Despite Arlington's burgeoning culinary scene, the local restaurants nominated for the 2010 RAMMY awards were shut out at tonight's ceremony. The annual awards dinner, organized by the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, was held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Northwest D.C. The Arlington nominees who went home empty-handed were: EatBar (Neighborhood Gathering Place of the
Eight D.C.-area restaurants will be recognized with this year’s Honorary Milestone RAMMY Awards for their decades of operation in the D.C. restaurant scene.
There are three new restaurants in the D.C. area. Doro Soul Food will open Nov. 17 in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood at 1819 7th Street, N.W. Timber Pizza Co. has opened an outpost at Reagan National Airport. Chicago-based Aloha Poke Co. will open its first location in Maryland, with a franchise in Gaithersburg.