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Food Scene Los AngelesLA's Culinary Renaissance: From Michelin Stars to Communal Bazaars, Top Chefs Serve Up Diverse Delights!Food Scene Los Angeles Los Angeles has emerged as a culinary powerhouse in 2025, with the restaurant scene experiencing an extraordinary renaissance that blends high-end fine dining with scrappy, innovative concepts. The city tracked over 350 restaurant openings this year, a staggering testament to its evolving food culture.The standout trend reshaping LA dining is the rise of chef-driven concepts celebrating global cuisines with California sensibility. Dominique Crenn's Monsieur Dior on Rodeo Drive brings Michelin-starred prestige to the luxury shopping district, while David Chang's Super Peach in Century City showcases his masterful American-Asian fusion. Meanwhile, Casa Dani and...
2025-11-2903 min
In the Weeds Podcast with Chef Spike MendelsohnChef Rose Previte: No White Plates, No Rules, All HeartRestaurateur, chef, and experience-architect Rose Previte doesn’t just run restaurants—she builds worlds. The creative force behind Compass Rose, Maydān, and the new Maydān Market in LA joins Spike to talk about crafting spaces that connect people through fire, flavor, and story.From convincing Georgian ambassadors she wasn’t a spy to fighting neighborhood boards for her liquor license, Rose shares how she turned her Sicilian-Lebanese heritage and global travels into one of DC’s most distinctive culinary voices. This episode dives into identity, hospitality, and the art of creating places that feel like home—fille...
2025-11-111h 31Food Scene Los AngelesLA's Sizzling Culinary Scene: Insider Secrets, Bold Flavors, and the Hottest Tables in Town!Food Scene Los Angeles Los Angeles, a city famed for reinvention, is scorching the culinary map in 2025 with audacious new flavors, star-studded kitchens, and electric dining rooms that reflect the city’s dazzling, multicultural spirit. As the city’s bustling neighborhoods welcome a fresh crop of trailblazing restaurants, ambitious chefs are redefining what it means to eat out in the City of Angels.The aroma of charcoal and saffron leads the way at Berenjak, the Arts District outpost of London’s Persian sensation. Inside the Soho Warehouse, chef Kian Samyani plates up coal-fired kebabs alongside pillowy taftoo...
2025-11-0103 min
Food Scene Washington D.C.Juicy Secrets: D.C.s Underground Culinary Scene Exposed!Food Scene Washington D.C. **A Capital Feast: Unveiling Washington D.C.'s Thriving Culinary Scene**Washington D.C., long celebrated for its monuments and politics, now stands as a gastronomic powerhouse where culinary creativity takes center stage. As bustling as its iconic corridors of power, the city's restaurant scene thrives on dynamic new openings and innovative concepts that are redefining dining experiences.Take a step into Larder's eco-conscious embrace, where chef Nicholas Stefanelli delights guests with Italian-inspired dishes. This latest venture offers something the Wall Street crowd can't resist—a vibrant setting with lo...
2025-03-1103 min
Add Passion and StirRose Previte and Louis Caldera on Diversity as StrengthIn an episode originally aired in 2018, restaurateur, entrepreneur and author Rose Previte and former Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera talk about leadership, public service, and how diversity is our greatest strength. “As long as we’re true to our principles of equality, and people can develop their talents through education and contribute something, then that’s what we need to do,” says Caldera. Previte’s three DC-area restaurants (Compass Rose, Michelin-starred Maydān, and Kirby Club) are a celebration of diversity inspired by her upbringing with a Lebanese mother and Sicilian father and her own extensive travels. “S...
2025-03-0549 min
The Small Nation Podcast96 | Culinary Entrepreneurship | The Small Nation Podcast Featuring Rose PreviteThis is episode 96 of The Small Nation Podcast! This podcast is created for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, economic development, and small town success. Many people have a dream to open their own restaurant, but there are often many hurdles along the path to do so. On this episode, we speak to Michelin Star winning restaurateur, culinary entrepreneur, and cookbook author Rose Previte about her entrepreneurial journey and how she continues to grow and expand her businesses!
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2024-12-1953 min
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters791: Fall Cookbook RoundupIt’s our favorite time of year – Fall Cookbook season! We’re joined by baker Samantha Seneviratne, author of Bake Smart, who tells us about her favorite baking techniques, including a butter trick that creates the creamy texture in her Gooey Cranberry Crumb Cake. Then, chef and content creator Jon Kung talks about his debut cookbook, Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen. He tells us about his cultural identity as a “third-culture kid,” how he experienced multiple cultures at once while growing up, and how he applies that experience to his fusion cooking. He shares a recipe for rei...
2024-11-2948 min
un-CAPP it!Global Connections: Fostering Cultural UnderstandingKennedy and Carmen take a step back from American politics to discuss the role of international culture and education in shaping beliefs and values. Today’s guest, Rose Previte, offers her perspective as an ONU alumna, world traveler, and entrepreneur who began her travels with a study abroad experience at Northern. Rose and the Polar Bear POV guest, Selah Schertz offer similar messages of the importance of travel and its impacts on the rest of their lives.
2024-04-0131 min
Good FoodBlack Appalachian cooks, Maydan, shochuCrystal Wilkinson recounts stories and recipes from five generations of Black Appalachian cooks. Poised to open a restaurant complex in Los Angeles, Rose Previte traveled spice trade routes to see how cooking traditions informed each other. Food writer Bill Esparza shows us where to find Dominican food. Sommelier Courtney Kaplan explains shochu, Japan's indigenous distilled spirit. At the farmer's market, chef Daniel Matho shops for butternut squash while Lettie Garcia talks grapefruit.
2024-03-0859 min
Industry Night with Nycci NellisA Rose By Any Other NameHello again and welcome to another Industry Night. For the month of December I have had the pleasure of taping this show in WREN restaurant in the Watermark Hotel. This area is the new shiny & bright Capital One Center. An entire town center has been built up on the other side of the highway from what you traditionally think of Tysons. Joining me today is Tara McNamara the Chief Experience Officer AND she was the first person I met here at the Watermark — a little over 2+ years ago when the property opened — and she can really talk about the hotel’s growt...
2024-02-0155 min
Industry Night with Nycci NellisA Rose By Any Other NameHello again and welcome to another Industry Night. For the month of December I have had the pleasure of taping this show in WREN restaurant in the Watermark Hotel. This area is the new shiny & bright Capital One Center. An entire town center has been built up on the other side of the highway from what you traditionally think of Tysons. Joining me today is Tara McNamara the Chief Experience Officer AND she was the first person I met here at the Watermark — a little over 2+ years ago when the property opened — and she can really talk about the hotel’s growt...
2024-02-0155 min
NPR's Book of the DayRose Previte, of Michelin star restaurant Maydān, releases her debut cookbookToday's episode takes us inside the kitchen of Washington, D.C. Michelin-star restaurant Maydān. There, owner Rose Previte walks NPR's Asma Khalid through several recipes in her new cookbook, Maydān, which focuses on family dishes from a diverse array of influences. Previte and Khalid get to talking about how growing up in a Lebanese-Italian home in a small Ohio town — and later traveling across Russia and the Middle East with her husband, former NPR host David Greene — shaped her understanding of breaking bread across cultures.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Pr...
2023-12-1412 min
The Splendid Table791: Fall Cookbook RoundupIt’s our favorite time of year – Fall Cookbook season! We’re joined by baker Samantha Seneviratne, author of Bake Smart, who tells us about her favorite baking techniques, including a butter trick that creates the creamy texture in her Gooey Cranberry Crumb Cake. Then, chef and content creator Jon Kung talks about his debut cookbook, Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen. He tells us about his cultural identity as a “third-culture kid,” how he experienced multiple cultures at once while growing up, and how he applies that experience to his fusion cooking. He shares a recipe for reimagined...
2023-11-0352 min
Designated Drinker ShowPT 2 :: Rose Previte :: Co-Founder :: Go There WineEver heard of chacha? Not the ballroom dance, but the potent Georgian grape brandy that will knock your socks off! It’s clear, strong, and the secret ingredient in this week’s amazing cocktail. And it’s one of the many distinctive flavors Rose Previte has discovered on her travels. In part two of our chat with the fearless adventurer and grape guru of Go There Wines we learn more about how Rose is all about exploring grapes and regions that you probably didn't even know existed, teaming up with winemakers who aren't afraid to take risks and shake things...
2023-04-0623 minDesignated Drinker ShowPT 2 :: Rose Previte :: Co-Founder :: Go There WineEver heard of chacha? Not the ballroom dance, but the potent Georgian grape brandy that will knock your socks off! It’s clear, strong, and the secret ingredient in this week’s amazing cocktail. And it’s one of the many distinctive flavors Rose Previte has discovered on her travels. In part two of our chat with the fearless adventurer and grape guru of Go There Wines we learn more about how Rose is all about exploring grapes and regions that you probably didn't even know existed, teaming up with winemakers who aren't afraid to take risks and shake things...
2023-04-0623 minDesignated Drinker ShowPT 1 :: Rose Previte :: Co-Founder :: Go There WineIt's time to raise a glass to National Women in Wine Day! And who better to celebrate with than Rose Previte, the badass DC restaurateur and wine disruptor extraordinaire! With Go There Wines, Rose is bringing the heat to the global wine industry by showcasing trailblazing wines made by underrepresented winemakers from places like Lebanon, Georgia, and South Africa. Why? Because it would be a tragedy if we all missed out on these amazing wines! I mean, can you imagine a world without that perfect glass of vino? Yeah, me neither. So let's cheers to Rose and all the...
2023-03-3025 minDesignated Drinker ShowPT 1 :: Rose Previte :: Co-Founder :: Go There WineIt's time to raise a glass to National Women in Wine Day! And who better to celebrate with than Rose Previte, the badass DC restaurateur and wine disruptor extraordinaire! With Go There Wines, Rose is bringing the heat to the global wine industry by showcasing trailblazing wines made by underrepresented winemakers from places like Lebanon, Georgia, and South Africa. Why? Because it would be a tragedy if we all missed out on these amazing wines! I mean, can you imagine a world without that perfect glass of vino? Yeah, me neither. So let's cheers to Rose and all the...
2023-03-3025 min
BelongingsThe Evolving Tastes of Home with Rose Previte & Mazen In this second episode of Belongings, Lina Sergie Attar sits down with restauranteur Rose Previte to talk about home, food, and hope. Rose takes listeners on a journey down memory lane and revisits her grandmother's home just in time for morning breakfast. Lina then chats with Mazen from Istanbul who shares how, through life's twists and turns, he was able to learn who he is and what he wants for his future.
2022-11-251h 01
Speaking BroadlyBringing the World Closer Together: Rose PreviteEffusive, funny, game-changing, Rose Previte is an award-winning restaurateur who has expanded our knowledge of international street food at Compass Rose as well as with Caucasian, North African, and Middle Eastern dishes at Maydan. She shares details of her highly anticipated new projects including Go There Wines, which highlights the wines of lesser-known wine-making regions including one of her favorite places on earth, Georgia:"When Russia cut off importing wines from Georgia, as punishment for a war in 2006, it really hurt the economy. But I was like, 'I'm gonna flip this on its head.' I'm going...
2022-11-1539 min
What The Actual Fork PodcastEP112: Pronouns, Gender Identity, and Eating Disorder RecoveryJames Rose (they/she) is a non-binary New York City-based actor, Health At Every Size personal trainer, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and the co-host of the Full Soul Nutrition Podcast. This episode was first released during Transgender Awarenss Week in 2020 and James graciously shares their experience exploring their gender identity in addition to how that has impacted their relationship with food and body. In this episode we talk all about James' eating disorder experience, gender identity exploration, and body dysmorphia vs body dysphoria. This episode is one of our most important EVER as we talk about things we haven't in...
2022-05-271h 07
The Trip That Changed MeLebanon & Beyond with Rose Previte: sharing culture through food, bringing flavors back home, and international culinary adventuresChef and restaurateur Rose Previte was raised in a food-loving, Sicilian-Lebanese family in Ohio, and grew up working for her mother’s Middle Eastern catering business. Her own first endeavor, Compass Rose, is a restaurant inspired by the extensive travel she did while living in Russia with her husband, who was posted there as a correspondent for NPR. Since then, Rose has opened a second critically acclaimed restaurant in DC called Maydan which earned a Michelin star in 2019. In this episode, Rose and Esme discuss the ways that identity and culture are expressed through our cuisines, the amazi...
2021-12-3049 min
The Trip That Changed MeLebanon & Beyond with Rose Previte: sharing culture through food, bringing flavors back home, and international culinary adventuresChef and restaurateur Rose Previte was raised in a food-loving, Sicilian-Lebanese family in Ohio, and grew up working for her mother’s Middle Eastern catering business. Her own first endeavor, Compass Rose, is a restaurant inspired by the extensive travel she did while living in Russia with her husband, who was posted there as a correspondent for NPR. Since then, Rose has opened a second critically acclaimed restaurant in DC called Maydan which earned a Michelin star in 2019. In this episode, Rose and Esme discuss the ways that identity and culture are expressed through our cuisines, the amazi...
2021-12-3049 minThe Trip That Changed MeLebanon & Beyond with Rose Previte: sharing culture through food, bringing flavors back home, and international culinary adventuresChef and restaurateur Rose Previte was raised in a food-loving, Sicilian-Lebanese family in Ohio, and grew up working for her mother’s Middle Eastern catering business. Her own first endeavor, Compass Rose, is a restaurant inspired by the extensive travel she did while living in Russia with her husband, who was posted there as a correspondent for NPR. Since then, Rose has opened a second critically acclaimed restaurant in DC called Maydan which earned a Michelin star in 2019. In this episode, Rose and Esme discuss the ways that identity and culture are expressed through our cuisines, the amazi...
2021-12-3049 min
What The Actual Fork PodcastEP42: Pronouns, Gender Identity, and RecoveryThis week on the podcast we have James Rose. James (they/them) is a non-binary NYC-based actor, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and co-host of the Full Soul Nutrition Podcast. They write about gender, eating disorder recovery, sex, their feelings, & their exes on Instagram, where they hope to leave the internet a little bit better than they found it! In this episode, we discuss fighting for food freedom, gender identity, and inclusive medical care. We basically cycled through phases of deep listening and laughing our butts off throughout this entire episode! James is a captivating speaker and has such important things...
2020-11-201h 04
Startups of LondonHow Tech Companies Survive TheC19 Crisis [Documentary]As the lockdown commenced, we began interviewing founders to understand how they are coping with the crisis brought on by the Covid-19 Global Pandemic. A travel startup experiences the intensity of the crisis very differently than a startup focused on digital health services, but still, there are strong themes common to how startups survive crises. This documentary brings together 7 interviews we have conducted with founders and thought leaders in the London Startup Ecosystem. Philip Mundy, Pando HealthMichael Krayenhoff, Inner CircleTom Previte, Launch 22Jacob Wedderburn, StasherAnthony Rose, SeedlegalsAndrew...
2020-06-1749 min
Wake Up Call (The Reboot)30. #FEMSQUIRE Series: NJ Divorce Lawyer Jeralyn "J. Law" Lawrence, Esq.NJ Divorce Lawyer Jeralyn Lawrence inherited an entire family law department practically right out of law school. Rather than let fear hold her back, Jeralyn rose to the occasion and built a thriving family department from scratch at a large firm while she was still learning her way around a courtroom. Almost 20 years later, Jeralyn has left big law to build her own law firm. Jeralyn talks about her career trajectory beginning with her young aspirations to be a lawyer, how she was instrumental in changing the evolving alimony laws in New Jersey, what she hopes to change in the...
2020-03-0243 min
The HustleEpisode 208 - Franke Previte of Franke and the Knockouts/Beloved 80s Movie Soundtrack FameOscar-winner Franke Previte basically won the lottery in 1987. He first rose to mild fame fronting the early 80s melodic rock band Franke and the Knockouts where he recorded three great albums and scored three top 40 hits you may remember like "Sweetheart" and "You're My Girl." While their "Foreginer by way of Jersey" sound was solid, it wasn't taking over the world. And then everything changed. Franke was asked to contribute a couple songs to a movie called Dirty Dancing (he worried it was a porn) a friend was involved with. He wrote and recorded "(I've Had) The Time of...
2019-05-011h 18
Why Food?Episode 72: Rose Previte: From Public Policy to Award Winning RestaurantsPlease join us in welcoming restaurateur Rose Previte to the studio! Rose spent her childhood helping her mother run her Middle Eastern catering business and restaurant. She then later spent over a decade working in bars and restaurants while getting a master's degree in Public Policy from George Mason University. After meeting her husband and traveling around the world to 30 countries, her time abroad inspired her to open award-winning restaurant Compass Rose in 2014 and then her second restaurant, Maydan, which was conceived and designed over a three-week journey through Morroco, Tunisia, Turkey, Georgia and Lebanon.
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2019-02-2151 min
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast TravelerThe Chefs Transforming the Washington D.C. Food SceneRecorded in front of a live audience at the Eaton Hotel—in conjunction with this month’s Women Who Travel meetup—we were joined by Jamie Leeds, chef and owner of Hank’s Oyster Bar (and Pasta Bar and Cocktail Bar); Rose Previte, owner of Compass Rose and one of Bon Appetit's best new restaurants, Maydan ; and Amy Brandwein, chef and owner of Centrolina.
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2019-01-2323 min
THE DOLCEZZA SHERBERT EXPERIENCERose Previte: world traveler, space creator and maker of damn delicious foodThis week on The Dolcezza Sherbert Experience, Robb & Violeta are joined by Rose Previte, owner of award winning restaurants Compass Rose and Maydan in Washington DC, to talk about street food as the big equalizer, fighting prejudices in the restaurant industry and following your vision.
2018-09-2100 minAdd Passion and StirCome Together: Uniting People Through Food And OpportunityHow do we unite different cultures in the midst of a polarizing political climate? In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, George Washington University professor of leadership Louis Caldera and Rose Previte, owner of Compass Rose and Maydān in Washington DC, talk about culture, leadership and the potential for diversity to drive positive change in the US. Both guests believe diversity is our greatest strength. “As long as we’re true to our principles of equality, and people can develop their talents through education and contribute something, then that’s what we need to do,” says Caldera, the son o...
2018-08-2958 minAdd Passion and StirCome Together: Uniting People Through Food And OpportunityHow do we unite different cultures in the midst of a polarizing political climate? In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, George Washington University professor of leadership Louis Caldera and Rose Previte, owner of Compass Rose and Maydān in Washington DC, talk about culture, leadership and the potential for diversity to drive positive change in the US. Both guests believe diversity is our greatest strength. “As long as we’re true to our principles of equality, and people can develop their talents through education and contribute something, then that’s what we need to do,” says Caldera, the son o...
2018-04-2558 min
Paris DJs PodcastParis DJs Soundsystem presents the melody-driven sound of Marco BeneventoParis DJs Soundsystem presents the melody-driven sound of Marco Benvento (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2012-11-15 A new generation of keyboard players rose in the 90s starting with, of course, John Medeski (from Medeski, Martin and Wood), the undisputed king, the Jimi Hendrix of keyboards, but also Robert Walter (from The Greyboy Allstars), Brian Haas (from Jacob Fred Jazz Oddyssey), Page McConnell (from Phish), or Kyle Hollingsworth (from The String Cheese Incident)… Then came the 2000s with Marco Benevento, one half of...
2012-11-1545 min