Nycci Nellis

“How does she always get the inside scoop?”

One of the DC area’s best known and most respected food,
Wine, and hospitality journalists, Nycci Nellis sits atop an impressive
offering of dining out/going out/dining in media platforms. Locally/globally
recognized as the Greater Washington region’s “go-to” source for the latest
on what’s happening across the edibles, potables and parties and party
scene, she is:
• Founder and publisher of TheListAreYouOnIt.com (The List), since 2004
aggregating and updating the latest info for everything happening across
the regional, food and beverage landscape.
• A featured presenter on WTOP 103.5 FM, the DC area’s top-rated radio
station
• Co-host of DC’s Number One food, wine and spirits variety show, Foodie
and the Beast. Now in its 15th year, the one-hour show airs weekly on
1500 AM and focuses on what we eat and drink, how and why, and
features a lively mix of established and emerging, local-to-global celebrities
and personalities who dominate and innovate in the restaurants, vineyards,
farms, breweries, distilleries, cocktail bars, seafood farms, and more that
feed our need for delicious, nourishing, food and drink.
Show guests since the first airing in 2008 represent a "Who's who" of
locally-, nationally- and internationally-celebrated chefs, mixologists,
brewmasters, winemakers, food journalists, authors. and other luminaries,
such as Jean-George Vongerichten; Thomas Keller; Wolfgang Puck; Eric
Ripert; Rick Bayless; Michael Mina; Michel Richard; Top Chef-testants
Spike Mendelsohn, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, and Marjorie Meek
Bradley; cookbook authors and food and wine journalists and authors,
such as have included Marcella Hazan; David Hagedorn; Bon Appetit's
former editor-in-chief, Barbara Fairchild; Washington Post dining critic, Tom
Seitsema and Post food writer, cookbook author and James Beard judge,
David Hagedorn, among many, many more.
• Host and producer of Industry Night, a weekly podcast available on
YouTube and iTunes that takes listeners and guests on scintillating, deep
dives into subjects impacting the worlds of food, wines, spirits and brews,
from sexual harassment in professional kitchens and start-up

entrepreneurship to the real facts behind sustainable seafood, how iconic
restaurateurs do their thing, organic farming breakthroughs and … more.
• Founder and publisher of TheListAreYouOnIt.com (The List), one of
America’s first websites of its kind. Hailed by The Washington Post as, "one
of the premier resources for all things food and wine in DC and beyond",
The List has presented aggregated and always-updated details for
everything of interest happening across the region's food, wine, and more
scenes since 2004.
• A featured, weekly presenter on WTOP 103.5 FM, the DC area’s top radio
station
• A local, social media leader and influencers. Including her subscribers to
The List, Nycci reaches more than 350,000 with a people Twitter,
Instagram, and  Facebook.  
• A frequent guest on local broadcast and cable TV, presenting “What’s
happening” updates across the dining out scene and more.
And when top chefs come to town, they come to Nycci  to be interviewed.
Click the links below to see her interviews with Wolfgang Puck,  Michael
Mina, Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. 
Wolfgang Puck: 
o Wolfgang Puck - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0MbJFml20
o Michael Mina -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUXwYxD1kro 
o Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert - http://youtu.be/9_KZ60r5oF0 
• A respected business and social media consultant to restaurants (Nobu,
DC; Aramark, Todd and Ellen Gray’s  Equinox); dining out-related mobile
apps (Blue Cart), and farmers’ markets and seafood distributors (Fresh
Farm Markets, Congressional Seafood). 
Additionally, Nycci serves as consultant to the Wine & Food  Festival
annually held at National Harbor, Md., where she curates and emcees the
live chef demos for the more than 14,000 attendees at the two-day event
with such local, celebrity chefs as Rock Harper (a Hell’s Kitchen alum); 
Bryan Voltaggio (Volt, Range, Family Meal); Scott Drewno (The Source by
Wolfgang Puck); Victor Albisu (Del Campo; Taco Bamba) and Danny Lee
(Mandu, Chi-Ko), among many others. 
• Former brand ambassador for companies you know, such as Celebrity
Cruises and for Gloria  Ferrar Wines (Sonoma, CA).  
• A close colleague and supporter of the Restaurant Association of
Metropolitan Washington  (RAMW) and a founding committee member and
past chair of the Human Rights Campaign’s annual, Chefs for Equality
event, now the HRC’s single-most successful fundraiser in the Washington,
DC region. 
• A frequent emcee and judge for local, food/wine/spirits/brews-related
events, from celebrity chef competitions to nonprofits’ galas. 

Want to chat? Nycci can be reached at
nycci@TheListAreYouOnIt.com or at 301-213-8992.