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Michelin has released its highly-anticipated 2022 stars for DC restaurants. Four places have been added to the exclusive list and three big names have been removed bringing the total number of Michelin-starred DC dining rooms to 24. All of the new additions are one-star winners. Michelin's anonymous inspectors raved about Albi, chef Michael Rafidi's wood-fired Levantine restaurant in Michelin releases four new star winners and its list of wallet-friendly Bib Gourmand restaurants in DC ....
Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… I already get the newsletter Over the past year, restaurant owners have lamented being at the mercy of the weather. Surprise squalls and cold snaps thwarted customers’ outdoor dining plans and dollars, metaphorically speaking, slipped down storm drains. Other tortured proprietors had to expand or shrink their staff like an accordion as the city loosened and tightened indoor dining capacity. Still more said they had to cut the cord on the notion that the “customer is always right” when diners wouldn’t adhere to regulations set by the city. ....
The deets: You won’t find any skinny pizza at a bar that celebrates two thick-pie Midwestern cities. The Detroit pizza Ivy and Coney cranks out is cooked in a pan and benefits from the inclusion of Wisconsin brick cheese. Co-owner Chris Powers says it has a squishy chew akin to cheese curds. “It has a higher fat content than cheddar, so when it goes up against the edge of the pan it crisps instead of burns,” he explains. That creates what’s known as a frico layer on the focaccia crust. “Corner slices are what people fight over,” he says. ....