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Author: Elise Hartman Ford
Contributor: Colleen Clark
ISBN: 0-9766013-4-6
Price: $17.95
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NIGHT+DAY D.C.
Behind Washington’s buttoned-up facade is a thriving city that rocks late into the night. After touring the world-class attractions, enjoy a fabulous meal, then dance the night away at one of the city’s sexy new lounges.
September Love Letter
After its August recess, Congress returns to town on the 14th, and what inquiring minds want to know is: Will Rep. Charlie Rangel and Rep. Maxine Waters really drag their Democratic colleagues through high-profile ethics trials just months before the mid-terms? Will criminal investigations into Sen. John Ensign’s sexual dalliances threaten to undermine Republican gains in the Senate? Or will some other scandal loom? Happily, cooler heads and hipper attitudes prevail throughout the rest of town, especially this month, when so much else is going on.
Let’s start with the Kennedy Center’s salute to Mexico’s 200 years of independence and the 100th anniversary of its 1910 revolution. The center’s Mexico celebration debuts Sept. 11 during its annual—and ever popular—Open House Arts Festival and continues for three weeks with a full slate of dance and music performances (kennedy-center.org/programs/newseason).
Fashion makes a splash, not once but twice this month. On Sept. 10, DC joins London, New York, and other global hotspots to throw a Fashion Night Out full of special events, promotions, and shopping in and around Georgetown (fashionsnightout.com). Fashion Week returns Sept. 20–26 with events at venues around town that include the Textile Museum, Indonesian Embassy, and French Embassy (dcfashionweek.org).
And for pure fun, you can’t beat the National Zoo’s lineup, from the Fiesta Musical (Sept. 19), heralding Latin American heritage, to “Grapes with Apes” (Sept. 23), a wine tasting with live music and a curious audience of the zoo’s most party-friendly primates ( natzoo.si.edu).
Elise Ford
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D.C. (2010):
José Andrés (Restaurateur)
 If the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach, José Andrés had D.C. at “Jaleo.” Jaleo is the tapas restaurant at which Spaniard Andrés made his D.C. debut in 1993, alighting at age 23 with his big personality, creative culinary skills, and already-considerable experience working in Michelin-starred restaurants. The eatery that launched an ongoing “small plates” craze soon had star siblings, as Andrés followed up Jaleo’s success with Café Atlantico and its exquisitely avant-garde restaurant-within-a-restaurant, the six-seat Minibar; Zaytinya, serving Mediterranean cuisine; and Oyamel, renowned for its authentic Mexican fare.
Over the years, critics far and wide have hailed José Andrés as “the boy wonder of culinary Washington” (The New York Times), “the hero of the Spanish revolution” (Food & Wine), “Best Chef – MidAtlantic” (the James Beard Foundation), and among its “2009 Men of the Year” (GQ Magazine). Surely his name and face are familiar, for the unstoppable Andrés is everywhere at once, being profiled by 60 Minutes in May 2010, appearing regularly on television shows such as “David Letterman” and “Top Chef,” going bi-coastal with the opening of The Bazaar by José Andrés, the only LA restaurant to receive a four-star review from the Los Angeles Times. In his spare time, Andrés hosts and produces the PBS series Made in Spain and writes cookbooks.
Because Andrés is credited with popularizing Spanish cuisine in America, he is often called “Spain’s unofficial ambassador to the United States.” DCists might be forgiven for getting a bit proprietary, preferring to think of Andrés as D.C.’s ambassador. Not only did Andrés and his restaurants help build the capital into a dining destination, but they also helped transform a once desolate part of downtown, by drawing diners to his hotspot eateries in the now-hopping Penn Quarter. He feeds countless hipsters with concoctions such as datiles con tocino, translated on the menu as “fried dates wrapped in bacon that you will want to eat every day.” But more importantly, Andrés feeds the city’s hungry through his volunteer work at D.C. Central Kitchen.
D.C. hearts José and the feeling seems to be mutual. So, for that and all of the aforementioned reasons, José Andrés gets Night + Day’s D.C. Urbie.
Check out our choice for the world’s foremost Urbanistas in other cities:
The Urbie Awards.
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