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Alexandria Restaurant Week Returns

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

With both locally owned and operated neighborhood restaurants as well as nationally recognized chef‐owned eateries, Alexandria is a flavorful melting pot in the truest sense. Alexandria restaurants have taken their place alongside D.C. restaurants as some of the best in the nation with

FOOD NOTES/Celebrating L’Auberge Chez Francois

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

L’Auberge Chez Francois, an Alsatian brasserie quietly nestled in Great Falls, took another spot in the OpenTable Choice Awards for the second year in a row - a winner in the top 100 best restaurants in the United States. The French family restaurant, dedicated to the cozy inn feel, recreates an Alsatian

Pork Barrel BBQ Finally Fires up the Smoker

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

It's finally open. The Barbeque Boys Heath Hall and Brett Thompson, founders of what may just be the nation’s fastest-growing barbecue sauce company, opened their much-anticipated Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant Monday at 2312 Mount Vernon Ave. in Del Ray, firing up the smoker for friends and family in advance of their official opening for dinner yesterday.

FOOD NOTES/Thanksgiving with the Franco-American Classics

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

It may be a truly American holiday, but at Bastille, the intimate bistro located in Old Town, Thanksgiving has a touch of Paris. This year the holiday falls on Thursday, November 24th, and Bastille is celebrating with a three course, all inclusive $78 prix fixe ($110 with wine) meal replete with Franco-American classics.

FOOD NOTES/Paying Homage to Thanksgiving

Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Old Town's restaurants are slicing up the turkeys and ladling out the gravy this Thanksgiving season, for a truly Norman Rockwell holiday. Here are a few of our picks: At The Majestic, Chef Shannon Overmiller pays homage to Thanksgiving with November’s Nana’s Sunday Dinner. Offered the Sunday before Thanksgiving

BUZZWORTHY/The Meridian House Rocks it

Allison Brooks — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Last week, members of the Local Kicks team attended the 43rd annual Meridian Ball. The Meridian Ball is known as one of the crown jewels of the DC social calendar and legendary for attracting many of Washington's most established set - politicians, socialites, and ambassadors as well as the younger set of rising stars.

FOOD NOTES/ Spooky Eats for ‘All Hallow’s Eve’

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

This Halloween, a couple of Old Town restaurants are getting their All Hallows Eve groove on, with spooky cookies, bloody Bundt cakes and pumpkin creme brulees. At Local Kicks, we decided to pick a few of the stand-outs: The Majestic is dropping the "casual" and going all "swank".... gangsters and flappers style.

Mount Vernon Brews Up a Special Dinner Experience

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Historic Mount Vernon and Philadelphia's own, Yards Brewing Company, makers of the Ales of the Revolution, have partnered to bring history and food together for a Colonial Beer Dinner on October 27, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The evening will begin with a beer reception, featuring Yards’ Brawler, a classic British Mild Ale, paired with tasty

Taste for Giving Satisfies All Tastes

Gale Curcio — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

This year’s Taste for Giving at Old Town's Torpedo Factory had something for everyone. Guests who wanted to satisfy their urge for something spicy could check out La Tasca or Pork Barrel BBQ, while guests who wanted something hearty could grab a steak sandwich from Old Hickory Steakhouse or a meatball

FOOD NOTES/Clyde’s Restaurant Introduces Locally Sourced, Grass-Fed Burgers

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Clyde’s Restaurant Group has 13 distinctive restaurants from Alexandria's Mark Center to Chevy Chase which serve up approximately 5,000 pounds of ground beef a week, so it took awhile to find enough area farms to handle the entire company’s demands via local sourcing. Maryland’s Piedmont Ridge and Glenn Young Farm