Lisa Shapiro, a native Washingtonian is the founder of Dining in DC, which she began in June 2007 to capture her dining experiences. Dining in DC strives to always be on top of what's new in the DC area restaurant scene with dining reviews, special seasonal roundups, personal recommendations via "Ask Lisa", tips for diners, news, and more. In addition, since 2009, Lisa serves as the DC Restaurant Examiner for Examiner.com and also as the Dining Editor for a monthly travel publication, DC Metro Magazine. You may recognize her as she starred with Top Chef cheftestant, Carla Hall as a food judge on the Travel Channel's Food Wars. She is also the co-founder of 4Bitten Media, a blog collective that offers advertising, social media promotion, and event planning to DC area restaurant industry clients. She lives in NoVa with her husband and two children.