Shift Drink

This week, tune out the family drama and turn up the awkward with three friends, live mics, and a healthy dose of sherry for some stimulating, turkey-stuffing background noise. We ...

This week, it’s ‘three’s company’ in the studio with the crew from LA’s pastry and sandwich darling, Konbi. Akira surfs the couch while co-owner Nick Montgomery and pastry chef Jen...

This week, cuisenaire cosmonaut Johnny Spero of Reverie daydreams of San Sebastian and butter burgers, connects his life’s valleys and peaks, and checks our table for gum over som...

This week Bad Saint’s matron badass and guiding light, Genevieve Villamora, styles out the studio with her grace and wisdom while Eddie and Mathew flounder over their fishing escap...

With Eddie once again in Napa and Mathew holding it down in the District, the two hosts mix it up this week and turn the conversation inward, intermittently taking turns in the “ho...

This week, escape artists Ben Wiley and Owen Thomson of D.C.’s tropical haven, Archipelago, join us for good vibes only. They do a deep-dive on tiki rum running in the district, To...

This week, it’s a local love fest as Chef Kevin Tien says goodbye to Himitsu (and hamachi crudo) and hello to his new concept, Emilie’s. Eddie gives up his seat at the table to for...

This week, we’re all aboard the Shochu choo choo with Monica Lee, beverage director of the Daikaya Group, and “Hennything is possible.” Monica rhapsodizes on the artisanal hard se...

This week Akira Akuto, master laminator and co-owner of LA’s Japanese sandwich darling, Konbi, drops by the studio for a chat and shat. Akira divulges on big dreams in tiny spaces,...

This week, homegrown barman Dante Datta of the upcoming Indian-inspired cocktail bar, Daru, joins us in the studio to slug down some emerald-colored Midori elixirs and talk Indian ...

This week, we ball high with water whisperer, Trevor Frye and resident artist, Nate Mann. We dive into the district’s viral geometry, lessons in failing, and making room for mental...

Navigating between three worlds as a Filipino-Egyptian in America, Malaka Gharib grew up struggling to grasp what it meant to live the American Dream. That is, until she wrote and ...