Meet the Industry’s Future Leaders
From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week
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This week, we announced the 2021 class of the Eater New Guard, a group of future leaders that are making a positive change in the world of food. The people on the list chefs, restaurateurs, activists, and farmers are working towards building a better future, centered on serving their communities and supporting others.
Last spring when the pandemic hit and we paused our decade-long Young Guns program, it gave us a chance to think about how we would refresh the series in 2021 and what kind of leaders we want to highlight in a post-pandemic world. We decided to expand the mission to include up-and-comers who don’t necessarily work in restaurants but care deeply about food and their communities.
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After nearly a year of Zoom happy hours and small shindigs on someone’s back porch, you and your best gals are probably ready for a proper “Girls Night Out.” You know, one that entails getting dressed up in a new outfit that no one has seen, and ordering an Über (because you are nothing if not responsible!) Perhaps table service at a restaurant you’ve all been eager to try, followed by out-of-the-ordinary – but safe – shenanigans, or merely a slice of respite from the rigmarole of everyday life. Plain and simple, you need a “Girls Night Out” that involves lots of laughter with the crew of ladies you missed so dearly during quarantine. Thanks to science and the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, that’s becoming more possible. Here are our suggestions for a swinging evening with your squad.
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CureCo. founder Neil Bodenheimer behind the bar at Dauphine s, a New Orleans-inspired restaurant opening in DC. Photography by Jen Chase
Dauphine’s, the New Orleans-inspired restaurant from the team behind Salt Line, opens Friday, May 7 in downtown DC with some big names from the Big Easy at the helm. Executive chef Kristen Essig joins Salt Line talent Kyle Bailey in the kitchen; prior to moving to Washington she spent two the past two decades cooking at spots like Emeril’s and running her own Southern restaurant, Coquette. Behind the bar program is partner and native New Orleanian Neal Bodenheimer, the owner of three award-magnet cocktails bars in his hometown: Cure, Cane & Table, and Vals. The challenge for both: how do you take a food and drink culture as rich, storied, and entrenched in place as the one in New Orleans and translate it to a brand new 145-seat restaurant in downtown DC?