Weekly Food News Round-Up

All the D.C. news that’s fit to eat (and drink).

This week in BYT Food: Taste Tests, First Looks and More

• We celebrated National Hot Dog Day with our own video game inspired dogs as well as places to find the best hot dogs in town.
  
• We joined in on the Veggie Burger Smackdown on the Hill. After all of the hot dogs consumed, it was only right to give meat a break.
• This week’s Hidden in Plain Sight featured The Maine Avenue’s Fisherman Wharf. If you’re looking for affordable, authentic Maryland crab, this is definitely the place to go.
  
• We tried out Jack Rose’s Tiki Bar and experienced a delicious booze-filled paradise.
  
• After years of never truly experiencing all of the food wonders of D.C., we finally went on a Carpe DC Food Tour and ate (and drank, what’s new?) our way through the city.
• And we poisoned one of our interns through a homemade Goetze’s Carmel Candy BBQ Sauce. *note: he’s alive just slightly traumatized.

Upcoming Food Events:

• All of July – The Twisted Horn will do previews every Wednesday evenings throughout July, ahead of their official opening.
• July 29 – Chef Majorie Meek-Bradley will be taking over Jug & Table Tuesday and Wednesday night with a six-course menu accompanied by a soundtrack highlighting music from the last five decades.
• July 31– Remember when Super Size Me made us freak out about the fast food industry. Well now there’s That Sugar Film coming to the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market that will scare you even more
• August 1 – Daikaya Izakaya hosts a late night “Burger Smackdown,” where you can watch / eat for only $5 a burger.
• August 1– Washington City Paper presents Wine Yards at Yard Park from 1-5. Get your tickets now, get drunk later.
• August 6-It’s hard enough finding food trucks alone. So they’re all coming together at the Phillips Collection 5^th Annual Food Truck Fiesta. Plus sangria and music.
• August 9- The 7^th annual DC Beer Week kicks off with a Brewers on the Block celebration that will feature a taste from all local breweries.
•  August 9-16 – D.C. Beer Week seeks to educate all on good beer through events and seminars, kicking off with an event at Union Market featuring 20 of the region’s best breweries.
• August 10 – EatWell DC’s partner restaurants will host the 4th Annual Dining Out With The Dogs, a benefit for City Dogs Rescue.
• Summer Long – Matchbox has launched their Summer Sessions Happy Hour equipped with drinks and bites at special prices. Participating restaurants include Commissary, Grillfish, Logan Tavern & The Pig.
• Summer Long  – Chef Christopher Morgan of The Partisan curated a new menu at McClellan’s Retreat in Dupont, featuring new bites Angostura Beef Jerky and a Pork Belly Cuban sandwich.
• Summer Long – DC’s Middle Eastern inspired pop-up Kafta Burgers is serving up fresh burgers for those with adventurous pallets.
• Summer Long  – Del Campo will be offering a fixed price traditional Argentine asado dinner.

Other Food News:

• If you’re traveling out of DC, here are great places to eat in and around Union Station so you won’t starve on the way there (via Eater).
• Alfa Piehouse has opened a cafe which will be serving Greek foods and desserts (via Eater).
• Whole Foods in Ashburn has opened up a pub which will feature barrel-aged cocktails and local absinthe (via Eater).
• Columbia Heights has welcomed sushi into its neighborhood with the opening of Shanghai Tokyo (via Popville)
• And in other unexpected press releases, Hard Rock Cafe will now be serving Hard Rock Energy Drinks at all locations for Hard Rockers playing Hard Rock Guitars (via press release).
• How about an interactive arepa map? Do you even know what arepas are? Get familiar here (via Eater).
• Looking for a place to take your date on without blowing major cash? 17 Cheap dates under 20 includes Little Red Fox and outdoor movie screenings via (Thrillist).
• Stanton & Greene on Capitol Hill started serving “all day brunch,” which doesn’t make sense for a meal that is a portmanteau of the words “breakfast” and “lunch” (via press release).

• Zeke Emanuel will start serving a breakfast menu at Union Market for two weekends only (via City Paper).
• Luke’s Lobster in Bethesda reopened Wednesday, and they’re not just takeout anymore (via Eater).
• Plus Bandolero closed in Georgetown, a bummer for those looking for Mexican food in the area (via Eater).
• An editorial in the Post examines the problematic usage of the term “ethnic” to describe food (via WaP0)
• Big things are coming to the Shaw neighborhood. La Jambe, a French cheese and wine bar is set to open next year (via City Paper).
• Heat Da Spot Cafe is slated to open soon in the old Tibet shop on Georgia Ave, complete with extremely cozy interior decor (via PoPville).
• There’s a new farmers market on Wednesdays in Columbia Heights from now until September 30 (PoPville).