From a new Baltimore FUSHI Restaurant Alizee bistro & wine bar(http://www.citypeek.com/baltimore/dining ) in Baltimore to a New KUSHI Restaurant to open in DC in Fall 2009-- Husband and wife team Darren Lee Norris and Ari Kushimoto Norris have signed a deal for a 4000 sq. ft. space at 645 K St NW in the City Vista building for a Japanese Izakaya style pub. Chef Norris was most recently Executive Chef of Ridgewells Caterers of Bethesda MD.
"Kushi Restaurant" will feature Kushiyaki and sushi as well as other regional Japanese specialties with an emphasis on local, organic and sustainable products.
Center piece of the open kitchen design will be the Kushi grills, where simply seasoned skewers of meats, seafood, poultry, and vegetables are grilled over open flames, and a robata fire pit for grilling whole fish and larger cuts of meats.
At the KUSHI Sushi Bar, Sushi Chef Yoshihisa Ota, chef/owner of the highly acclaimed Tokyo restaurant Ginza Gakyu. Chef Ota is well known as a rising star in the Tokyo sushi circles and is expected to bring a fresh new direction in sushi to the Washington dining scene. The Kushi/Ginza Gakyu partnership is the first and only outpost of a Tokyo sushi restaurant in the Washington, DC area.
At the bar look for exclusive small batch sakes, shochus, and Japanese micro brew beers on tap. The restaurant will also feature several private kotatsu dining rooms and a refrigerated glass enclosed fish prep room.
Rounding out the Kushi team of partners is long time Ridgewells Sous Chef Peter Laufer who will be opening Chef de Cuisine and local artist Thom Flynn as Director of Beverage Service. Look for an October '09 opening.
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ARLINGTON, VA has a new gastro McGintys Public House pub concept. The kitchen is run by Executive Chef Duane Keller. Comfort food is the focus, every day and night. Gorgeous, cottage-style feel like in Ireland.
A LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAVORITE in also is it's older sister, McGinty's of Silver Spring Maryland, McGinty's Public House and Restaurant has moved into Virginia. McGinty's Public House is a Traditional Irish Pub and Restaurant. This unique venture is Irish owned and managed and aims to bring a little Irish hospitality and friendliness to its surrounding communities. A Public House is a gathering location for the whole community. In keeping with this tradition, McGinty's Public House VA provides a full range of services: A place to enjoy the outdoors and while away the spring and summer hours on a large outdoor patio; A tranquil dining experience in our secluded dining room; A cozy area in which to chat and catch up with friends in an elegant small bar; and, a Grand Bar area-the social hub of the pub and the place to enjoy the best entertainment around. OPENING HOURS 11am - 1.30am : Mon-Sun
New Chef Geoff Tysons opens June 25th. We loved their Sunday brunch in DC before seing West Side Story musical. Good luck!
B&O Building on the corner of Charles and Baltimore Streets, B&O American Brasserie will open adjacent to the new Hotel Monaco, Baltimore. for business this July with Chef E. Michael Reidt – named one of the country’s “Best New Chefs” in 2001 by Food & Wine magazine.The restaurant, which is the first Maryland location for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, will feature an approachable American brasserie menu, a bustling bar with a selection of artisanal wines and classic hand crafted cocktails and a bustling exhibition kitchen with a pizza oven and counter seating.
Designed by The Puccini Group, the restaurant will showcase contemporary design elements against a backdrop of time-honored architectural features. Playing off the original Beaux Arts architecture of the building, guests at B&O American Brasserie will feel as if they’ve been transported back to the grandeur and opulence experienced by railway travelers in 1906.
WILL YOU use it or eat fushi or kushi? Comment below! New Baltimore Water Taxi Harbor Connector in Baltimore--The Baltimore City Department of Transportation has announced the launch of the first route of the Water Taxi Harbor Connector. The first route begins service on Monday, May 4 between the water taxi dock at Frederick Douglass-Isaac-Myers Maritime Museum (Maritime Park) in Fells Point and the Tide Point Pier in South Baltimore. This free service will operate approximately every fifteen minutes from 7 am to 7 pm on weekdays.
The second route, to be launched later this summer, will run from the Canton Waterfront Park to Tide Point. This service will also run approximately every 25 minutes, from 7 am to 7 pm on weekdays.
In conjunction with the start of the Downtown Circulator buses this June, the new services will link Fells Point, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Penn Station, The University of Maryland Medical Center, fringe parking areas, and other transportation hubs, landmarks and attractions in and around City Center and the Inner Harbor.
LINGANOREWINE CELLARS has some fabulous summer wine and music festivals. Next ROCK n ROLL Wine FESTIVAL June 27/28! For a free 2-tickets to this FESTIVAL: friend us on facebook and twitter CITYPEEK Patti (fb) and CITYPEEKpatti twitter and say-i want to go to Linganore!
Also tune into my friends' Ginny Robertson & Ann Quasman's WOMEN TALK LIVE every Saturday 6-6:55 PM on WCBM 680 AM.
NATIONAL TASTE OF ELEGANCE (celebrating pork) comes to BALTIMORE c/o HOWARD GREENBLATT: This year the 30 regional winning chefs will come together to compete for the Chef Par Excellence, right here in Baltimore, MD on June 29,2009 at the Baltimore Renaissance Harbor Place Hotel. The evening reception begins at 6 :30 p.m. with awards at 8:30 p.m. in the Maryland Ballroom. Earlier in the day the 8 finalists will be selected at a luncheon for the chefs and families. CITYPEEK Patti may attend this as well. Those 8 chefs will compete in the evening and judged in front of the audience. On Monday afternoon, June 29, 2009 the media will be treated to lunch and a live cooking demo at the Baltimore International College where BALTIMORE's JAMES BEARD nominee Chef Nancy Longo will be working with underutilized cuts and lunch will be served to all in attendance. At the evening reception, SLOANE BROWNE will be the MC & there will be a section for the media, local and national. I have reserved a seat in that section ohh-la-la.
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