Case Study

Crafty Bastards Does Food
Working with the City Paper to spotlight Washington's best food crafters at the first ever Crafty Bastards Farm.
We provide our partners with sustainable strategies, technical support and creative resources that turn ideas into action.
Our team facilitates a creative process to develop bold ideas. We craft concepts that endure beyond today’s trends, attract target audiences, and move food forward.
Our team will engineer the business infrastructure to actuate innovative concepts. We develop the legal and financial plans that support strength and longevity.
Our new media strategies are focused on crafting narratives that establish a consistent voice that positions our projects as leaders among target audiences.
The food sector has experienced unprecedented growth over the past decade. Farmers markets, pop-up dinners and smartphone apps have created an exciting but crowded marketplace. Our creative team will shape concepts that are strong and differentiated. We deepen ideas through extensive research and smart networking. Our thinking is underscored by a commitment to move food forward.

Working with the City Paper to spotlight Washington's best food crafters at the first ever Crafty Bastards Farm.
Our team will develop the legal and business tools that bring strong ideas to market. Strategic planning and relationship building is essential to realizing the potential of our projects. Beginning day one, we take a comprehensive approach to tackle our objectives and create new opportunities. To accomplish this, we think outside the box, assemble teams and work in the trenches to set a trajectory for success.

Marketing has gone beyond the press release. It’s about building movements. Not campaigns. Dynamic events, digital media and focused public relations are how we build active communities around our projects. We use a broad repertoire of traditional and new media tools to craft compelling public narratives that engage target audiences, thought leaders and influencers. New media is the vehicle to establish meaningful experiences for our brands.

Roadside Food Projects is spearheading the FoodCorps & James Beard Fundraiser on June 3rd, 2012 with prolific real estate developer EDENS. We are brining the best chefs in the city - the likes of Bryan Voltaggio, Mike Isabella, and Fabio Trabocchi - to relaunch the historic Union Market.
The Sweetlife Festival is a daylong celebration of soulful music, fresh food, and thoughtful living, spearheaded by local restaurant group Sweetgreen. Roadside Food Projects was engaged to integrate brands that would deepen the festival experience beyond the music.
Roadside Food Projects is spearheading the FoodCorps & James Beard Fundraiser on June 3rd, 2012 with prolific real estate developer EDENS. We are brining the best chefs in the city - the likes of Bryan Voltaggio, Mike Isabella, and Fabio Trabocchi - to relaunch the historic Union Market.
I stepped in to the professional kitchen when I was fifteen and never looked back. What started as an addiction to the fast-pace, high-energy life of a line cook transformed into a broader commitment to change our relationship with food. I left the restaurant world last year to launch a business with a simple mission: take good food beyond the confines of fancy restaurants. One year later, we are collaborating on several exciting projects that we hope will move food forward.
I have always been inspired by the power of food to connect people. The opportunity at Roadside Food Projects to build a dynamic business working to reshape the food system aligned with my vision for social change. My background in law and finance has taught me to analyze situations and examine challenges from multiple vantage points to craft pragmatic solutions. Though the challenges are great, I am committed to work to bring good food to a broader audience.
Cooking and eating in my family kitchen animated my earliest experiences with food. Traveling and working as a climate activist made me realize that food has the power to transform communities and the world. When we founded Roadside Food Projects, we committed to the ethos of food as a vehicle for environmental stewardship that would run through all of our initiatives. My background in new media and online entrepreneurship brings a unique perspective to our team and enables us to see projects and ideas in a different way.

DC has never been known for its delicatessens. Sure, New York has us beat but there’s a legacy here too we mustn’t forget. Hofberg’s Delicatessen was the place for many generations. For g-ds sake, our parents were bar mitzvahed there. Yesterday, while mining through archival photographs at the Jewish Historical Society in downtown DC, we stumbled…
We look forward to collaborating.
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Our doors are always open.