BrightestYoungThings: Weekly Food News Round Up (Whoopee Pies and Thriller)

It's Vegan Week, did you check out our list of places to eat meat free? I highly recommend the comments, lots of good recommendations.
It's also coming up on Halloween. We have THE MOST comprehensive guide of what to eat and drink...especially drink.
ALSO-WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK DURING YOUR RALLYING MANIA on Saturday/Sunday in our "Sane Person's Guide to DC"
And just for you...This Friday, Whoops! Bakeshop os setting up a Whoopee Pie Pop-Up Shop on H Street...and it'll be a Thriller flash mob....and the flavors will be PYT pumpkin and Billie Jean chocolate peanut butter. I mean, c'mon! So perfect.

The local round up!

Red Derby's roof deck opens. Have you been?
Rogue States is coming to 14th and U.
District Taco will be opening on Arlington soon. (hf Tim Carman at the City Paper)
Happy anniversary Birch & Barley and Churchkey!
Want more beer? Rustico opens a Ballston location.
Wegman's opens in PG County. Yuppie housewives of DC plan on getting a Zip Car and hussling out there.
So a place called "International House of Pong" is opening in Georgetown. It'll feature food, drink and ping-pong... I'ma give this one to Comet first.
Pasties (pass-tees) are new and hot in the D.C. You can get these savory Cornish pies at Pure Pasty in Vienna, and soon to be served out of a food truck by the same company.
The best new brunch in town is Masa 14. For $35 you get unlimited mimosas and unlimited servings of a nice selection of dishes. One week into service and I'm still hearing stomach groans via Twitter.
A very enthusiastic Fritz Hahn told me about Gina Chersevani's latest act of cocktail sorcery. Called the Sav U'R Cereal, this drink is all the best parts of a bowl of sugary cereal, with all the best parts of Daddy's liquor cabinet. Milk, bourbon and a Crunch Berry? WTF??? (Photo Fritz Hahn)

And the round up!

The Huffington Post says "Dirt" will be a dining trend for 2011. Screw you HuffPo and your link-bait photo galleries. Oooh, pretzels!
In South Korea, you're only allowed to eat two octopus heads a day.
Rachael Ray on Twitter: "I am going to try to get good at it. There must be a term for a good tweeter. I don't know, but I'm going to try to make that sucker chirp."
You know how in the future you'll be able to pay for things for your cell phone? Well, Starbucks is hoping it'll be a Venti Soy Latte with two shots, extra hot.

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