Posts Tagged ‘Central Michel Richard’
Bibiana Hires Central’s Pastry Chef Hernandez
Bibiana has hired Douglas Hernandez, pastry chef at Central Michel Richard, to handle the desserts at the forthcoming downtown osteria/enoteca from Ashok Bajaj. Bibiana will have its “soft” opening on Monday, Sept. 7.
Hernandez has been with Central for more than two years, says Mel Davis, spokesperson for the celebrity chef. At Central, Hernandez has been in charge of executing Richard’s justly famous dessert menu, whether his clever, crunchy take on the Kit Kat bar or the chef’s luxe version of a banana split.
True Dining Guide Confessions #4: I Don’t Care About Interior Design
I don’t have strong feelings about interior design. I recognize good interior design when I see it. I even appreciate a designer’s ingenuity in transforming a room basically filled with tables and chairs into something aesthetically pleasing. But for whatever reason, I can feel just as happy at Honey Pig in Annandale, which is little more than corrugated tin and concrete, as I can inside the soaring Adamstein & Demetriou–designed dining room at Zaytinya. When I’m honest, I have to admit that a few of the most “elegant” dining rooms in the area—I’m thinking about you, Inox and Central—actually leave me cold.
Photo of 2941’s actually awesome interior by Darrow Montgomery
True Dining Guide Confessions #1: Why D.C.’s Best Restaurants Didn’t Make the List
Allow me to tell you about some of the restaurants that didn’t make this year’s Young & Hungry guide to the 50 Best Restaurants in D.C. Michel Richard Citronelle, for one. Komi didn’t, either, no matter how many times some New Yorker wants to tell me what a genius Johnny Monis is. I sent other sacred cows to slaughter, too: Palena, Restaurant Eve, Minibar at Café Atlantico, CityZen, 2Amys, Inn at Little Washington, and Central didn’t make my final cut. You want more? Buh-bye, CityZen and Ray’s Hell Burger.
Trust me, I’m not trying to be difficult. I’m just trying to be realistic. Do you really need me—or anyone else for that matter—to tell you to eat at these places? I might as well tell you to wear clothes when you go outside.
Photograph of Palena’s Frank Ruta by Darrow Montgomery
