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May 31, 2012
Members in the News | Exciting, information packed newsletter from Bisnow. Click here to read the full issue.
May 29, 2012
Tidbits | By Glenn Collins for The New York Times' 'Diner's Journal Blog'Last year, when Google paid $151 million to buy Zagat,the restaurant-ratings publisher, people wondered how it would integrate customer-generated restaurant guides and online reviews into its universe of search.Eight months later, Google is announcing that Zagat will become the cornerstone of a new free service, Google Plus...
May 29, 2012
Members in the News | Inside the Superstitious World of D.C. Restaurant Opening Rituals Posted on May 23, 2012 by Jessica Sidman Washington City PaperThe giant pot is screaming hot when Pete Smith grabs it and runs out the kitchen door. “Look out,” shouts the chef of Penn Quarter’s PS7 ’s.Smith swirls the contents—rosemary, thyme, garlic, lemongrass, star anise, and half a dozen other...
May 28, 2012
Members in the News | By David Hagedorn for The Washington Post Look closely into the open kitchens of Washington’s Elisir, Mintwood Place and Rogue 24, and Baltimore’s Wit and Wisdom. You’ll spot excellent visual representations, side by side, of two recent trends in American restaurant cookery: the emergence of modern technique and the rebirth of rustic, home-style cooking.At first, traditional...
May 25, 2012
Members in the News | Here's the early list of vendors.By Anna Spiegel, as published on Washingtonian.com - May 23, 2012There's been a quiet buzz around the transformation of Union Market --formerly known as the historic Florida Avenue or Centre Market--since developer Edens signed on to the project in 2007. Delays due to the economy and a fire pushed the project back, but now the opening is finally approaching in...
May 24, 2012
Members in the News | By Tim Carman, Food Reporter for The Washington Post Jeff Black, the restaurateur who has given us such places at BlackSalt in the Palisades and Addie’sin Rockville, really hates it when journalists and bloggers refer to his expanding restaurant “empire.” It’s kind of hard to blame him: Just Google “Jeff Black” and “restaurant empire,” and check...
May 15, 2012
Press Release | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Betsy Allman, Policy Advisor202.331.5990 or betsy@ramw.org Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington...
May 14, 2012
Legislation | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Betsy Allman, Policy Advisor202.331.5990 or betsy@ramw.org Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington...
May 10, 2012
Members in the News | At CityZen, chefs cook up sweet movesBy Sarah Kaufman, TheWashingtonPost.com, May 2012 First in an occasional series. Great kitchens match drill-field precision with gestural art. The best cooks possess a soldier’s obedience and a dancer’s grace, transcending the dangers with meditative beauty. “I fell in love with Eric when I saw him move in the kitchen,”...
May 2, 2012
| Click to view the photo gallery of the RAMW April Social & 2012 Duke Zeibert Honoree Announcement hosted by The Hamilton a Hottest Bar Scene finalist of the 2012 RAMMYS Awards Gala. The event was sponsored by the National Associton the Specialty Food Trade who is once again bringing the Fancy Food Show to DC June 17 - 19, 2012. ...
May 1, 2012
Tidbits | April 2012 Click to view the Southern Living and Metrocurean DC Summer Guide
May 1, 2012
Tidbits | latimes.com Upscale restaurants are dressing down to attract younger people, fine restaurants dispense with pristine, quiet formality, revamp their menus, update their decor and extend their hours. By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles TimesApril 29, 2012 Water Grill, with its attentive servers, white tablecloths and hushed formality, was long a stalwart of L.A.'s old-guard...
May 1, 2012
Members in the News | April 24, 2012 This week’s !Chef is Enzo Fargione of Elisir! ! Chef Enzo FargioneGrowing up in Torino, Italy, Chef Enzo learned to love cooking via his mother’s example at a very early age and has never stopped. At fourteen, he enrolled in The Professional Culinary Institute in Turin, Italy and finished at the top of his class. In 1986, after having workedin numerous...
April 30, 2012
Hot Topics | DC Sustainable Energy Utility Announces New Incentive Initiative for BusinessesIncentives available to help commercial and institutional customers install energy-efficient equipment May 1, 2012 (Washington, D.C.) – The DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DC SEU) today announced the lincentive program designed to help businesses and institutions in the District upgrade to new energy-...
April 29, 2012
Press Release | WASHINGTON, DC (April 30th, 2012) – The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) is excited to announce this year’s recipient of the Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award, former Mayor of the District of Columbia, Anthony A. Williams. The Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award was presented this evening at The Hamilton in downtown Washington, DC. Introduced by...
