Union Kitchen to Open Second Facility for D.C. Food Businesses

Union Kitchen also began a pilot distribution system about six weeks ago, so it can help its members more easily get on more store shelves and help retailers stock more local products without having to go through 30 different vendors individually. So far, Union Kitchen has partnered with Davenport Coffee Shop, which is part of  American University's student union, and Mrs. Green's Organic Market in Fairfax to deliver everything from soups to baked goods to kombucha. The new Ivy City facility will allow Union Kitchen to expand its distribution even further.Singer sees Union Kitchen's expansion is a reflection of the huge appetite for locally made food. He hopes that they'll be able to create a new "entrepreneurial middle class in the food system." Brooklyn, watch out.

WHEN I ASKED a friend to meet me for dinner at a food court near the Javits Convention Center, he acted as if I had suggested we fill a fanny pack with Hot Pockets and eat them on the back of a bus.After that,kitchen scissors wholesalers I sharpened my sales pitch. I told people that we would be inhaling ramen that is famous in Tokyo, and for good reason. I said that we would be drinking beers that were more unusual and delicious than what they were used to, and that for ballast we'd put down a layer of lamb sausage. I noted that we might sit at a tapas bar that in flavor and spirit'es as close to the Spanish ideal as any place in New York.Once I had convinced them, my guests tended to like everything about this food court, called Gotham West Market, except getting there. It occupies a block of 11th Avenue in the West 40s that lately feels less like Hell's Kitchen than Hell's Freezer.

But the inconvenient address is the reason this new eating adventure exists. It was built to lure renters to Gotham West, the 1,238-unit apartment'plex above and behind it. As any New York real estate agent can tell you,Household scissors suppliers even buyers who think of themselves as pioneers don't want to mill corn and slaughter hogs like Pa Ingalls. Gotham West's developer tried to answer that objection by bringing forth a troop of places to eat in a spot that had almost none.It is not the only effort to upgrade the food court, long the province of soft pizzas, sludgy stir-fries and swollen cinnamon rolls. A few blocks south, the sprawling Hudson Yards development will have a food hall the preferred term these days, as will Brookfield Place in Battery Park City. This spring, Crown Heights in Brooklyn will get Berg'n, a beer hall with food from stalwarts of the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg.