Beer Garden in DC? Beer Garden in DC!

Back in March, the Post had a sweet blog post about a new beer garden opening in the H st. corridor. Looking at pictures here, it looks pretty sweet.

Well Biergarten Haus is opening May 7th to the public and you can book parties there now.

According to the description, all German beers on tap served in giant German beer towers, and two dozen more in bottles selected by the same beer guy that did the all Belgian beers at Brasserie Beck.

Biergarten Haus also serves your typical German food and is open just in time for the world cup to be shown on multiple flat screen TVs.

The owners of Biergarten Haus also own Russian Capitals' favorite, Russia House.

Top Chef DC

Not sure if you know by now, but last month, it was confirmed that the next top chef would be in DC. Well they started filming now. I think this is pretty cool and it would be better if I got to sneak into one of their "restaurant wars" episodes. Especially if I got to eat good food and meet Padma and Gail Simmons. Well I'll leave Padma to Web and his Indian Girl Fetish.

From Wiki:

The show will bring 17 contestants, similar to prior seasons, but this time one of the contestants will be a Top Chef "veteran", who participated in one of the prior editions (and didn't win). It has been also reported that classic episodes such as Restaurant Wars and Wedding Wars will return. The Finale is planned to happen in Montreal, Canada. It will bring five chefs and will be comprised of three episodes (instead of two).

DC is an up and coming restaurant city but has plenty of catching up compared to NY and SF. But the fact that Top Chef is in DC gives us a promising future for more awesome restaurants.

Well if you want to stalk where they are, here's a google map of where they're staying and where they have been to so far. (Been there's everywhere!)

Also some other DC restaurant links to waste some more time.

Top 100 Restaurants

Upcoming Ray's Restuarants