW D.C. More precisely, in City Ridge, the new residential, retail and commercial complex on Wisconsin Avenue where […]

Wild Thistle Kitchen: No-Churn Key Lime Pie Ice Cream
• July 7, 2022

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Creating ice cream recipes and flavors is my favorite thing. Nothing gets my creativity flowing like ice cream. I literally lie […]

‘Sex on the Beach’ Cocktail
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The summer of 2022 has been a flashback to the heydays of the 1980s. Tom Cruise has  topped the box office as Maverick, the titular character in the “Top Gun” […]

July Fourth Dessert: Juicy Cherry Pie
• June 30, 2022

From Karen Berner at “Taste of Home” For this Fourth of July weekend, what could be more American than a cherry pie decorated with a celebratory fireworks motif to serve […]

Il Piatto: Hakan Ilhan Gives Italian Classics a Value-Oriented Spin at BLM Plaza
• June 23, 2022

Il Piatto, a mecca for Italian classics in a classy, midtown setting, is restaurateur Hakan Ilhan’s latest offering to restaurant-goers looking for value. (His Georgetown spot is Brasserie Liberté.) The spacious dining […]

Business Ins & Outs — End of an Era: Sara’s Market Closes Tuesday
• June 21, 2022

A Georgetown tradition of more than a century is ending in less than a week. Sara’s Market at 3008 Q St. NW will shut its doors for good at the […]

Latest Dish: José Andrés Bringing Bazaar to Old Post Office
• June 15, 2022

José Andrés announced he is bringing his Bazaar restaurant to the Old Post Office, a dream nearly 30 years in the making. He was supposed to have a restaurant in […]

Wild Thistle Kitchen: Pull Apart Lobster Sliders with Garlic Chive Butter
• June 9, 2022

Buttery lobster is always in season and these Pull Apart Lobster Sliders are the cutest! And definitely one of the most delicious things I’ve made in a while — a […]

D.C. Hails Tony & Joe’s on 35th Anniversary
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Mayor Muriel Bowser “with the nearly 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C.,” as she wrote in her June 5 proclamation, congratulated Tony & Joe’s Seafood Place on “35 phenomenal years — […]