Of all the new bistros that have tried to make us feel better about our crappy economy through French country cooking, only Bistro Cacao stands out, perhaps because the Turkish owners had the good sense to appoint their Red Room with upholstered wing chairs, small table lamps, large scarlet drapes, and just about anything else [...]
I'd like to take a few moments to talk about a trend that my food-writing colleague, Metrocurean, touched upon earlier this year: upscale corner markets. You know the places. Neighborhood bodegas, those little shops of marginal quality, which have nonetheless helped us stock our pantries for years, long before the major grocery chains decided D.C. [...]
The First Lady has been the topic of foodie chatter on two fronts this week — first for her stop at Gramercy Tavern on Thursday, followed shortly thereafter with the launch of the "Michelle Melt" at Good Stuff Eatery. Let's see what the media had to say on these and other urgent foodie matters: Eater [...]
Following the closing of Roberto Donna's Bebo Trattoria and the impending closure of Yannick Cam's Le Paradou, news has broken of two more shutterings on the local restaurant scene. Todd Kliman at the Washingtonian reports this afternoon that Farrah Olivia, chef Morou Ouattara's Old Town outpost of modern American cooking, will be closing its doors [...]
Chef Yannick Cam, who introduced Washingtonians to nouvelle cuisine via his much-decorated Le Pavillon, doesn't get as much love as he used to in this town. Le Paradou, Cam's luxe French operation in Penn Quarter, reached only No. 43 on the Washingtonian's Top 100 restaurants list this year, and it didn't even make the cut [...]
