I had the pleasure of attending the Iron Skillet® Cook Off Competition Hosted by Crimson in Manhattan on Monday evening October 22nd. This year marks their 11th annual cooking challenge between 5 New York City Firefighters and 5 Top Chefs. Each Firefighter begins by selecting a recipe, and then the top chef must vary it [...]
After a dear friends birthday brunch at Pranna, I have literally been waiting with bated breath for DC to catch onto the NY swing of things. By swing of things, I mean the new way to weekend brunch. Fujimar got the memo. The new way to brunch is the unlimited brunch followed up by the [...]
It’s not very often that I attend an event where I feel as though I have been transported to another space and time. From the moment I landed at the International Ferralle Exhibition at the Wook & Lattuada Gallery in New York, I knew that I was in for a special treat. Ferrarelle, the renowned [...]
If you are like me, you don’t like to taste the sugar in your desserts and pastries. When I can taste the sugar, I call it sugar-shoving, as in the sugar is shoved in my face and I am left with a feeling of guilt for consuming too much. Thanks to owner Alexander Petrossian, you [...]
WINE DOWN The 2011 New York City Wine & Food Festival takes place on September 29-October 2, 2011. Buitoni is the official sponsor for the festival this year and is giving away two tickets to the festival and a trip for two to NYC. Additionally, other prizes will be awarded including complimentary Buitoni frozen meals [...]
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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