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The Unsettling Audaciousness of Officina

Officina, 1120 Maine Ave SW, Washington DC (The Wharf) I should have been in a better mood when I left Officina after dinner last Friday night. I’d just eaten at one of the most anticipated restaurant openings of 2018 by one of DC’s top chefs, Nicholas Stefanelli of Masseria. Indeed “restaurant” is probably an inadequate word to describe what I’d ...READ MORE »

Requin for a Heavyweight

Posted by Rick Chessen

Requin at The Wharf, 100 District Square SW, Washington DC My wife doesn’t quite understand my obsession with knowing if the head chef is in the kitchen when we eat out. Chefs train their subordinates to execute their vision, she argues, so there’s no reason to believe that quality will suffer just because the chef took the night off. In an ...READ MORE »