“I love Yelp,” is what an actual restaurant owner actually said. [Washington City Paper]
Winter Restaurant Week is scheduled for Jan. 14-20, and here’s how to make the most of the deals. [RAMW]
A Taste of Urbanspace, the new food hall taking over Isabella Eatery in Tysons Galleria, is now open. [Eater]
Find Hawaiian food, soul food and more at the food hall inside Chefscape. [The Burn]
From sweet potato-sage to gingerbread, all the holiday beer from Virginia breweries. [Virginia is for Lovers]
Another new voice in California food writing: Soleil Ho, most recently of the podcast Racist Sandwich, is the new restaurant critic at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her hire will lead “the next era of criticism, a conversation that will confront questions of ethics and social justice.” [San Francisco Chronicle]