Smoked by AI · Washington, DC
The people.
The chefs and bar people, owners and locals whose picks shape the Washington, DC list, grouped by what they do for a living. Every name is a real person with a public track record, and each one appears against a room only where they endorsed that room themselves.
Chefs 18Bar people, owners and locals 2
Chefs.
Chefs cook for a living, and a chef who sends you to somebody else's room is putting their own name on it.
- Bertrand ChemelChefno picks on this list yet
French fine dining in Northern Virginia.
- Fabio TrabocchiChefno picks on this list yet
Italian cooking of the Marche and the coast, and handmade pasta.
- Isabel CossChefno picks on this list yet
Pastry and the cooking of Mexico City.
- Jacques HaeringerChefno picks on this list yet
Alsatian French cooking in Northern Virginia.
- Jonathan KrinnChefno picks on this list yet
Scratch-made fine dining in Fairfax.
- José AndrésChefno picks on this list yet
Spanish cooking and the restaurants of the José Andrés Group.
- Kwame OnwuachiChefno picks on this list yet
Afro-Caribbean cooking and the food of the African diaspora.
- Kyle BaileyChefno picks on this list yet
Seafood, Tex-Mex and smoked meats across Long Shot Hospitality's rooms.
- Masako MorishitaChefno picks on this list yet
Japanese comfort food in Washington.
- Matt ConroyChefno picks on this list yet
French bistro and Mexico City cooking.
- Matt HillChefno picks on this list yet
Southern all-day cooking and smoked meats in Arlington.
- Michael RafidiChefno picks on this list yet
Levantine and Palestinian live-fire cooking in Washington.
- Michael StebnerChefno picks on this list yet
French comfort cooking in Loudoun County.
- Patrick O'ConnellChefno picks on this list yet
Country-house fine dining in the Virginia Piedmont.
- Ryan RatinoChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary tasting menus on 14th Street.
- Scott DrewnoChefno picks on this list yet
Chinese and Korean-American cooking.
- Vincent BadieeChefno picks on this list yet
Persian heritage and Italian training in Loudoun fine dining.
- Yuan TangChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary American cooking with Hong Kong and suburban Virginia roots.
Bar people, owners and locals.
Bartenders, owners and locals know the things a review misses, like where the trade actually drinks.
- Dante DattaBartenderno picks on this list yet
Cocktails, especially Indian-inflected ones.
- Rose PreviteOwnerno picks on this list yet
Middle Eastern, Caucasian and North African cooking.