Girl Meets Food

Mark your calendars for the DC VegFest, a free outdoor festival happening on Saturday, September 11, 2010 from noon to 6:00 pm (rain date is Sun., Sept 12), celebrating the best of everything vegetarian in and around the nation’s capital!

There’s something for everyone! Try free food samples, hear from dynamic speakers, and explore meat-free cuisine from some of the region’s best restaurants!

Attend cooking demonstrations, visit dozens of educational booths, shop from several different commercial vendors, and much more.

The DC VegFest, co-organized by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organizations Compassion Over Killing and the Vegetarian Society of D.C., will feature more than 50 different exhibitors as well as speakers including:

• Celebrity Chef Tal Ronnen,  author of New York Times bestseller The Conscious Cook
• Miss D.C. Mackenzie Green, winner of the 2010 Miss District of Columbia pageant
• Robert Cheeke, champion vegan bodybuilder
• Tracye McQuirter, M.P.H., public health nutritionist and author, By Any Greens Necessary
• Colman McCarthy, former Washington Post columnist journalist, professor and author.
• Wendy Rieger, NBC4-DC news anchor

The first 400 visitors will receive a free commemorative tote bag filled with food samples, coupons, and information about vegetarian eating.

University Yard at George Washington University
2000 block of H Street NW
Washington DC
Metro: Orange and Blue lines to Foggy Bottom/GWU

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Happy Labor Day!  Like Maru the cat here, I hope you get some rest!

Back for the sixteenth consecutive year, the Oyster Riot is one of the greatest parties of the year in Washington.  Always held the Friday and Saturday before Thanksgiving, the Oyster Riot is D.C.’s preeminent food and wine event.

Each night, nearly one-thousand people devour tens of thousands of oysters while enjoying the gold medal winners of the International Wines for Oysters Competition and grooving to our blues band, Mudcat.  In short, this ain’t no cocktail party.  It’s a Riot.

Due to the overwhelming demand for tickets and from the feedback we have received over the years, we are pleased to announce the debut of the Saturday Matinee Oyster Riot.  The matinee will take place from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 20, 2010.

Tickets will be $100 and a portion for the proceeds will go to benefit the Oyster Recovery Partnership, Chesapeake Appreciation Inc. Since it is a matinee performance, we will turn the volume down with a jazz trio so those who want to slurp and taste without the usual cacophony of the Riot can do so.

We will only be selling a limited amount of tickets to the matinee as the attendance will be about half of that of the evening Riots.  Other than that, it’s the same old Riot.  Great oysters, great wine, great time!

Tickets go on sale September 7, 2010 at 7:30 a.m. As there are no phone sales this year, please purchase tickets online or at the Old Ebbitt Grill.

Friday, November 19, 2010 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. $135
Saturday, November 20, 2010 12 to 3 p.m. $100
Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. $135

Old Ebbitt Grill
675 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005