StartUp Kitchen

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at DC Dosa through (StartUp) Kitchen Confidential journals!

Check out photos from the opening night of DC Dosa last month!

Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Parker Photography.

thinklocalfirstdc:

Join us for the first StartUp Kitchen restaurant, DC Dosa, next Monday! 

It’s going to be yummy!

Be the first to get tickets to the DC Dosa StartUp Kitchen! 4 weeks, limited seats, and a chance to shape a local business!

Rebecca Gunter of operation:eatery, Kera Carpenter of Domku, StartUp Kitchen winner Priya Ammy, and Stacey Price of Think Local First DC.

View more photos of the StartUp Kitchen Launch Party, which was held during Eat Local First Week 2012, here! 

StartUp Kitchen finalists from left to right: Priya Ammu (DC Dosa), Julien Shapiro Worthwhile Meats & Provisions), and Bettina Stern (Chaya). 

Reserve your tickets for the Chopping Block Competition (July 18) and Launch Party (July 20), both being held at Domku during Eat Local First Week 2012!

And the StartUp Kitchen finalists are…

Thank you to those who applied! Submissions were reviewed and the three finalists competing for the chance to open their own pop-up restaurant at Domku during Eat Local First Week 2012 are…

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Finalist: Julien Shapiro

Food concept: Worthwhile Meats & Provisions

Food concept description: Julien Shapiro’s concept, Worthwhile Meats & Provisions, is a full-service specialty butcher store with prepared foods, bar and dining room offering classical French-themed bistronomique cuisine.  The fixed-price three-course menu would feature specialty cuts and charcuterie in addition to dishes created from the products of the whole animal butchery.  Julien is passionate about using his culinary repertoire to provide charcuterie, classical fabrications, and butcher’s cuts not readily available anywhere else in the city.  

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Finalist: Bettina Stern and Suzanne Simon

Food concept: Chaya

Food concept description: Bettina Stern and Suzanne Simon have developed Chaya, a “restaurant with a purpose — mostly plants, less meat, and superior taste and quality.”  The menu will focus on their house-made griddled corn tortillas filled with vegetables, legumes, and whole grains finished with various fresh sauces and toppings.  They hope to focus their efforts in the Shaw/Little Ethiopia and Foggy Bottom/West End markets.

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Finalist: Priya Ammu

Food concept: DC Dosa

Food concept description: Priya Ammu’s DC Dosa offers dosas, the popular Indian lentil and rice pancake, three ways—3 fillings and 3 chutneys—made to order and ready to go.  The fillings and chutneys vary seasonally and are vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free.  DC Dosa expects lunch and late night to be popular times for dosas among its urban, well-traveled, international, foodie clientele base.