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Alexandria Restaurant Week Returns
Jan 05,2012

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

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FOOD NOTES/Celebrating L’Auberge Chez Francois
Jan 05,2012

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


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Pork Barrel BBQ Finally Fires up the Smoker
Nov 30,2011

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.

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FOOD NOTES/Thanksgiving with the Franco-American Classics
Nov 23,2011

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.


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FOOD NOTES/Paying Homage to Thanksgiving
Nov 09,2011

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

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BUZZWORTHY/The Meridian House Rocks it
Oct 26,2011

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.

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FOOD NOTES/ Spooky Eats for ‘All Hallow’s Eve’
Oct 26,2011

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.

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Mount Vernon Brews Up a Special Dinner Experience
Oct 26,2011

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




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