Taste N Shop: Spring Time Celebration

Supporting Woman owned business means creating space for patrons to hear the stories behind emerging bands. Taste N Shop, a celebration of entrepreneurship in partnership with the Enterprising Women of Color Program, puts you face to face with a leader in the food and beverage community each session. Featured culinary leaders will have their signature dishes and beverages available for attendees to taste while a fireside chat style workshop takes place.

This month, we'll celebrate the perspectives of Anne Choe (Lost Generation Brewing Company) and Akina Harada (Abunai), two culinary trailblazers based in the DMV. The menu will include poke and a beer tasing. Please bring your ID to verify your age. 21+.

Anne Choe, Lost Generation Brewing Company

Anne has been in food/beverage/hospitality since she was 16 but truly fell in love with the industry when she started to work for fine dining steakhouses. This passion evolved into a focus toward beer and wine so she shipped off to wine (and beer) country in Sonoma, CA to work for the girl and the fig under Sondra Bernstein, one of the first pioneers of women restauranteurs and farm to table restaurants. After a couple of years there, inspired by female entrepreneurs and leadership, she was given the opportunity to open a female owned and led craft cocktail bar from the ground up as GM. Once Jared and Anne finally felt ready to open their dream, they came back home to DC. While looking for a venue, she also worked for NRG for Bluejacket Brewery and then GM of Iron Gate.

Akina Harada , Abunai

I am the founder and CEO of Abunai and am a minority woman, part Japanese and Native Hawaiian, from Honolulu, Hawaii who moved to the east coast for college. Upon graduation, I started my own food truck called Abunai in 2016 serving Hawaiian and local dishes in Washington, DC. A year later, I opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant in DC and Philly. Thereafter, I ventured in commercial real estate, obtained my sports betting and medical cannabis manufacturing licenses under Abunai in DC, and currently opening my second restaurant DC location in NoMa.

Host or Publisher Enterprising Women of Color DMV Business Center