Meat lovers in the District should check out one of Chinatown’s newest restaurant family members. Del Campo offers authentic South American cooking to its patrons. When you visit this restaurant, you allow your taste buds a little reward by feasting on something you would not find on your everyday, run-of-the-mill menu. I was pleasantly surprised when I [...]
*Special thanks to Chef Jess for today’s post dedicated to the upcoming Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day!! xoxo, Johnna Knows Good Food Mother’s Day is around the corner; and pleasing the mother of a Chef is no easy task. To fulfill the seafood lover in my mother and the health consciousness of this Registered Dietitian [...]
If you enjoy Mexican food as much as I do, you will love Café Rio. All of your favorite Mexican dishes are available fast and fresh. As you step into the café style restaurant, you immediately get the sense you are in Mexico. With music playing in the background and café tables, it has a [...]
*Spring is here! Today is the official beginning of Spring according to the calendar so to usher out the old with the new, I decided to post this recipe. The last of the winter dishes is here and from here on out we’ll focus our attention on salsa’s, pasta salads and light comfort foods. Enjoy, [...]
The wintertime would seem like the most ideal time for me to spend time in the kitchen. hibernating, trying new recipes, combining new spice combinations, the possibilities seem endless, don’t they? For yours truly, however, the winter is the time when I truly hibernate and thoughts of getting in the kitchen seem less and less [...]
What do I love more than good food? New good food. For this reason a call from Capital Cooking to join her for dinner at Piola did take much convincing where the restaurant just opened its doors on the 14th street corridor. Excited, I almost skipped to 14th street for much needed pizza and pasta [...]
Etiquette Tuesday: Lessons at Elisir
There are some restaurants in the District that I feel “meh” about visiting and then there are others that I feel excitement weeks in advance about visiting. This weeks Etiquette Tuesday focuses on my visit to Elisir, a Downtown Italian restaurant where I was especially anxious to visit this winter. Elisir is the restaurant you [...]
Art & Soul’s Artisanal Reopening Fair
After this year’s inauguration, Chef/Owner Art Smith opted to close down the restaurant for a month-long renovation. This past March, Art & Soul on Capital Hill threw a wonderful fair of a shindig to show off all of their recent changes for the menu and the restaurant’s aesthetic features. Among the new ambiance/decor and the tasty [...]
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