Summer grubbing festival #2:

200 variety of beverages, 40 food vendors, 1 VIP booth, 1 perfect dusky early evening, and 1 broken Canon prime lens translates to a picture imperfect great time!

Shockers of the evening: Far Bar Little Tokyo serves decent food! Pop-up robata at Chaya’s booth turned out superior beef kebabs than Chaya Downtown. A top chef master herself plated festival food.

Discoveries: Cafe Was’s Alex Rezick (Top Chef DC) has a killer off-camera smile. People love, LOVE! sausages served as street meet, e.g. see Brats Brother‘s long line. T-Salon‘s vanila oolong was perfectly complex and cleansing at the end of 30 plate tasting binge. Let Milk’s ice cream sandwiches on dry ice soften before biting & cracking a filling. Momed Market does not want you to call their duck schwarma “taco”. It is possible to be inspired by rose petal treats from Valerie’s Confections at a charity event. Rose bushes at home better watch out. You will miss people you know at a food & wine free for all.

Fave dish of the evening: Cafe Was’ fried lardon, ie, Chef Reznik: “eat it in 1 bite”. Everyone: “uhmmm.. how?”. I went top-down, followed it up by licking the plate. It worked and was sickeningly tasty for catered food.

As witnessed and testified by Stuffy Cheaks! As experienced by Noms, Not Bombs!

Linkage to write ups by DTAB, HNL to be included as published.

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