The supposedly temporary America Eats Tavern isn't shutting its doors any time soon. While the National Archives exhibit that inspired the pop-up eatery will finish up in January, restaurateur José Andrés tells WaPo critic Tom Sietsema that he intends to keep the makeshift house of watery "catsups" and $8 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches open [...]
Minibar, ranked No. 1 on City Paper's list of "D.C.'s 44 Most Powerful Restaurants" (because "booking a reservation is harder than rescheduling a flight during a hurricane"), resumes service beginning Thursday, Sept. 1. Chef José Andrés' six-seat avant-garde "restaurant within a restaurant" has been on hiatus since July as the eatery that once housed it, [...]
The Feast reports that Paul Yeck, head chef at Jaleo in Bethesda, will replace the recently departed Richard Brandenburg as head chef at José Andrés' hugely hyped pop-up restaurant America Eats Tavern. (Read Young & Hungry's review of the temporary restaurant here.) According to the report, Yeck, a three-year veteran of Andrés' Think Food Group, [...]
Less than three weeks after opening, America Eats Tavern is losing its chef. No, not José Andrés. We're talking about Richard Brandenburg, the former head chef at Cafe Atlantico who stayed on to help Andrés conceive the historically themed America Eats pop-up concept, which Y&H reviewed last week. WaPo critic Tom Sietsema reports that Brandenburg [...]
In the rarified world of restaurant criticism, it was once customary to wait a few months after a restaurant’s opening before reviewing the place—long enough to let staffers work out the kinks that critics will inevitably savage. By most rights, a heralded chef like José Andrés would be offered such a courtesy even today, in [...]
Celebrated chef José Andrés appeared on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" Wednesday (read the transcript here) to plug his new pop-up restaurant, America Eats Tavern, located in the former Cafe Atlantico space in Penn Quarter. Proceeds from the pop-up benefit the National Archives and its exhibit, "What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?" In the interview, Andrés discusses [...]
Does anyone at Think Food Group have a clear idea of what the future will hold for Minibar (closed until July 12), Cafe Atlantico (closed indefinitely) and America Eats Tavern (temporarily open)? Not exactly. After getting conflicting reports from chef José Andrés and his business partner, Rob Wilder, as well as other TFG charges, Y&H [...]
Brochures advertising José Andrés' new pop-up restaurant, America Eats Tavern, which opened on July 4 in the former Café Atlántico space in Penn Quarter, are emblazoned with a very slick-looking mug shot of the celebrated Spanish chef (blown-up above). With that chiseled chin and melting stare, the dude kind of looks like the action film [...]
Among the many classic American recipes that celebrated chef José Andrés has planned for his upcoming pop-up restaurant, America Eats Tavern, opening the weekend of July 4 in the former Cafe Atlantico space, is one regional delicacy of which I am regretfully unfamiliar. That is the burgoo (pictured), described in Wednesday's Express Night Out preview [...]
We're halfway through the calendar, so it's time to check in to see how accurately Young & Hungry has predicted the 2011 food scene so far. OUT → IN Burgers → Hot Dogs Verdict: No. No new specialty dog shops have opened yet–just a cart called Frank–but Shake Shack is now in Dupont. It [...]
