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August 1, 2012
Members in the News | By Tammy Tuck for The Washington City Paper Posted July 31, 2012How have Megan Parisi and Greg Engert, the duo behind forthcoming brewery Bluejacket, spent their time preparing for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group's newest venture? We'll have the chance to find out this week. At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, ChurchKey will unveil Bluejacket's first five collaboration beers on draft, including one from...
July 30, 2012
Members in the News | By The Nature Conservancy , supported by OpenTable Washington, D.C. | July 26, 2012 The foodies of D.C. have spoken, and the most popular “green” restaurant in the city this year is Founding Farmers. After two rounds of online and mobile voting, the People’s Choice 2012 Nature’s Plate Award came to a close with Founding Farmers reigning supreme in the D.C. metro area...
July 29, 2012
Hot Topics | Lynne Breaux Announces Plans to Step Down as President of theRestaurant Association Metropolitan Washington At the July Board of Directors meeting on Monday July 30, President of the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), Lynne Breaux, informed members that she will not seek renewal of her contract with RAMW when it expires. ...
July 27, 2012
Members in the News | By Katie Aberbach for ExpressNightOut.comJuly 26, 2012 Logan Cox is driving south down Porter Street NW, making small talk with passengers about a wedding he recently attended, when he interrupts himself to point out a small median covered with lavender-like weeds blowing in the breeze.“The other day, I stopped there and filled up a big bag of that wild chicory,” says Cox, the...
July 26, 2012
Members in the News | Destination Dining: Restaurateurs are organizing trips abroad for adventurous foodiesBy Missy Frederick , Washington Business Journal A taste of homemade ricotta cheese, right out of the vat in Italy. Dinner at a restaurant in someone’s home in Havana. A visit to a plant where cashews are processed in southern India.Your tour guides? Some of the Washington area’s best-known chefs....
July 25, 2012
Members in the News | A look at The Washington Post's "food calendar" offers a tantalizing glimpse at the smorgasbord ahead. Great events lined up from Farm-to-Fork Loudoun to whiskey tastings at Morton's, beer dinners and more. The DC area is delectable. Check out the Washington Post food calendar for July 26-Aug. 8.
July 25, 2012
Sustainability | Can Urban Farming Go Corporate?By Nicholas Kusnetz for Reuters July 19, 2012Farmshave sprouted in cities across the country over the past several years as activists and idealists pour their sweat into gritty soil. Now Paul Lightfoot wants to take urban agriculture beyond the dirt-under-your-nails labor of love. He wants to take it corporate.In June, Lightfoot's company, BrightFarms, announced a...
July 19, 2012
Sustainability | By Scott Parisi for Hotel News ResourceOriginally published July 9, 2012You may know your top suppliers but do you know what their environmental policy is for 2013? I would hate to see green hotels loose a large percentage of revenue because they don’t know how to answer the environmental questionnaire that is becoming mandatory from many corpo-rate traveler buyers.In many of the years I...
July 12, 2012
Sustainability | By Anca Novacovici, President and Founder, Eco Coach for The Huffington Post July 9, 2012Sustainability is ubiquitous -- it is on the news, touted on corporate websites, and marketed on the products we find on the shelf. The Harvard Business Review defined it as a business mega-trendin 2010, putting it in the same category as electrification, mass production, information technology and...
July 12, 2012
Members in the News | By Anca Novacovici, President and Founder of Eco-Coach for The Huffington Post July 9, 2012Sustainability is ubiquitous -- it is on the news, touted on corporate websites, and marketed on the products we find on the shelf. The Harvard Business Review defined it as a business mega-trendin 2010, putting it in the same category as electrification, mass production, information technology and...
July 6, 2012
Members in the News | By Tom Hay for Borderstan July 5, 2012DC Mayor Vincent Gray had dinner at Hank’s Oyster Bar in Dupont Circle on Thursday night. The mayor’s visit to the popular restaurant at 1624 Q Street NW happened as the restaurant is embroiled in another chapter of a seven-year-long regulatory battle with a small group of neighborhood residents. Hank’s Chef and owner Jamie Leeds greeted the...
June 30, 2012
Members in the News | By Monica Boland for On Tap OnlineJuly 1, 2012 The “eat local” movement has swept the nation. Health-conscious consumers and foodies alike are purchasing locally-grown food to support farmers and restaurants in their area. On July 26, almost 50 farms and restaurants in Loudoun County will join forces for an 11-day culinary celebration of local fare. The second annual Farm-to-Fork...
June 29, 2012
Members in the News | Originally posted in Flavor Magazine June 28, 2012Set your calendars for July 26 to August 5. That’s the second annual Farm-to-Fork Loudounculinary celebration which brings together Loudoun farmers and chefs, sometimes for the first time. The nearly two dozen participating businesses commit to using at least 70 percent locally sourced produce and meat on special “farm to fork”...
June 29, 2012
Hot Topics | By Jessica Sidman for Washington City Paper June 27, 2012This past weekend, the brunch crowd sipped Bloody Marys and chatted over lobster rolls and French toast on Hank’s Oyster Bar’s packed patio. Or rather, half-packed.Twenty of the 40 seats on the restaurant’s newly expanded outdoor seating area are gone, leaving an empty, fenced-in concrete slab. A large sign posted there...
June 26, 2012
Press Release | Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington Announces Educated Eats Scholarship AwardsWashington, DC (June 27, 2012) – Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2012 Educated Eats Scholarship Awards. The following individuals have shown considerable interest in and commitment to the restaurant industry, and will pursue their culinary...
