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The Top Chefs to Watch in Washington, D.C.

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The next time you are considering your dining destination, try something different, and choose based on the chef versus the cuisine. Chef Scott Muns has the ability to create an exquisite, fine dining experience. Chef Spike Mendelsohn is also passionate about food sustainability and combating food waste.

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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

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Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side.

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Hawai?i’s Mushroom Boom Is Here

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It took Yang years to fine-tune turning local green waste into mushroom substrate. But mushrooms are now grown widely enough that anyone, from a Costco shopper to a fine dining-seeking tourist, is likely to come face-to-face with local funghi. The islands’ valleys and coastlines once sustained over a million native Hawaiians.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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If courses were inspired by something exact, the servers mentioned its scene of origin: After Catelyn Stark arrests Tyrion Lannister at an inn, she dines on onions dripping in juices, and we got the same. At Elizabeth under Regan, her use of these sources transcended dining room cliche. Vaneda Vireak.

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The Best Salad Chains In America

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By 2015, the chain had opened 12 additional locations. for several reasons, but one of the biggest reasons for its popularity is its inspiring commitment to sustainability. These salads are seriously loaded and finely chopped. I enjoyed dining at Chop Stop because the interior reminds me of hanging out late at night in college.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

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This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. percent between 2015 and 2018, compared with a 2.5

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

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When I began baking professionally, the pastry cook trajectory was rather straightforward — you put in your time working in fine dining and worked your way up to pastry chef. In 2015, Bonnie Ohara founded Alchemy Bread in Modesto, California, after experimenting with bread baking at home.