After a successful inaugural year, vino and savory bites are ready to return to the Carlyle District in Alexandria when the 2nd Annual Alexandria Food & Wine Festival returns on Saturday, June 22, 2013.
The signature event will transform the Carlyle District into a lively festival, complete with live entertainment, a children’s corner, food and wine tasting. Attendees will be able to sample food and wine from a variety of local restaurants and Virginia’s wineries. Local restaurants will compete for the best appetizer, the best main course and the best dessert. This year’s judge panel includes ABC7/WJLA Good Morning Washington News Anchor Scott Thuman, 94.7 Fresh FM Kelly Collis from The Tommy Show, Lisa Shapiro from Dining in DC, and Molly Ahern from DC foodie site The List Are You On It.
Alexandria’s Food and Wine Festival 2013 Participating Restaurants and wineries include:
Wineries: Democracy Vineyard, Ducard Vineyards, Athena Vineyards & Winery, Three Fox Vineyards, Lake Anna Winery, The Williamsburg Winery, Cobbler Mountain Cellars, Glass House Winery, Mattaponi Winery, Naked Mountain Winery & Vineyards, Cedar Creek Winery, Ingleside Vineyards, Notaviva Vineyards, Fabbioli Cellars
Restaurants: La Tasca, Walker’s Grille, Clyde’s at Mark Center, Alexandria Cupcake, San Antonio Bar & Grille, Rita’s Ice, Trademark, Theismann’s Restaurant and Bar, Wholefoods, Crepe Deli, and Railstop Gastro Pub (more to be added)
Children’s Corner: This year’s arts and crafts activities are provided by SCRAP DC. Scrap DC is a creative reuse nonprofit serving the Greater DC area. SCRAP DC volunteers will set up in the Children’s Corner with supplies for eco-friendly Make-It Take-It stations.
A portion of the festival proceeds will benefit Alive! Inc. – ALexandrians InVolved Ecumenically – an organization of volunteers from more than 40 religious congregations dedicated to helping Alexandrians in need.
This year’s festival sponsors includes: City of Alexandria, Carlyle Community Council, Nova Advertising, Post Properties, Ourisman Ford/ Lincoln of Alexandria, La Tasca, Wholefoods Market, Washington Parent Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine and ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8. For a complete schedule of activities visit www.alexandriafoodandwine.com.
EVENT DETAILS
What: 2nd Annual Alexandria’s Food and Wine Festival
When: Saturday, June 22, 2013
Where: John Carlyle Square in the Carlyle District of Alexandria. 300 John Carlyle Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Time: 12pm-7pm
Website: http://www.
Cost: This is a FREE event to attend; however tickets are needed to sample food and beverages. Food samples: $15 for 8 taste tickets.
Wine Garden is $10 per person. This gives access to the wine garden with tasting samples from the wineries.
Transportation: One block from King Street Metro. Ample garage and street parking.
Every year on June 21, streets, town squares, and riversides across the country in France are filled with an outpouring of rhythm and sound in the annual Fête de la Musique. Inspired by this much-anticipated tradition, the Alliance Française and Malmaison will play host to DC audiences for their own journey across musical worlds.
This year’s celebration will take place right along the Potomac, with a grande fête that will transform Malmaison and the surrounding area into a haven where musicians, music enthusiasts, artists, food lovers, families, neighbors and strangers alike collide for an all-day musical experience.
Local and visiting performers will perform and animate this DC edition of a phenomenon that began in France and has now spread to hundreds of countries around the world.
Admission is free until midnight and a portion of food, beverage and additional proceeds will be donated to a local charity.
Participating artists (current as of May 30)
El Buffon
Location : Malmaison // 3401 Water St, NW
Pricing : Noon-Midnight: Free. After midnight: $5-$10.
Info: www.francedc.org
Silverdocs connects storytellers and international filmmakers for a week of incredible documentary screenings, panels and workshops – providing inspiring discourse on worldly issues. Letters to Jackie, a documentary of heartwarming letters addressed to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is set to open the AFI conference and festival.
June 19-23
Time, prices and locations vary.
Food and Bottle Service (Cabanas) available.
Silverdocs connects storytellers and international filmmakers for a week of incredible documentary screenings, panels and workshops – providing inspiring discourse on worldly issues. Letters to Jackie, a documentary of heartwarming letters addressed to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is set to open the AFI conference and festival.
June 19-23
Time, prices and locations vary.
The 2013 RAMMY Awards Gala returns again this year for a festive evening built around the idea that in Metropolitan Washington, restaurants aren’t just thriving, they are experiencing a region-wide economic boom with new neighborhoods in bloom and the industry as a whole growing its vast footprint. According to the National Restaurant Association, restaurants in the District alone are projected to generate sales of approximately $2.7 billion in 2013.
“The hard work, vision and passion from these talented restaurateurs and culinary professionals has planted the seeds for this now ‘blooming’ dining scene we have here in Washington, DC,” said Kathy Hollinger, president of the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW). “The growth of the restaurant community really speaks to the growth of the region and we look forward to honoring this great industry on June 23.”
The RAMMYS begin with a cocktail reception at 6 pm, hosted by Boxwood Estate Winery and partners in the Virginia wine and beverage industry. The awards ceremony will follow at 7 pm with one hour of exciting awards presentations followed by a buffet-style dinner featuring the foods and wines of Chile and an exciting menu from Meat and Livestock Australia, just to name a few. The finalists for Beverage/Mixology program of the year will serve their RAMMY cocktails at specialty bars throughout the ballroom and a live band will set the scene for dancing and festivities until midnight.
Tickets to the RAMMYS are available for $225 for RAMW members, $300 for non-members, and may be purchased online at www.therammys.org, by calling 202.331.5990 or by email at therammys@ramw.org.
The Cathedral Choral Society, Washington’s oldest choral society, and CCS’ Music Director, J. Reilly Lewis, present Cathedral Sings! a sing-along open to anyone in the D.C. community. Singers of every ability are welcome to come and sing along, accompanied by organist, Todd Fickley, on one of the grandest pipe organs in the world at the Washington National Cathedral.
CCS’ Cathedral Sings! will be held Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. featuring Mozart’s Requiem–known as Mozart’s musical last will and testament.
For the $10 admission fee, anyone can rent the score and become part of the choir. Participants also will have a chance to win two tickets to a future CCS concert.
*$10 per person includes the rental of the musical score
José Andrés and friends launch the first annual Dine N Dash in support of World Central Kitchen. This wandering feast of Penn Quarter, allows guests to stroll between six of the top dining destinations in DC including Azur, Jaleo, Oyamel, Poste, Proof and Zaytinya to sample specialty plates and delectable cocktails.
Tickets start at $150 for the culinary tour and $350 for a VIP pass which includes a stop at the exclusive barmini alongside José Andres himself. All proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen.
When: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm (VIP tour starts at 5:30pm)
Why: José Andrés believes strongly in leveraging the power of food to find solutions to many of the world’s problems When he and partner Rob Wilder founded World Central Kitchen, they did so with the hope of helping to end food insecurity and malnutrition in Haiti and the world. All Dine N Dash proceeds will go directly to support the remarkable development programs that World Central Kitchen is undertaking such as the Sustainable School Canteen in Palmiste Tampe; the Large Scale Feeding System in Codevi, Ouanaminthe; the Bakery in Zamni Beni, Crois de Bouquetes; and the Elie du Bois Culinary School.
Counting Crows
Special Guest: The Wallflowers
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 7 pm
$35-$48
San Francisco-based band Counting Crows quickly gained fame in the early 1990s when they filled in for Van Morrison and performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1993 they released their debut album, August and Everything After, which featured the No. 2 single “Mr. Jones.” A few years later, their album Recovering the Satellites (1996) went platinum and spent 50 weeks on the Billboard chart, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In 2005 their single “Accidentally in Love” was featured on the Shrek 2 soundtrack and was nominated for a Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award. In 2012 they releasedUnderwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation), a collection of 15 interpretive covers.
Roots/rock band The Wallflowers, which is fronted by singer/songwriter and guitarist Jakob Dylan, is making its Filene Center debut. The group is best known for their Grammy Award-winning album, Bringing Down the Horse (1996), which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart and featured the hit single “One Headlight.” After a seven-year hiatus, the band most recently released Glad All Over (2012). In reference to the album, Rolling Stone said “[The Wall Flowers]…picked up where it left off: with sharp roots-rock songs full of sturdy hooks, deadpan jokes and pathos that sneaks up on you.”
We request the honor of your presence at the Dance Trance Launch Party on Tuesday, June 25th from seven to nine o’clock in the evening
The party, aptly titled “Keeping it Classy,” will be a celebration of the Grand Opening of Dance Trance’s second location – Dance Trance Foggy Bottom located at 2401 M Street, Northwest, inside the Fairmont Hotel, Washington, D.C., Georgetown
Dance Trance has taken Washington, D.C. by storm since its opening at Thomas Circle one year ago – captivating over 1,500 young professional men and women with its fun nightclub-like dance moves, community atmosphere and innovative fitness program
Dance Trance will offer a free class on the 25th at twelve fifteen in the afternoon and we’ll be celebrating the Grand Opening with a cocktail party that evening with champagne, wine, spirits, passed hors d’oeuvres, music, dancing and giveaways
There will be plenty of opportunities to tour the new space
