Attention fans of the late and beloved Farrah Olivia: When chef Morou Ouattara closed the restaurant in Old Town Alexandria in 2009, he said at the time he'd reopen the the place, Washingtonian reported at the time, "in downtown DC within the next 'nine to 12 months.'" Fast forward... Instead, Farrah Olivia will be reopening [...]

Kora chef/co-owner Morou Ouattara has just launched a line of African spices as a nod both to his youth on the Ivory Coast and to his style of modern American cooking, last sampled at Farrah Olivia, which incorporates African ingredients. Chef Morou, as he is known to his many followers, answered a few e-mail questions from Y&H about [...]

I was eager to see what the Brothers Ouattara would do with Italian cuisine at Kora, so the wife and I jumped into the ol' global warming machine on a recent Sunday to try the brunch at this new Crystal City outpost, located in the old Bebo Trattoria space. Brunch is never my preferred way [...]

Bibiana Osteria and Enoteca, the latest entrant in the area's escalating Italian Restaurant Wars, will indeed serve pizza, just like a number of other combatants in this wide-scale skirmish, including Potenza, Ristorante Posto, and Kora. But owner Ashok Bajaj doesn't want pies to define his new place at 1100 New York Ave. NW, which will [...]

We here at Young & Hungry Central are always on the cutting-edge of new media and technology, which is just a clever way of saying that we, too, can steal shit from Twitter and pass it along as news.  Here's the latest from the 21st Century version of the AP wire: From chef Morou Ouattara [...]