Culinary Backwater no more, Alexandria stars at Rammy Nominations

By Jordan Wright

Twenty years ago Old Town Alexandria had three Greek Restaurants, two Irish pubs, a few colonial food restaurants and not much else. The Greek spots were all lined up along King Street, west of Washington.

Photo by Roy Wright/Local Kicks BIG NIGHT FOR BASTILLE: Christophe and Michelle Poteaux of Bastille Restaurant in Old Town, finalists for the region's top Upscale Casual restaurant and region's top Pastry Chef, respectively.

Back then the whole town shut down by 10 pm and anyone seen later than that strolling down King Street, who wasn’t coming out of Murphy’s Irish Pub, was probably going to rob you…because everyone else was snug in their beds.

Those days are long gone and Alexandria today is as vibrant and dynamic as any cosmopolitan city. Last night at the RAMMY Awards in Washington DC the finalists featured seven chefs and/or their restaurants in Alexandria.

Those days are long gone and Alexandria today is as vibrant and dynamic as any cosmopolitan city. Last night at the RAMMY Awards in Washington DC the finalists featured seven chefs and/or their restaurants in Alexandria. Link to the whole article