🎙️ This Week on Foodie & The Beast: Stirring the Pot & Dishing It All Out
We’re serving up a stacked show this week — from policy shakeups to perfect pours and behind-the-scenes bites.
-Shawn Townsend, President & CEO of RAMW, breaks down the latest member survey — federal workforce cuts, rising costs, shifting traffic — and what it all means for DMV dining.
-Rachel Loew Lipman of Loew Vineyards joins us to pour award-winning wines and share the powerful, multi-generational story behind one of Maryland’s oldest wineries.
-Claire & Ari Wilder have transformed the old Booeymonger into La Bonne Vache, a cozy French bistro that feels like it’s always belonged on Prospect Street.
-Phil Greene returns! The cocktail historian and author is here with stories (and sours) from his latest book, Sours: A History of the World’s Most Storied Cocktail Style.
-And from Cordelia Fishbar, we chat with GM Sonya Znati and Executive Sous Chef Ramon Rivera about Clyde’s newest seafood-forward spot in Union Market.
Before we wrapped, we circled back to Shawn’s Initiative 82 data and got real-time takes from Ari, Claire, Sonya, and Ramon on what they’re seeing in the streets.
🎧 It’s a candid, flavor-packed episode you won’t want to miss. Listen here.
