Longtime barbecue pop-up The Pit Stop will open in Cascades Marketplace next year. [The Burn]
DMV food writers (and me) dish on their favorite restaurants, trends and stories of the year. [BYT]
Budweiser’s parent company looks into non-alcoholic drinks with THC and CBD. [Ad Age]
Blend 111, set to open this spring in Vienna, will feature cuisine from Venezuela, France and Spain. [Tysons Reporter]
Finding chicken and waffles, and “the beauty in blackness and its global iterations,” in Paris. [Food & Wine]
Another round-up of 2018’s best cookbooks and books about food (including Season), this time from Helen Rosner, who takes a break from her flame-throwing persona to fawn over the written word. [The New Yorker]
A yogurt with “an increase in fat so flagrantly lush that you might as well call it fridge-temperature ice cream.” [The Goods]