Blogs and Recipes: A Round-Up for 9/2

• Go your own way: underground restaurants, underground drinking establishments popping up all over the place. While I’ve never been to an underground restaurant, I will say that I had some of the best drinks of my life at the “speakeasy” mentioned in the metrocurean article. [NYT, metrocurean]
• Celebrity chef invasion of DC continues, now with more Gordon Ramsay! [DCist]
• New fronts on the DC cupcake wars: Hello, Cupcake opened in Dupont Circle (right across the street from your editors office, expect a review soon), and opening with less media attention, Lavender Moon of Alexandria. [DCist, Houndstooth Gourmet]
• This week in free events: music at Eastern Market and Marilyn Monroe. [Going Out Gurus]

Eat these things this week:

• Homemade Belizean pepper sauce. [Rice and Beans]
• Tuscan pasta with Canellini beans. [the arugula files]
• Pressed chicken with yellow squash and tomatoes. [The Bitten Word]