Arlington County Government, VA Food For Thought, 2 Feb 2010

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From YouTube: Lost Dog Cafe

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Since 1985, the Lost Dog Café has been serving up the some of the areas best pizza, sandwiches and beers from around the world. Founded by area locals, this restaurant began by serving more than just the people who came in. Since the beginning, its been about compassion, helping to have placed almost 2000 animals per year into permanent, loving homes through their Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation. Its a restaurant that has more than just amazing food, but a healthy heart

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Open in 1985, the lost dog cafe serves up the area's best pizza, sandwiches and beers from around the world, but it also serves up some serious compassion founded by area locals. The lost dog cafe started with a few boss dogs looking for a home now with a lost dog and cat Rescue Foundation, the owners helped almost 2,000 animals every year buying permanent loving homes. So it's a restaurant with more than just amazing food, but also a healthy heart.

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How did the idea of lost dog cafe from about we.

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Came about many years ago there was a small wine and cheese shelf available in Westover, so we purchased it in 1985 and it has grown into the lost dog cafe because we're rescuing a bunch of loss, dogs and.

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Then you open the lost dog, it had rescue foundations, the.

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Rescue foundation came about in 2001, we started out really small and now it's grown. Do we have 3,000 volunteers and we're at five events every weekend without fail? How.

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Can people learn more? Is there a website where should they go great.

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We always need volunteers, we always need foster parents for some of these dogs coming up as shelters or puppies cats, kittens go to a lost dog rescue, dot org. You can sign up and volunteer.

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And you have a new location now we have.

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Four guys that work for us as drivers when they were like 16 years old, they all went out into the world, got real jobs, got college degrees.

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Payments are less approached us and said that they were interested in opening. You know a franchise of lost dog in they did it. You know they really came out and did it. They have a wonderful location in south Darwin said on Columbia Pike Columbia.

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Pike was easily easily the the pick for us originally when Jim and Wes and Dana were looking at the project way back when to three years out. We actually originally came to this location as a first starting point with the Columbia Pike revitalization, it's a no brainer, South Arlington's been calling for a lost off for ever since I can remember work in there, so they opened their arms for us and we've had we've been successful since day, one and so far so good.

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So we're excited to be here and maybe really the community's embraced us quite a bit hidden.

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Customers expect more restaurants in the future. Yeah.

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We're we're looking to move slowly but surely Pam and Ross are fully supporting the floor of us right now. So we're looking forward to moving to Alexandria McClain, maybe DC, but right now we're focused on a plane is probably the the future site of number three. It's.

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A place where you can a neighborhood feel where you can come in and relax get. You know, good, feel, good food and just chill out well.

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I can't wait to get back there and see how you cook it off. Can we head back.

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We're in the kitchen with Pam and lost our cafe Sam this.

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Is for plumbing meets our you have so.

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Many great-looking sandwiches, let's start making much, is it okay if I prepare a little.

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Right so today we're making him 45. It's called the fat moly with garlic.

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Just a little bit.

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It's a tiny bit of chicken, a little pepper and a little bit of spinach all right! So then you're just going to take a little bit of mozzarella.

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A little busy all right.

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Ready to try garlic butter, no was just definitely used a lot of it.

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I especially love it with Rozlyn delicious good job. Alright, what's next.

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Before it tells me that you're facing up to be too fine is so what do you bake.

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A Britain and what is as it starts off with a whole wheat pizza, dough, it's better with toxic, because that is thoroughly all the way through and you won't get any of those annoying bubbles that you see some going to start with a marinara.

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Whiteface of cheese to start with, take sliced portobello mushroom. Then we put some red onions on red. Onions tend to have a little bit different flavors and the white onions, red pepper. I was.

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Very healthy and delicious: let's.

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Grab some spinach done.

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Now, what you beat this year, dog quit.

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Hurt them come on, it gets soft with a little bit of fresh mozzarella and.

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I noticed you put the cheese on the top and.

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The bottom layer- that's good, institute, safai right now, so that the edges we're round yes and you take a little dried basil.

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Possibly fresh basil: now we bake it 550.

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Oh I got a bite of basil, X :. I those ingredients go absolutely yes. I know you have and you're very creative mind if I make up my own pocket.

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We put the chicken BBQ on.

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Cat3 many dogs.

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Under the lettuce onion.

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Well, thank you very much. Thank you for having us in your kitchen. It's a great cause, there's been a delight. I could spend all day here just making everything on the menu and, of course, tasting it, but unfortunately we're all out of time, but that doesn't mean you can't come here yourself visit lost dog cafe.com to get a complete menu hours and directions, and if you want to help animals in need, visit lost dog rescue, org stay tuned. There's plenty more to come here on food for thought.

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