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FOOD NOTES/Top Chef DC Comes to Hilton Old Town
Aug 25,2010

Politics as usual in our Nation's Capital but the DC Restaurant scene is on fire! Hilton Alexandria Old Town was excited to be right in the center of the heat as it was officially announced as the hotel partner for this season's "Top Chef DC." The Old Town hotel across from the King Street Metro is celebrating its partnership with the top-rated Bravo show with a Culinary Travel

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FOOD NOTES/Morton’s and Mondavi Host Mega Wine Dinner
Aug 12,2010

Morton’s The Steakhouse and the entire third and fourth generations of Napa Valley’s famed Mondavi family have joined forces to host a nationally simulcast wine dinner and charity auction on October 7 at the Charles Krug Winery Carriage House to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.


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STAYCATIONS/ First Class Family Fun at the Mandarin
Aug 04,2010

With a prominent location, just footsteps from the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial and the National Mall, The Mandarin Oriental makes traveling to the Capitol an idyllic summer weekend family getaway. This summer, the acclaimed hotel is offering a two-night “First Class Family Fun” package, available through Sept. 30,

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Dancing, Schmoozing and Wakeboarding in Alexandria
Aug 04,2010

It was another busy week in our fair city. We may have been suffocating in the heat, but we were still very much on the go, The city's businesspeople on the go gathered at Connect 113 for the Alexandria Chamber’s July Business After Hours last Thursday and then some of the same people joined others for the Washington


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EAT WASHINGTON/ My Favorite Markets: Mom's Organic Market in Del Ray
Jul 30,2010

Mrs. Nash must be a mom who is very proud of her son. At 22, in 1987, Scott Nash launched a business selling organic produce with $100. That's about what you can dish out on a single shopping trip to Whole Foods. Called back then Organic Foods Express, it started as a mail order and home delivery enterprise operating

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EAT WASHINGTON/ Eric Nelson's Artful Del Ray Dream
Jul 21,2010

It is a rare moment, says Rob Kingsbury and Eric Nelson, owners of Artfully Chocolate/Kingsbury Confections, that the two are found together, one of them holding the fort at the Alexandria store, the other manning the 14th St NW location, probably behind the bar area creating chocolate-based cocktails and drinks.

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GET OUT AND GIVE BACK/Food for Thought
Jul 21,2010

I love to eat. In fact, I’ll eat just because I’m happy, sad, nervous, relaxed, angry, stressed or excited. Sometimes I’ll even eat when I’m not even hungry if there’s food is in front of me. And so it was quite the scary experience for me recently when, aside from half of a chicken sandwich and an apple, I was unable to eat for 36 hours. Through a combination of bad luck and bad timing

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West Virginia's Governor to Keynote JJ Dinner
Jun 16,2010

The Alexandria Democratic Committee will be hosting its annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at the Hilton Mark Center Hotel on Thursday, June 24. The keynote speaker and honored guest will be Governor Joe Manchin of West Virginia.




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