[Vid] Sunday Funday Noshing w/ One of the Nation's 'Best New Chefs'

DC tastemakers beat the heat — and shied away from Sunday afternoon’s showers — mere steps from the White House, at Equinox.  Chef Todd and Ellen Gray hosted a streetside BBQ to celebrate, meet and mingle with their “new” Chef Karen Nicolas, recently named Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chef of 2012!

Among those spotted chowing down on the chicken, cornbread and Nicolas’ notorious cured King salmon were Black Restaurant Groups’ Jeff Black, Daily Dish’s Zena Polin and Jerry Hollinger, Boxwood Winery’s Rachel Martin and (fresh from filming in TaiPei) Capital Cooking’s Lauren DeSantis.