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Rosemary Bistro Cafe’s bouillabaisse is packed with mussels, squid, shrimp, scallops, red snapper, monkfish and vegetables, and served with baguette slices with garlic saffron aioli. Photo by Deb Lindsey
Rosemary Bistro Cafe
Upper Northwest D.C.
“Have you eaten with us before?” Fred Darricarrere asks when I call in an order to Rosemary Bistro Cafe, the restaurant he opened in Upper Northwest D.C. in July. “No,” I reply, not letting on that I’m a restaurant critic. “Ah! It’s a cold winter night, so I’ll add a warm baguette as a thank you. It will soak up all those good juices of your boeuf bourguignon and bouillabaisse.” In my follow-up reporting, he sends a video of the 2,000-square-foot interior, with its gold tin ceiling, skylights, vintage French travel posters, mustard-colored floor and stunning Medusa-like red an
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Chef Tony s in Bethesda is launching Hemi Pizza, a pickup and delivery operation serving Detroit-style pizzas.
Logo from Hemi Pizza Instagram page
Chef Tony’s launching side pizza operation this week
The Mediterranean-style Bethesda seafood restaurant Chef Tony’s is launching Hemi Pizza this week a new pickup and delivery concept serving Detroit-style pizza.
Detroit style pizzas are distinctive for being rectangular, and for their use of Focaccia-style dough and buttery crust, according to Hemi Pizza’s website. The pizza style got its name after Detroit restaurant Buddy’s pizza started making it in rectangular steel pans in 1946.