Radio & Podcast

Multiple ways to be in the know about all the deliciousness happening locally, nationally, and internationally. Tune in to the food variety show, Foodie & The Beast, with David & Nycci Nellis on Federal News Network, or take a deep dive with Nycci on Industry Night on Real Fun DC.

FOODIE & THE BEAST

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Foodie & The Beast Turns 18: Your Rainy Day Schedule
Foodie & The Beast officially turned 18 yesterday, the big celebration show is coming October 31, and today’s show was a great one, with a lineup of D.C. chefs, nonprofits, motorsport fans and pop-ups to put on your calendar.-Primrose in Brookland: A Neighborhood Brasserie Hits Year Nine: There’s an old saying, “Local boy makes good,” and we had two of ’em on the show. Good friend Sebastian Zutant, a veteran D.C. sommelier, winemaker and restaurant owner, brought Chef Patrick Benton (an Annapolis native who can really cook, baby) to talk Primrose, its 9-year evolution and what makes it the perfect neighborhood brasserie.-Sunflower Bakery: Job Training for Young Adults and Teens: Sunflower Bakery job trains young adults and teens with learning differences through pre-employment exposure and workforce development in pastry arts, culinary arts and hospitality. Ellen Shimberg, Sunflower’s Director of Development, joined us with the incredible details and how you can help. Yes ... YOU!-DC Motorsport Community: F1 Watch Parties and the October 25 Rooftop Takeover: Nikki Lang has a need for speed, and her DC Motorsport Community (DCMC) hosts F1 watch parties, Grand Prix experiences, automotive showcases and VIP events. Mark October 25 for the MOTORSPORT TAKEOVER AT CITY RIDGE, a rooftop party for the Austin F1 Grand Prix.-KYOJIN × Casa Kantuta: A Bolivian and Japanese Pop-Up for Hispanic Heritage Month: Carla Sanchez, aka Spicy Candy and Casa Kantuta, is closing out Hispanic Heritage Month with KYOJIN × Casa Kantuta, a cross-cultural celebration of Bolivian and Japanese influences through food and drink. It was inspired by Carla’s childhood friendship with a girl of Japanese descent, and it celebrates heritage, cultural exchange and the connections that shape us.-Shia + AJ Johnson + Red Thread: A Korean and Jamaican-Inspired Cocktail Pop-Up: And tonight, a collab for the ages. Shia, the modern Korean fine dining restaurant in Washington, D.C. focused on sustainability and innovation, teams up with AJ Johnson and Red Thread for a Korean- and Jamaican-inspired cocktail experience. Geoffrey Chang, Shia’s beverage director, and AJ Johnson stopped by to make the party happen.Eighteen years in, the celebration show is October 31. Find more D.C. food, drink and events on The List’s calendar of events.Listen in here.
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INDUSTRY NIGHT

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Industry Night: A Deep Dive with NRG's Greg Engert & Aged Fish with Chef Chico Dator
Greg Engert is the Washington DC restaurant insider who made this city care about beer, and he is the first person to tell you the math has changed. Happy hour is dead, the double turn is gone, and the generation walking through the door wants something his whole career was not built for. So we sat down at Modan in Tysons and got into what he is actually doing about it.Greg Engert has been Beer Director and Managing Partner at Neighborhood Restaurant Group since 2006, which means he has had a front row seat to every swing of the DC dining scene for twenty years. Church Key. Bluejacket. Rustico. Josephine. Iron Gate. Snallygaster, now the biggest beer festival on the East Coast. In this chef interview podcast episode of Industry Night, Nycci Nellis gets him talking about the parts nobody puts in a press release: what it costs to keep a seventeen year old restaurant relevant, why NRG is closing a play cafe that did not pencil out, and why he reads every single guest review across the entire group every day.He is candid about the generational shift too. Younger drinkers are not abstaining more than Gen X did, they are just drinking less per visit, and he points at inflation and healthcare costs before he points at wellness culture. His answer is to stop treating cheap drinks as a two hour window and start building low price points into the menu all day long.Then Nycci pulls Chef Chico Dator out of the Modan kitchen. He came up through Nobu in Lanai, Malibu and Kuala Lumpur before landing in DC, and he now runs the only dry aging fish program in the region. He will not call it aging. Listen for why, here, and Watch the full episode here.
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