Week in Review – 3/26/2023

Image: Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr, Comrade X (1940). Welcome readers to our weekly recap of activity on our site and other dining news. It is a relatively light week in the news, but we did manage to post about a couple recommended spots. Natural wine seems to be like chum that sets off a […]

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Week in Review – 3/19/2023

Image: Enzo Sellerio, Shipyard Workers (Palermo, Sicily. 1962). Spring is almost here dearest readers, though winter hardly left its mark on these parts. Ironically, California which only has the two seasons of sun and rain actually got a real winter. Soon the tourists will be upon us. With that in mind, we continue to freshen […]

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Week in Review – 3/12/2023

Image: Errol Flynn in The Perfect Specimen (1937). Welcome to our weekly recap of activity on our site and a roundup of dining news from D.C. and further afield. A light week in the dining guide with only one addition and no closings(!). Though there appears to be much work on the horizon to keep […]

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Week in Review – 3/5/2023

Image: Excelsior Paper, L’Equipe Photo © Agence Roger-Viollet Dearest Gentle Reader, we have a overflowing basket of news items for you today. We also need to correct an oversight. Last week we thanked those who have liked and retweeted our posts to help us scrape our way to 1000 followers. We were remiss in not […]

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Week in Review – 2/26/2023

Image: Frank and pancakes (1953). Dearest Gentle Reader, this week we marked a milestone and posted about one of our splurge worthy restaurants. There were many interesting things in the news, most prominently the influencer debate broke open. The economy sends mixed signals, and we have yet to resolve how we treat labor. All that […]

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Week in Review – 2/19/2023

Image: David Seymour, Rome, Street Market (1952). Dearest Gentle Reader, thank you for joining us for the weekly summary of dining news from D.C. and elsewhere, as well as a recap of activity on our site. It was a light week on D.C. news, so we engage in some speculation and suggest a story or […]

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Week in Review – 2/12/2023

Image: Giuseppe De Nittis, Breakfast in the Garden (1884) Thank you for reading our weekly recap of dining news from D.C. and further abroad. No big economic news, so it is dining dining news week here, including continued thoughts on the rise of Resy, a closed place we sincerely hope comes back, and DCist stepping […]

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Week in Review – 2/5/2023

Image: Peter Keetman, Aprilwetter (1954). This week we checked in on a landmark in D.C. In local news, some more heartbreaking closures. In national news, it is macroeconomic developments that raised eyebrows with sectoral shifts out of hospitality even as the jobs market booms. But there is much more than that dear gentle reader, so […]

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