What do you get a guy who had a Crimson Tide National Championship, a Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl win and welcomed twins into the world all in the same year? Famous Birthday Wishes! If you have a moment today, wish FamousDC co-founder Amos Snead a Happy Birthday! –The FDC Team

RGIII is on the mend and the EVIL Tom Brady has been defeated. We have less than 24 hours to get our talking points down and jump on the Baltimore Ravens Beltway Bandwagon. In your face Drew Magary. Get hyped up for the Baltimore Ravens Let’s learn a little more …

Natalie DiBlasio Kevin Cirilli Jill Bader Emily Bittner Michelle Gininger Nick Owens Devon Rodonets Sarah Rozier Charlotte Sellmyer Morgan Voss Brad Wilson Jenny Rogers Ashley Koerber Keith Chu

Top Chef Season 10 contestant and owner/Chef of DC’s own Belga Café lunches with us for his thoughts on the DC food scene, where he thinks it’s trending, and wonders if DC is ready for Michelin stars. Walking down the restaurant and bar lined Barrack’s Row neighborhood of Capitol Hill, I see many familiar haunts that serve cold beer, and I am sure, decent food. Yet I am comforted with each step I take as it brings me closer to Belga Café. Opened in 2004 by Chef Bart, this place has been consistently cranking out some seriously delicious Belgian-inspired food, providing amazing mussels, and some of the all-around best dishes (and beers) to be found in The District. However, it’s not Chef Bart’s entertaining and hilariously hard-to-understand-sometimes performance on Top Chef Season 10 that brings me here…ok, well, it sort of is. I mean, come on, who wouldn’t want to have lunch with this guy. He’s always happy, he had a crazy ass partner Josie in the last challenge that resulted in his elimination (tear), oh yeah, and there’s mussel’s on the half-shell with garlic butter and an ice cold Kasteel Rouge waiting for me on the inside. Onward we march in the name of food journalism!

The only way to make it through Monday’s activities without being sober. Print and post at your office viewing party for maximum fun.

Yes, we all love RGIII and hope he returns next year and turns in an Adrian Peterson comeback performance. But there is another team just up the road who could use your support this weekend against the evil New England Patriots: The Baltimore Ravens Before you turn your nose up …

Lennay Kekua spotted with Clint Eastwood

Feasting Famously with Allie Hagan The Suri’s Burn Book author dishes on eating/drinking in The District and what “Suri” would think of the DC food scene.  Blogging takes time. Blogging well takes talent and time. Blogging as the personality of a celebrity child commenting (judging) other celebrities, their children, and their choice in attire – and turning said blog into a book – takes time, talent, and an entire set of skills that many of us are completely void of. However, Allie Hagan, George Washington University alumna and seven-year Washington, DC resident mastered this art with the launch, and extreme success, of her blog Suri’s Burn Book, and subsequent printed book bearing the namesake. Suri’s Burn Book is, as stated on the website, “A study in Suri and the people who disappoint her.” Suri, in this case being Suri Cruise, the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. On the blog, Allie (writing as the fashion-forward, ever-judging “Suri”) despises her mother’s sense of fashion, loathes the children of Will and Jada Smith, and desperately wishes to save Penelope Kardashian-Disick from whatever doomed fate she is certain to fall prey to. But what of Allie Hagan the person? I chat with her about the Washington, DC food scene, get the scoop on some of her favorite restaurants, and sneak a few comments from “Suri,” in this FamousDC exclusive.

Happy Birthday to MSBC’s executive producer for The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd, contributor to the NBC News Political Unit and Georgetown professor. The man is busy but he can still celebrate. h/t Brad Dayspring   

Big shout out to Shane Harris and his piece on Mark Knoller, “the unofficial White House statistician” that just about every White House flack and hack has relied on to keep meticulous stats on the presidential ongoings. From stump speeches to the putting green, Knoller knows just how many appearances the last …

We will award 50 new Twitter followers to the first person who can spot Stip in this CNN screen grab.

Washington Redskins playoff-mania has reached a fever pitch inside the beltway as evidenced by Doug Thornell’s appearance on MSNBC today. We reached out to Mr. Thornell (A.K.A. DT3) for comment. His response: “That was for the millions and millions of fans in Redskins Nation who have been waiting 13 years …

Like all good blogs, media outlets, YouTube celebrities and list makers, we’ve jumped on the bandwagon and decided to take a look back at 2012. It was a big year for us; new look, new writers, more parties, more ducks, same great features, our always amazing readers and, of course, the best city to live and work in made these past 12 months an adventure. Here’s the FamousDC Top 20 in 2012.

Looking good at point 4:38.

Congratulations to Rebecca Gale, CQ Roll Call publicist turned Roll Call contributing editor turned author, on her book launch. Gale unveiled her first book, Trying, at a party Tuesday night at Science Club. The novel is a fictional piece on a young Washington, DC couple post-college graduation. Gale is incredibly excited about Trying’s debut, as she …