Food News You Can Use: National Chocolate Cupcake Day Edition

Bethesda Row’s own restaurant week starts today, offering diners a $15 three-course lunch and a $30 three-course dinner. (Girl Meets Food)
Historic New York hot spot P.J. Clarke’s opened on Friday at 1600 K St. NW featuring a raw-bar and mid-Atlantic favorites. (WeLoveDC)
Prince of Petworth speculates that a Z Burger may be soon opening at the Tivoli Theatre in Columbia Heights. (Prince of Petworth)

Restaurateurs Jeff and Barbara Black are hosting a pig roast competition this week at Black Market Bistro to raise money for the Diabetes Care Complex at the Children’s National Medical Center. (TBD)
The Beard Awards change formats to stop the historic marginalization of online food writing. (Eater)
Speed dating didn’t work last night? No worries, a new class on how to cook for one is now being offered. (Examiner)
Colman Andrews, co-founder of Saveur, is leading the charge at the new food site, The Daily Meal. Andrews talks about the site’s philosophy in his welcome note.
Pumpkin beer, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter? Kumiko Mitarai enlightens us. (Serious Eats)
My fellow eaters, let us not forget the great chocolate cupcakes that have come before us. Go out and celebrate National Chocolate Cupcake Day today! (Northern Virginia magazine)
Mixx Bar and Lounge at The Renaissance Hotel has teamed up with the New York restaurant, Blue Ribbon, to craft a new menu featuring bites such as BBQ pork sliders and golden-honey chicken wings. (Thrillist)
Joy the Baker really gets me, or so I think. Pumpkin pie pop tarts with maple glaze? Yeah, I think so. (Joy the Baker)
Here’s a case of reverse migration for you: BLT Group has announced it will bring D.C.’s family-style restaurant, Casa Nonna, to the Big Apple this spring. (Grub Street)
Don’t even think about calling chef Jose Andres‘ cooking, “molecular gastronomy.” (Eater)