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Jackie's hire Frank Morales, formerly at Rustico. Big plans afoot, only some of which Jackie Greenbaum will reveal.
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Frank Ruta says there are at least two more obstacles in his way before Palena expands into Magruder's. The details are here.
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A celebrity chef makes a surprise visit to G Street yesterday. Maybe because he has his own new street-food restaurant?
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Howard and Calkins are going to open a third Urban in Sandy Spring in a few weeks. Details here.
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This just in on the Y&H blog: Bibiana Osteria has hired Central's pastry chef, Douglas Hernandez. (Don, I couldn't find an established forum for Bibiana. Please move this, as you see fit.)
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Birch & Barley/ChurchKey has named a chef to replace Frank Morales.
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Todd Wiss has been gone for awhile now. His replacement, Arra Lawson, formerly of Addie's,has come and gone now, too. Black's new chef is Quanta Robinson, formerly of BlackSalt. Jeff Black explains the latest moves.
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I spoke with Frank Morales today about his future, and it would seem to be awash in suds. Read more. I'm still trying to find out what will happen at Rustico and Birch & Barley now that Morales is out. Chefs who focus on beer-friendly food don't exactly grow like barley in Russia.
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Doh! Such are the problems of this brave new editor-less blog world, which will be the downfall of western civilization in the long run. Thanks for catching this. Typo fixed!
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I had been trying to track this down for a couple of weeks. I finally got a hold of Jamie yesterday, and he confirms that he's no longer a partner in MeatCrafters. The details are here.
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Just got off the phone this afternoon with James Alefantis. He has hired former Food Matters sous chef, Vickie Reh, as the head chef at Bucks. More info here.
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Nathans in Georgetown is closing. City Paper has a couple of items on the news: 1. The closing announcement in Young & Hungry with some speculation on Carol Joynt's future 2. More on the non-sale of the Georgetown building on Housing Complex [Note: Don, I couldn't find a page for Nathans under restaurants. If I've overlooked the page, please move this over.]
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At the risk of pissing Rocks off for self-promotional linking, I thought I'd let you know about another planned BGR location set to open. Don, no hard feelings if you want to delete this, the victim of just another cheap ploy for Y&H traffic. -Tim
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If you feel like reading all the ugly details, we have the full inspector's report available on the Young & Hungry blog. Warning: It's not pretty.
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Y&H interviewed Janet Yu about the sorry state of affairs at Hollywood East.
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Well, of course, we had to do our own obligatory Obama visits Hell Burger story. Real quotes included. Landrum may even recognize his honeyed words this time around...
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Damn, I keep getting beat by minutes! But I think you'll find more and better details with this blog posting over at Young & Hungry.
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Breaking News - Michel Richard To Tysons Corner
tcarman replied to DonRocks's topic in News and Media
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I never said the crime was inconsequential. That is your interpretation. I said the matter was between the government and he owners, which it is. I play no role in the legal matter, other than to decide whether I will frequent the place after weighing all the information I can get a hold of. I believe in second chances, particularly when restitution is being made, and I also believe that humans are too quick to judge fellow humans when they have only a shaky grasp of the facts. (I include myself in this group, of course.) For instance, one thing that you keep repeating is that the Solanos "abused" their employees. There has been no charge on that matter. The family pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, which stemmed from hiring illegal immigrants. It took me awhile to wrap my head around this legal argument, since money laundering usually involves drugs, guns or prostitution. But the family laundered money based on its illegal employment of aliens. There has been no allegations of abuse of those employees. I guess you could say that harboring aliens and paying them under the table is abuse in and of itself, but at least one source told me that the Solanos treated their employees well, paid medical bills, etc. Illegal workers in this country is a far too complex issue to attack so blithely. Do you have more information on alleged abuses of the employees or do you just assume that they were poorly paid and exploited? Second, I'd hate for you to be my parole officer. Or anyone else's. No one would get a second chance in life.
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Waitman, Waitman, Waitman, What am I going to do with you? Do you need a good spanking for your grandiloquent ability to spin my column into a statement on state-sponsored propaganda designed to lead everyone down some amoral black hole? (I mean, invoking Leni Riefenstahl? Why don't you just grab me by the balls and call me Hitler? I expect more subtlety from you!) Perhaps a second and more generous reading of the column would have unearthed this simple statement at the top of the article: "That’s when it hit me that there’s another layer to ethical eating, buried way underneath the heavier issues of animal rights, fair-trade products, sustainable ingredients, and organic foods." In other words, I was trying to deal with what I noticed was a minor trend among diners: Those who won't frequent a place when the owners have crossed some ethical or criminal line, even when the owners have paid the price, both in terms of jail time and financial remuneration. You (and admittedly others, including my wife) have responded almost exclusively to what I'm now calling the Amoral Palate Paragraph, which makes it seem like I expanded the argument beyond my initial premise. That wasn't my intention, and I wish I would have been clearer. I do believe there are beliefs worth fighting for---and worth steering away from restaurants for. But, Waitman, do you really want to adopt such a self-righteous tone in this rejoinder? Would not an intrepid reporter, if he/she were to follow you, find massive ethical lapses in your eating habits? A foie gras here, a Chilean sea bass there? Maybe you've frequented restaurants that have treated employees far worse---and you just didn't have the Washington Post to tell you about it? My main point is that when a restaurateur has crossed a line---and the institutions assigned to punish the wrongdoer have done their job---I don't think I need to pile on.
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A little more news on Clark's new venture.
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Some news you can really use: the grand re-opening of El Pollo Rico in Wheaton.
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And now that moment you've all been waiting for: This week's top posts from the Young & Hungry blog. Plus, an added bonus: A teaser on Sudhir Seth's new restaurant, Spice X-ing in Rockville.
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In case you have nothing else to do, this week's greatest hits from the Y&H blog.
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Some news on the move.