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Good Taste: At Lucy, a Master Pizzaiolo Spins Up Memorable Pizzas (Including a Craveable Hawaiian)
Giulio Adriani’s whole life is pizza. He’s been in the game for nearly four decades, working as a pizzaiolo, pizza consultant, and instructor, overseeing the opening of roughly 100 pizzerias and flipping, by his estimate, millions of pies. Along the way, he earned trophies at the World Pizza Championship and Pizza World Cup, as well…
The Carry-Out Critic Finds Quesabirria and Savory-Sweet Drinks at Taqueria Xochi
Taqueria Xochi is a woman-owned Mexican carry-out restaurant in Shaw. Owners Teresa Padilla and Geraldine Mendoza founded Taqueria Xochi after being furloughed early in the pandemic. Xochi started out in a commissary kitchen in Capitol Heights before its founders began running a pop-up concept in Little Beast in the summer of 2020. Padilla and mendoza…
Good Taste: Silver And Sons Smokes Up Barbecue With Mediterranean-Middle Eastern-Jewish Flair
I smell the truck before I see it. The sweet scent of smoke mixes with a pasticcio of seasonings and spices, some familiar, others that avoid quick identification. This intoxicating haze makes my mouth water, as my belly reminds me lunch was a long time ago. Coming around a turn, the source materializes: Silver and…
The Carry-out Critic Finds Tender Ribs and Savory Sides at Supreme Barbeque
Supreme Barbeque serves Texas-style barbecue at its restaurant located on the edge of Eckington in Northeast. Filipino-American father and son Juan and Jeremy Canlas opened their first location ten years ago in Lanham, with the D.C. store being their second. They took over the former New York Pizza spot at the busy intersection of North…
Young & Hungry Writers Digest a Quarter Century of Eating
City Paper staffers have never been high-class gourmands. We appreciate a nice meal as much as the next person, but as most people who’ve passed through its offices will tell you, the most anticipated meal of the week was often the snacks and beers shared after an issue closed on Wednesday night. As broke alt-weekly…
Manifesting a Bakery
After two years of running a bakery out of their home, Rick and Tyes Cook now refer to their dining table as a “murphy-table.” It might make an appearance at dinnertime, but otherwise, it’s moved to make room for what’s become the family’s bread and butter—their cottage bakery, Manifest Bread. Today, the couple announced that…
Good Taste: Donisima Crafts “Super Doughnuts” Rich With Latin Flavors
Doughnuts aren’t simple pastries; they are complex joy makers. Bite into a great one and you will feel a deep happiness, a childish (in the best way possible) pleasure that rockets you back through time. No matter your age, you will feel like a kid again for one giddy moment as you stuff your mouth…
Good Taste: Newland Blends Forward Thinking Cuisine With Nostalgic Throwbacks
At Newland, the soundtrack is all ’80s all the time. The Outfield’s infectious “Your Love” came on several times the night I visited, and Richard Marx’s treacly power ballad “Right Here Waiting” and The Cure’s heart-on-sleeve machismo takedown “Boys Don’t Cry” also made appearances. It’s all fun and familiar, and not necessarily what you’d expect…
A New Black-Owned Spirits Subscription Service Is Bringing Luxury to D.C.’s Doorsteps
Inspiration for Sip+Tipple, a D.C.-based Black spirits membership program, came to its founder while she was scrolling through her Instagram feed in 2020. While in quarantine, Kimberly Hall, who also serves as the company’s chief curator, came across a post from Angel Anderson, the owner of Spice Suite in Takoma. Her post promoted Blackleaf Vodka,…
The Carry-out Critic Balances Jerk Chicken Heat with Mac & Cheese at LuvPlates Soul & Grill
LuvPlates Soul & Grill is a Black-owned carryout restaurant that serves soul food with a Caribbean influence. Owners Jamar Johnson and Jacob Vcelik started booking catering events and serving lunch from a food truck in downtown D.C. in 2016. Their first food stand opened at the Savor Food Hall (now miXt Food Hall) in Brentwood…
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