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The Wrap-Up: The Week in Food
Every week we fill you in on what’s been going on in the food and restaurant world.
By
Ann Limpert
• As if pleading guilty to a felony embezzlement charge wasn’t bad enough, Washington City Paper’s Tim Carman reports that Italian chef Roberto Donna, of the late Galileo and Bebo Trattoria, may owe hundreds of thousands of dollars for what a judge ruled as “minimum wage, overtime, and equal pay violations.” Thursday, Donna will face a hearing to figure out what he owes the 11 employees—bussers, servers, and even his personal assistant—who are bringing the complaint. What will the chef’s latest set of problems do to his forthcoming resurrection of Galileo? Carman notes that the day of ruling, Donna posted an ad on DonRockwell.com looking for a mixologist for a bar to open in August.
• The latest Zagat ratings are out, and Marcel’s in DC’s West End gets the highest grade. Rounding out the top five are the Inn at Little Washington, Komi, CityZen, and Rasika. Makoto—the tiny Japanese restaurant in DC’s Palisades that has been an odd perennial in the top tier—gets sixth place. • Washington Business Journal’s Missy Frederick has updates on a few openings. The Penn Quarter outpost of Cuba Libre is now set for September 17. A branch of megagrocery Wegmans will open in Lanham on October 24. And Flip Burger, the Atlanta-based creation of Top Chef’s Richard Blaise, is still looking to bring its foie-gras-topped patties and Krispy Kreme milkshakes to DC—it’s hoping to figure out a location in the next few months. • Michael Batterberry, who cofounded Food Arts with his wife, Ariane, has died at age 78. Batterberry also started Food & Wine in 1978. Wine Spectator notes that before that, he worked as a cabaret singer in Rome and a sketch artist for the Paris Review. In May, he and Ariane received a James Beard lifetime-achievement award. Subscribe to Washingtonian
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Please do not go Mussel Bar in Bethesda that just opened up. The food is expensive and not worth the price. But mainly it’s because of the service received by none other than the restaurant manager and owner. We went on Friday and my husband didn’t have his ID with him. We are a couple in our late late thirties and look it. We had our teenage... son with us. Since I had an ID, I ordered the drink and my husband sipped from it. The owner and the manager started to yell at us as if we were teenage kids trying to get drunk in the middle of our meal. Threatening to throw us out if my husband drank another sip. I understood his policy but come on ...yelling at us...really?
I was beyond mortified and embarrassed. More for him than for us. I plan on telling everyone about how little he thinks of his patrons. I am also a writer so you can bet this is what’s on my mind and where my writing energies will go. For $12 beer, and I was treated like crap. I implore anyone who feel this is uncalled for to ban this restaurant
Posted by: anna, Aug 01, 2010 12:49:42 AM
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