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Ƶapp Announces Winners of Annual Top 10 Contest, Recipients of $10,000 in Donations

For Immediate Release August 16, 2022

Washington, D.C. Ƶapp and Ƶapp.com, today announced Grand Prize winners in the “Ƶapp Top 10 Contest” supporting local area restaurants in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Grand Prize winners will each receive $1,000 in their designated food category, for a total of $10,000 donated to restaurants across the DC region.

 

Over the course of four weeks, listeners nominated and voted on their favorite local restaurants in Maryland, DC and Virginia in each of ten food categories. You can find the list of top 10 finalists by clicking each category below.

 

1.) Best BBQ

2.) Best Burger

3.) Best Pizza

4.) Best International Cuisine

5.) Best Bakery

6.) Best Coffee Shop

7.) Best Vegetarian / Vegan

8.) Best Place to Grab a Drink (Brewery, Winery, Bar..etc)

9.) Best Seafood

10.) Best Brunch

 

To be eligible for a nomination and ultimately voting, each local restaurant nominated was required to meet the following criteria:

 

  • Have a physical presence in Maryland, D.C. or Virginia
  • Have a majority of locations within the Maryland, D.C. or Virginia area
  • Be currently open for business at the time of nomination

 

The restaurants with the most votes in each category at the end of the voting window were deemed the Grand Prize winners and recipients of $1,000.

 

“The last few years have been especially hard for the small businesses that make up the heart of our community,” Ƶapp Senior Vice President and General Manager Joel Oxley said. “We are so excited to be able to continue our annual Ƶapp Top 10 Contest and work together with our neighbors to highlight and support the best local restaurants across our region.”

 

This year, Ƶapp’s Top 10 graphic was designed by local D.C.-based artist, JD Deardourff JD Deardourff creates bold, graphic, bittersweet compositions that riff on traditional genres of landscape, still-life, and portraiture. His screen prints, murals, paintings, and collages draw their inspiration from the vocabulary of comic books: exaggeration, energy, movement, contour line, the interplay of sequential images, and, most importantly, artificial color. He combines these elements to form a world that is simultaneously optimistic and apocalyptic. JD resides here in Washington DC.

 

You can find more of his work online or on .

 

For more information visit Ƶapp.com and search “Top 10.”

 

About Ƶapp

Ƶapp Radio has served the Washington region since 1926 and has been Washington’s all-news radio station since 1969. Ƶapp is available on 103.5 FM in the D.C. metro, 103.9 FM in Frederick, 107.7 FM to the south and on any mobile device at Ƶapp.com. Ƶapp and its sister station Federal News Radio are owned and operated by Hubbard Radio, LLC.

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Contact:

Elly Rowe
erowe@wtop.com

 

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