Mangia DC Food Tours

12/10/2025

Thanks for the warm vibes Yelp DC! couldn’t be more grateful 🙂

07/27/2025

Thank you for competing with is and having a blast American Marketing Association!

04/10/2025

so proud of our partner Dog Tag Bakery
Keep up the great work!

We’re honored to be featured by Nasdaq as a model for resilience and renewed purpose and a Nasdaq Foundation Quarterly Grant recipient. 💼✨

We’re proud to empower veterans, military spouses, and caregivers with the tools, education, and community to forge their next chapter. This article highlights how our unique blend of hands-on business experience and personal growth builds lasting impact — one cohort at a time.

A special thanks to the Nasdaq 10 staff members who volunteered to hear our fellows practice pitching their small businesses.

📖 Read more about our mission, why Nasdaq is such a great partner, and the lives being transformed through the Dog Tag Fellowship Program: https://bit.ly/3G3wDdV

01/29/2024

thanks for the good times Meta …had a blast!

09/05/2023

Happy Labor Day!!!

02/09/2023

Get ready to ignite the passion of love with a Valentine’s Day Couple’s Cooking Class at Mr. Smith’s of Georgetown.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/541317052877

Join us for a night of culinary romance and create a three-course meal with your special someone. With expert guidance from our chefs, you’ll roll up your sleeves and learn to make a delicious gnocchi, the classic Italian dish perfect for any romantic occasion. At just $89 per person, this is the perfect opportunity to spend a memorable evening with your loved one. Book via Eventbrite or contact us at [email protected]!

What to Expect:
- 2 1/2 hour cooking class & dining experience w/ your loved one
- Expert guidance from our chef to make the perfect gnocchi
- Two additional prepared dining courses
- A charming setting at Mr. Smith's of Georgetown in DC
- Drinks available for purchase at the bar

Event Details
- When: February 13th at 6 PM
- Where: Mr. Smith's of Georgetown, DC
- Who: Open to the public
- Includes: Cooking Class with 3 courses
- Cost: $89 per person

Please click through to book or email [email protected] if you have any questions or special requests.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/541317052877

03/18/2022

Dog Tag Bakery Co-Founder Father Rick Curry left behind an incredible legacy and we love being able to share part of that story with our guests! 💗🍪

Today we celebrate what would have been Dog Tag Co-Founder Father Rick Curry's 79th birthday!

Father Rick Curry, SJ’s purpose—helping individuals find their voice and passion—charted the course of his remarkable life and career. After meeting Constance Milstein, they developed an undeniable and powerful bond and together launched Dog Tag Bakery in 2014 to empower veterans with service-connected disabilities, military spouses, and military caregivers to find renewed purpose and community after serving our nation.⁠
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Father Curry’s legacy continues to drive our mission and bless the lives of the community we serve—fellows, alumni, customers, partners, and more—each and every day. We celebrate him today, with great admiration, and strive to carry forward the spirit of service that defined his life in everything we do. ⁠

02/02/2022

Mangia DC Food Tours is seeking passionate and energetic individuals to join the team as tour guides for the 2022 season (and beyond)! Leading a food tour is a combination of storytelling, thinking on your feet, and managing a crowd from one location to the next.

Interested? Here’s some more information about what we’re looking for in our next hire…

WHAT YOU OFFER:
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent communication
- A warm sense of humor
- An appreciation for great food and local history

Top candidates also frequently possess some or all of the following:
- Availability on weekday and weekend afternoons, occasional evenings
- Previous tourism or hospitality experience
- Post-secondary or graduate degrees, or a comparable level of curiosity and knowledge
- Experience as an actor, teacher, tour guide, or other public speaker with the ability to capture an audience’s attention, entertain and engage

And last but not least, OUR TOUR GUIDES MUST:
- Live in or near Washington, DC; preferably for 3 or more years
- Be vaccinated against COVID-19
- Utilize their personal smartphone on the job
- Be able to memorize a script
- Lead a walking tour that includes some uneven terrain (i.e. cobblestone sidewalks)
- Be responsible, reliable, and over 21 years of age

If you’ve made it this far, you know what we’re hoping candidates bring to the table, so here’s a few highlights of what Mangia DC will provide to our new teammates.

WHAT WE OFFER:
- Paid training
- The opportunity to share your passion for DC, food, local history and storytelling
- Competitive pay; Tour Guides receive a flat rate per tour, plus gratuities
Flexible scheduling as a part-time contractor
- The chance to get out from behind a desk and get your daily steps in the fresh air
- A role where you meet and interact with new people from near and far every day

Our Georgetown Foodie Tour is the first to reopen to the public in late March. It will start off running Friday to Sunday, then expand to Wednesday through Sunday operation. Next to relaunch will be the Dupont Circle Italian Food Tour with the possibility of adding additional DC neighborhoods during the regular season, currently slated to run through early November.

Want to know more? Check out MangiaDC.com.

HOW TO APPLY
Respond to this posting! The screener questions will ask for the following:
- A short explanation of why you’d make a perfect Mangia DC Food Tour Guide
- An overview of your general availability (now through November)
- An interesting fact about yourself!

02/01/2022

What delicious dish are you looking forward to this Lunar New Year?

"Traditional dishes often symbolize better luck for the future..." —nyti.ms/3umOnJh