Burger Beat

Spend Memorial Day at Purcellville's Market Burger

The pickle is the most maligned of toppings. It is scraped off burgers more often than it is eaten with them. But wasting the pickles at the new Market Burger Fries & Shakes...

Sugar Shack

Stop into Sugar Magnolia for special hummus

Sugar Magnolia, the tiny space in front of Cleveland Park’s Ripple, bills itself as a bakery. The counter display holds chewy chocolate chip cookies ($1.25), butterscotch...

Smack Talk

Delivery bakery Smack bakes perfect cannelés

France's Bordeaux region connotes bold, earthy wine for most. But for pastry lovers, it's the holy land of rum-spiked cannelés. A finicky pastry that necessitates precise...

Palace of Pork

Charcuterie boutique Three Little Pigs noses into Petworth

Call it a shrine to swine. What first greets visitors to Petworth's new charcuterie boutique, Three Little Pigs, is a giant pig etched into the floor. It is a fitting welcome at...

Fair Food

Society Fair brings the best of Restaurant Eve to its shelves

Most of us will never cook like Cathal Armstrong. But the chef's new market and wine bar, Society Fair, sells enough of his favorite items to let us would-be chefs come pretty...

Sour Sport

Gordy's Pickle Jar is an essential cupboard staple

Peter Piper would have been out of place in Washington. Because despite a renaissance of local baked goods, jams and soups to keep other nursery characters' cupboards packed,...