Over the years, I’ve been tough on Dean Gold’s Italian restaurant and enoteca in Cleveland Park. So tough, in fact, that I’m reminded of my own teenage experience in track and field, when, after I’d won three out of four competitions in the city championships, my father turned to me and said (and I paraphrase [...]
Two years after they launched their successful Columbia Heights pizzeria, the owners of Pete's Apizza are set to open a second store on Wednesday, June 16, in a former consignment shop at 4940 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Well, actually, the new Pete's will occupy two former storefronts on Wisconsin Avenue, all the better to meet your [...]
Y&H received a tip this morning that Teatro Goldoni, which earlier this month fired its celebrated chef Enzo Fargione, has apparently just canned its general manager, too. At least one cook may have quit as well. "Apparently no one is very happy about the drastic changes or the new retro concept the owner wants to [...]
The public reaction to Enzo Fargione's sacking from Teatro Goldoni has been swift and mostly pro-chef. Here's a sample of the chatter: WaPoster wrote: "My guess is this jerk had allowed the joint to circle the drain for too long so all that was left to respond to the new menu was a nest of barflies. That [...]
Enzo Fargione, the chef who put an antiquated Teatro Goldoni back on the culinary map, was fired from his job earlier this month after owner Michael Kosmides allegedly told the toque that he was "just too expensive," according to the dismissed cook. Teatro's owners, says Fargione, plan to turn the K Street institution into a [...]
The rumor came in late yesterday and general manager Tomaso Beggiato just now confirmed it: Sesto Senso, the Dupont Circle outlet for Italian cuisine and Eurotrash nightclubbing, is calling it quits. Beggiato said Sesto Senso (which means "sixth sense" in Italian) will close on Saturday but will reopen at a later date with a different concept. Plans and [...]
So I took the pukey-tasting burrata back to Balducci’s yesterday morning and talked to a nice woman at the customer service counter. When I showed her the date on the label, she frowned and pointed out that there was another label on the tub, one stamped by Balducci’s itself. It said 2/6/2010. She went back and [...]
Well, that was quick. Though the New York Times sort of predicted it three months ago. WaPo's Tom Sietsema tweeted earlier this afternoon that D.C. might be the beneficiary of this ill-fated relationship: Food lovers, cross your fingers. Chef Fabio Trabocchi emails me that he's "Looking at more than one option and DC is one [...]
The problem with making my own pizza from scratch is two-fold: 1) I've enjoyed so many good pies over the years that anything I produce is bound to disappoint, and 2) I know people who know how to make terrific pizza and are willing to offer up their dough recipe. The picture to the left, [...]
Long before the current crop of Italian newcomers started flooding our streets with pasta, there was Cafe Paradiso on Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park. The neighborhood haunt has been around since 1989, back when some of the new chefs on the scene were still having their moms cut their spaghetti for them. "Tavi" is a [...]
