The 20th anniversary of DC Central Kitchen’s Capital Food Fight, will take place at The Anthem on Thursday, November 7, 2024.
Just as DC Central Kitchen has always sought to fight hunger differently over the past 35 years, Capital Food Fight has always been a fundamentally different type of event. Over the past two decades, we have come together to celebrate our local restaurant community and the relentless, innovative work of DC Central Kitchen on the front lines of hunger and poverty. We are so grateful to the thousands of attendees, restaurants, and sponsors who have helped us raise more than $12 million through the years in support of our work. – Mike Curtin, CEO of DC Central Kitchen.
Local chefs expected to join a storied list of notable chefs featuring a spotlighted secret ingredient are:
- Michelin-star Chef & Co-Owner of Rooster & Owl and Ellie Bird Yuan Tang
- Chef Sarah Ravitz of Shilling Canning Company (a former chef at two Micheline-starred Minibar) Executive Chef Katarina Petonito of Eastern Point Collective restaurants (The Duck & The Peach, La Collina, Méli, and The Wells)
- The Colada Shop’s Executive Chef Jova Urriola
Their dishes will be judged by a panel of culinary icons,comprising :
- Emmy & 4x James Beard Award-Winning Chef and Cultural Anthropologist Andrew Zimmern
- Acclaimed Chef & Restaurateur Kwame Onwuachi
- Top Chef All-Star & Restaurateur Sara Bradley
- Mr. National Ryan Zimmerman
- Chef Ris Lacoste – the winner of the very first Capital Food Fight! Celebrity Chef and DC-based Restaurateur
All proceeds from Capital Food Fight, including donations, the raffle and silent auction, go to support DC Central Kitchen’s award-winning solutions to hunger and poverty in Washington, DC, from providing culinary job training to serving scratch-cooked school meals to delivering fresh fruits and vegetables at deep discounts to small corner stores across city.
Tickets to this year’s event are available here .
Courtesy – DC Central Kitchen
