Sips And Suppers!
Saturday night, we went to Sips and Suppers at the Newseum!
Sips & Suppers is a two-day weekend event that supports and celebrates the work of DC Central Kitchen and Martha's Table's fight against homelessness and hunger in the nation's capital. We snapped the CEOs, Martha's Table's Patty Stonesifer and DCCK's Mike Curtin.
At the VIP reception, the host, chef Jose Andres, is with Gustafson Winery's Dan Gustafson and Kristen Khanna. VIP guests received cookbooks from celebrated chefs while tasting dishes of Kyirisan's pork belly, Bidwell's Hawaiian nachos and Doi Moi's pork doughnuts.
At the main event our favorite plates were China Chilcano's ceviche clasico, Declaration's bresaola cured tuna, Hill Country's brisket sliders, Sweet Lobby's macarons, and On Rye's balkan ice cream sandwiches. Here, Sips & Suppers' Jeremy Steimdecker and Jackie Nardelli, Michael Mina Restaurant's Adam Sobel and The Source chef Scott Drewno.
We took the "party-vator" (elevators with bars) up to the mixology floor and took sips of Tico's bourbon with corn and Greek yogurt puree, Catoctin Creek's banana-infused whiskey, and The Next Whiskey Bar's basil hayden bourbon with buttered popcorn. Here, Sue Ellen Lazarus, Winebow's Stacy Lee and Kay Mallon, who provided the Juve & Lamps chardonnay for the evening.
