Filed under:Food service staff are included in Phase 1C of D.C.’s vaccination plan, which begins in MarchD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened up COVID-19 vaccinations to this week, but customer-facing restaurant staff are still waiting for their turn despite being classified by the city as “essential” personnel throughout the pandemic.Starting Thursday, February 18, people in the following categories could begin for vaccine appointments: grocery store workers, manufacturing workers, food packaging workers, and workers in health and human services or social outreach. Those groups are part of the...…Filed under:Food service staff are included in Phase 1C of D.C.’s vaccination plan, which begins in MarchD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened up COVID-19 vaccinations to this week, but customer-facing restaurant staff are still waiting for their turn despite being classified by the city as “essential” personnel throughout the pandemic.Starting Thursday, February 18, people in the following categories could begin for vaccine appointments: grocery store workers, manufacturing workers, food packaging workers, and workers in health and human services or social outreach. Those groups are part of the...WW…

Filed under:The delivery-only restaurant comes from the same company that sells Mariah Carey cookies and Pauly D subsThe Buca di Beppo in Dupont Circle has assumed another identity as a delivery-only “ghost kitchen” that sells cheesesteak egg rolls, chicken “Parm-eroni,” Flavortown fries, and other items affiliated with bombastic, frosted-tipped TV chef. Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is from the same Connecticut Avenue NW address as the chain Italian restaurant.A Popville reader the virtual kitchen this week, and the sightings of jalapeno pig poppers there. The website for Fieri’s...…Filed under:The delivery-only restaurant comes from the same company that sells Mariah Carey cookies and Pauly D subsThe Buca di Beppo in Dupont Circle has assumed another identity as a delivery-only “ghost kitchen” that sells cheesesteak egg rolls, chicken “Parm-eroni,” Flavortown fries, and other items affiliated with bombastic, frosted-tipped TV chef. Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is from the same Connecticut Avenue NW address as the chain Italian restaurant.A Popville reader the virtual kitchen this week, and the sightings of jalapeno pig poppers there. The website for Fieri’s...WW…

Filed under:Pogiboy brings longganisa burgers, sinigang fried chicken, and more to the Block’s D.C. food hallWhen they were putting together the Filipino-American fast food menu at Pogiboy, a new food hall stall that opens downtown today inside the Block D.C., chefs Tom Cunanan and Paolo Dungca wanted to draw from a deep well of nostalgia for drive-thrus, use ingredients that reflect the ever-evolving food scene in the Philippines, and reflect both of those influences with classical techniques like they used to do the last time they teamed up, at a game-changing restaurant that was the...…Filed under:Pogiboy brings longganisa burgers, sinigang fried chicken, and more to the Block’s D.C. food hallWhen they were putting together the Filipino-American fast food menu at Pogiboy, a new food hall stall that opens downtown today inside the Block D.C., chefs Tom Cunanan and Paolo Dungca wanted to draw from a deep well of nostalgia for drive-thrus, use ingredients that reflect the ever-evolving food scene in the Philippines, and reflect both of those influences with classical techniques like they used to do the last time they teamed up, at a game-changing restaurant that was the...WW…

Filed under:Food writers, bloggers, and industry pros share their restaurant standbysFollowing an Eater tradition, we asked a group of restaurant critics, journalists, bloggers, and — as a new twist this year — a couple industry pros to weigh in on the year in food. Their answers to an annual survey will be revealed in several posts this week. First up, the dining experts share their “restaurant standbys” for takeout and delivery in 2020., Washington Post food critic: , , and (that fried chicken!) never failed to please, and for special occasions, reminded me what a talent we have in chef...…Filed under:Food writers, bloggers, and industry pros share their restaurant standbysFollowing an Eater tradition, we asked a group of restaurant critics, journalists, bloggers, and — as a new twist this year — a couple industry pros to weigh in on the year in food. Their answers to an annual survey will be revealed in several posts this week. First up, the dining experts share their “restaurant standbys” for takeout and delivery in 2020., Washington Post food critic: , , and (that fried chicken!) never failed to please, and for special occasions, reminded me what a talent we have in chef...WW…

Filed under:Adams Morgan barbecue bar Smoke & Barrel joins a growing group of businesses hoping to reemerge after a hibernation period, the barbecue joint and bourbon bar that has been a staple of D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood for the , announced this week that it can’t afford to keep operating. It joins a growing number of local bars, including neighborhood institutions such as in Bloomingdale and in Columbia Heights, to decide that halting operations already strained by the novel coronavirus crisis makes more sense than battling a grim business climate through the winter.Owner John...…Filed under:Adams Morgan barbecue bar Smoke & Barrel joins a growing group of businesses hoping to reemerge after a hibernation period, the barbecue joint and bourbon bar that has been a staple of D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood for the , announced this week that it can’t afford to keep operating. It joins a growing number of local bars, including neighborhood institutions such as in Bloomingdale and in Columbia Heights, to decide that halting operations already strained by the novel coronavirus crisis makes more sense than battling a grim business climate through the winter.Owner John...WW…

Filed under:Everyone from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Unitas passed through for a taste of flaky, rectangular pan pizzaLedo Restaurant, the iconic Maryland pizza shop that launched a regional chain with signature flaky, rectangular pies enjoyed by University of Maryland students, hit musicians, and professional sports stars, isn’t closing after all.Eater reported last week that owner Tommy Marcos Jr. was closing the College Park staple. A manager confirmed that news, and the restaurant on Instagram that it would be “closing permanently” on Sunday, November 22. Marcos, whose father co-founded...…Filed under:Everyone from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Unitas passed through for a taste of flaky, rectangular pan pizzaLedo Restaurant, the iconic Maryland pizza shop that launched a regional chain with signature flaky, rectangular pies enjoyed by University of Maryland students, hit musicians, and professional sports stars, isn’t closing after all.Eater reported last week that owner Tommy Marcos Jr. was closing the College Park staple. A manager confirmed that news, and the restaurant on Instagram that it would be “closing permanently” on Sunday, November 22. Marcos, whose father co-founded...WW…

Filed under:An employee at the H Street fixture is awaiting trial on charges that he groped a woman’s crotch at a bar downtown in 2019, a fixture on H Street NE that’s to be one of the in the city, has suspended a manager after the owners learned that he’s awaiting trial for a misdemeanor sexual abuse charge stemming from an incident in April 2019.The bar has removed Robin Miller from his position pending the result of a non-jury trial next year. According to charging documents on file with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Miller, a 32-year-old man, was arrested on October 1,...…Filed under:An employee at the H Street fixture is awaiting trial on charges that he groped a woman’s crotch at a bar downtown in 2019, a fixture on H Street NE that’s to be one of the in the city, has suspended a manager after the owners learned that he’s awaiting trial for a misdemeanor sexual abuse charge stemming from an incident in April 2019.The bar has removed Robin Miller from his position pending the result of a non-jury trial next year. According to charging documents on file with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Miller, a 32-year-old man, was arrested on October 1,...WW…

Filed under:The adjoining location of Taco Bamba won’t reopen either, the boundary-pushing modern Mexican restaurant in Penn Quarter where chef Victor Albisu presented a high-end alternative to his popular Taco Bamba taquerias, will not reopen in Penn Quarter.A representative for Albisu confirmed to Eater that both Poca Madre and the adjoining Taco Bamba — the lone D.C. location for the Northern Virginia-based group — have permanently closed. Washingtonian first the news Tuesday.Both restaurants have remained closed since D.C. implemented a dine-in ban March 16 and entered into various...…Filed under:The adjoining location of Taco Bamba won’t reopen either, the boundary-pushing modern Mexican restaurant in Penn Quarter where chef Victor Albisu presented a high-end alternative to his popular Taco Bamba taquerias, will not reopen in Penn Quarter.A representative for Albisu confirmed to Eater that both Poca Madre and the adjoining Taco Bamba — the lone D.C. location for the Northern Virginia-based group — have permanently closed. Washingtonian first the news Tuesday.Both restaurants have remained closed since D.C. implemented a dine-in ban March 16 and entered into various...WW…

Filed under:The owners of the hit ‘Jew-ish’ deli say they will implement new training and have changed bagel names that referred to Black athletes and musiciansD.C. bagel shop a series of changes to its business yesterday in an effort to answer criticism that the self-described “Jew-ish” deli has co-opted Black culture while building its following and winning national acclaim.Both Eater and have honored the deli with that have helped fuel a from its original location in the gentrifying Park View neighborhood. At the same time, input from residents and employees has forced the company to...…Filed under:The owners of the hit ‘Jew-ish’ deli say they will implement new training and have changed bagel names that referred to Black athletes and musiciansD.C. bagel shop a series of changes to its business yesterday in an effort to answer criticism that the self-described “Jew-ish” deli has co-opted Black culture while building its following and winning national acclaim.Both Eater and have honored the deli with that have helped fuel a from its original location in the gentrifying Park View neighborhood. At the same time, input from residents and employees has forced the company to...WW…

Filed under:The historic bar couldn’t withstand the pandemic, the owner saysThe Post Pub, a longtime haven downtown for newspaper production workers, journalists, and other devotees of cheap domestic beer and unfussy cheeseburgers, on Facebook today it will close after nearly 44 years of business under owner Bob Beaulieu. According to its website, the dark, dank space at 1422 L Street NW with a weathered green awning dates back to the 1860s and has housed one restaurant or another since 1934.In the bar’s farewell statement, Beaulieu writes “the COVID-19 pandemic and related factors” forced...…Filed under:The historic bar couldn’t withstand the pandemic, the owner saysThe Post Pub, a longtime haven downtown for newspaper production workers, journalists, and other devotees of cheap domestic beer and unfussy cheeseburgers, on Facebook today it will close after nearly 44 years of business under owner Bob Beaulieu. According to its website, the dark, dank space at 1422 L Street NW with a weathered green awning dates back to the 1860s and has housed one restaurant or another since 1934.In the bar’s farewell statement, Beaulieu writes “the COVID-19 pandemic and related factors” forced...WW…