In Part1of this series of books we addressed the main restaurant groups in the Washington DC area: José Andrès’ ThinkFoodGroup, Ashok Bajaj’s Knightsbridge Group, Fabio Trabocchi's Restaurant Group, Robert Wiedmaier’s RW Group. In this Part 2, we focus on a few great chefs in the area.
Five of them have been around for a long time, and the other two, despite having well established reputations, are representative of a younger generation. We start with Chef Patrick O’Connell, who opened his The Inn at Little Washington in 1978. Two other representatives of the old guard are Chef Yannick Cam and Chef Frank Ruta. We next address Chef Roberto Donna, who started his successful trajectory at Galileo in 1984. Our focus then goes to Chef Michel Richard.
The representatives of the younger generation covered in this book are: Chefs Eric Ziebold, and Nick Stefanelli. In 1978, while The Inn of Little Washington was starting its successful trajectory, Chef Ziebold was 6 years old, and Chef Stefanelli was not born yet.
There are still more memories of Washington DC area restaurants that I want to register and share. Therefore, there are more books to come.