Foodie and the Beast - Feb. 16, 2025

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.   On today’ show: ·        Bar Betsie wants to be your new rooftop home away from home cocktail bar in the Union Market District. It's prepping for a March opening. We’ll have tastes and talk of Bar Betsie with owners JP Sabatier, Ralph Brabham and Drew Porterfield, and bar managerCourtney Taylor;                                                                                                                                                                             ·        If you love oysters, the King Street Oyster Bar has loads of ‘em. Founder Rick Allison is in with news about growth, success and how he selects and brings in fresh oysters fromboth the West and East Coasts of the U.S. and Canada;                                                                                                                                                      ·        She was born Andra Johnson. We call her AJ, and she’s one of D.C.’s all-star bartenders and one of our best buddies . She’s the bar director and partner at Serenata in the UnionMarket District (at La Cosecha) and she’s in with news about the upcoming “CoquitoWars,” featuring  Puerto Rico’s distinctive coconut milk egg nog with a kick of rum;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ·        Stephanie Coppula is the director of marketing for the Bethesda Urban Partnership. She’s the one who puts together the annual Savor Bethesda Restaurant Week, one of the area’s best. She’s in with Reyna Guardado, co-owner of Guardado’s on Del RayAvenue, and they tell us all about it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.