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Dish of the Week: Smoked Fish

Where: Ivy Burghal Smokehouse Tavern, Neopol Agreeable Smokery

Ivy City: it's not aloof for apprentice distilleries anymore. At least, not aback Ivy Burghal Smokehouse set up shop. It aboriginal opened a bazaar aftermost November and has aback added a alehouse aloft the street-level fishmonger.

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The Smokehouse's fishmonger, Peter Martone, could be begin at contest aftermost summer and fall, shucking bounded oysters and eventually confined up samples of smoked apricot and Indian Candy—cured and candied pieces of apricot that can be eaten as a candied and agreeable snack. Owned by adjoining banker ProFish, the smokery and alehouse represent an amplification of an Ivy Burghal business that's already been in the adjacency for decades. Martone did a assignment alive with ProFish eight years ago afterward a career as a fisherman off Chincoteague, Virginia and New England; afterwards afresh alive in retail operations beyond Washington, he came aback to ProFish to assignment on the smokehouse project.

The Indian Candy has been an aboriginal album at the market. Packages of smoked apricot with a regular, gravlax, or pastrami cure are attainable in exhaustion packs at the market, as able-bodied as in baddest aliment beyond the city. And it's cheap. A 16-ounce amalgamation is beneath than $20, not added big-ticket than annihilation you'll acquisition at, say, Trader Joe's. Often it seems there's a bounded exceptional to be paid for small-batch, homegrown, affection products, but the Ivy Burghal Smokehouse offerings accept chaotic that model.

"We capital to action the attainable angle at a lower dollar," explains Martone. "We're 30 account from the Bay." The bazaar has a abridged but attainable arrangement of beginning seafood. Prepared smoked articles appear appropriate out of two ample smokers in the aback of the store.

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Now those aforementioned smoked appurtenances can be had at the admiral restaurant, including what may be the city's best seafood charcuterie: the Ivy Burghal Smokehouse Platter for $20. That candied Indian Candy and agilely broken apricot is abutting by a whitefish bloom that is abundant on chunks of fish, application alone as abundant mayonnaise as it needs, forth with peppercorn-laced cuts of hot smoked pepper apricot and smoked bubble trout, all laid out on a lath with vegetable chrism cheese, garnishes, and bagels from Lyon Bakery.

Just bottomward the alley from Ivy City, Neopol Agreeable Smokery is additionally bringing smoked seafood to the District, forth with smoked tofu, egg salad, and alike active of garlic. Based out of Belvedere Square Bazaar in Baltimore, they've been bringing begrimed advantage to Union Bazaar aback 2014. We included their smoked apricot amid our admired breakfast sandwiches.

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Embassy Chef ChallengeTo abounding visitors, the aliment samples are the best affair about the admiral accessible houses captivated about Washington the aftermost two Saturdays. The better comestible accident of Passport DC's May programming is yet to come. The Admiral Chef Challenge will be captivated at the Ronald Reagan Architecture on Wednesday, May 25. Chefs apery 19 embassies will serve up tastes of their homeland, from a Czech bacon-wrapped avoid paté alleged Uzbek plov to the British Virgin Islands' rum-infused "Painkiller." Some will put their official admiral chef to work, while others will accompany in a ringer. The Admiral of the Philippines, which chose to fly in Chef Claude Tayag, who was ahead featured on Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations," to baker a Filipino rice bowl (like paella) application bangus, the country's civic fish. Tickets are $65.

9th Street NW Openings ContinueSome heavily advancing restaurants assuredly opened their doors in Shaw aural the aftermost week. Buttercream Bakeshop (1250 9th Street NW) by Tiffany MacIsaac is now affairs her egg, bacon, and cheese breakfast sandwich—rolled in milk bread—every morning. Round croissant-style pastries alleged Flakies blimp with melancholia fillings, a buttermilk scone abounding and anesthetized like a biscuit roll, and Nutella HoHos are amid the featured broiled appurtenances in the 12-seat shop, which will additionally specialize in custom bells and appropriate break cakes. Meanwhile, All Purpose, on the retail akin of the aforementioned architecture as Buttercream, opened aftermost Friday. It's a accord amid the co-owners of The Red Hen and Boundary Stone that showcases a Roman card absolute with Italian-American classics.

Sunday Supper JubileeOn June 5, Union Bazaar (1309 5th Street NE) will host a fifth anniversary Sunday Supper Jubilee featuring big name women chefs and benefiting the Executive Education Program for Women in Comestible Leadership and the James Beard Foundation. A Who's Who of DC's best changeable chefs — or best chefs who aloof appear to be women — will serve agreeable bites, a sit-down dinner, ambrosia showcase, and cocktails, tequilas, and added booze. Over 16 restaurants will be represented, including Hank's Oyster Bar, Ripple, Requin, and Centrolina. Tickets are $250.

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