Tom Sietsema
Food Critic at The Washington Post
Food critic for the Washington Post and James Beard award winner ("America's Best Food Cities")
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1 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Tom Sietsema
Our reporters and editors answer your questions. Join our live chats or ask a question in advance. Get advice: Carolyn Hax takes your questions about the strange train we call life. Find a dining suggestion: Chat with restaurant critic Tom Sietsema. Ask for cooking help: Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal are your guides to the kitchen. Chat with a columnist: Karen Tumulty discusses her columns, politics and more. Ask about the media: Erik Wemple discusses his columns and more.
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1 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Tom Sietsema
At a new Japanese market, shop all you want — but don’t miss the cafe (washingtonpost.com) At a new Japanese market, shop all you want — but don’t miss the cafe By Tom Sietsema 2025041015005200 One of the great advantages to writing about foreign food in Washington is access to people who know the subjects well, either because they're from the place you want to know more about or because they've been there so much they know the real from the faux, the good from the middling and worse. Since...
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Tom Sietsema
Our reporters and editors answer your questions. Join our live chats or ask a question in advance. Get advice: Carolyn Hax takes your questions about the strange train we call life. Find a dining suggestion: Chat with restaurant critic Tom Sietsema. Ask for cooking help: Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal are your guides to the kitchen. Chat with a columnist: Karen Tumulty discusses her columns, politics and more. Ask about the media: Erik Wemple discusses his columns and more.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Tom Sietsema
Stephen Starr isn’t sure where he saw pheasant under glass — an “I Love Lucy” episode? An old cooking show or movie? — but he insisted the dome-covered dish be on the menu of the recently reopened Occidental near the White House in Washington. “I didn’t know what it was” as a kid, says the prolific restaurateur, just that “fancy people” ate it.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Tom Sietsema
In decades of cooking, brothers Bryan and Michael Voltaggio have managed to open six restaurants together, this despite the fact that they’re based on opposite coasts: Bryan in Frederick, Maryland, and Michael in Los Angeles. Their latest project, Wye Oak Tavern, opened in December in the siblings’ hometown. Practice, practice, practice got them to what might be their best restaurant yet. Wye Oak Tavern, ensconced in the Visitation Hotel in Frederick, is definitely their most divine.
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Dining chat: Is it better for a restaurant’s bottom line if I skip an appetizer or a drink? And other questions, rants and raves from readers. https://t.co/IIQaeIQEeH
Dining chat: Is any meal worth thousands of dollars? Why do restaurants display TVs tuned to grim news? And other questions, rants and raves from diners. https://t.co/IIQaeIRc4f
If you like history, glam, and retro cooking, you’re going to love the new-old Occidental near the White House. Bravo, @StarrRestaurant . @TheOccidentalDC https://t.co/fygRsRBDTJ