Fish Store, Scotland’s seafood cease that counts the King Charles III as a fan, will make its approach to the Wharf in early April at 610 Water Road SW.
The restaurant and fishmonger was awarded a Bib Gourmand from the Nice Britain and Eire Michelin Information, together with this 12 months’s service award, declaring Fish Store “totally pleasant” and providing “great-value cooking.”
Of the D.C. location, “It’ll be a Yankee model of its adorned restaurant in Scotland that’s beloved by King Charles,” per a rep. Following the go to from King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Conde Nast Traveller topped Fish Store one of many greatest new eating places on this planet final 12 months.
That is the primary enlargement of Fish Store run by the high-powered artwork world hospitality group Artfarm primarily based in London. Iwan and Manuela Wirth — of mega fashionable Hauser & Wirth Gallery fame — are behind the group that had opened Manuela in Soho in October, simply steps from the Hauser & Wirth outpost. Manuela New York has its personal distinct menu, with customized artwork for the house. It marks a wave of openings in New York bolstered by gallerists for an area fitted to consumer dinners.
Very like the New York location that pulled in an area Buvette alum to run the Soho spot, for the D.C. location, Artfarm tapped two native trade vets to guide the cost: chef de delicacies Ria Montes (Estuary, No Goodbyes) and director of operations Angie Duran (Duke’s Grocery, Centrolina). They’ll be steering a menu which may embody dishes like crab crumpet and lobster taglierini. In contrast to Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips close by, a spokesperson says Fish Store “received’t be a basic British chippy, however a seafood restaurant dedicated to sourcing native fish.”
The primary U.S. restaurant from Artfarm opened in 2017 with Manuela in downtown Los Angeles, in an city farm house with dwell chickens, with the restaurant connected to the gallery. That very same 12 months, Jonathan Gold reviewed the restaurant for the Los Angeles Occasions. “You may count on a restaurant the place the meals is as conceptual because the artwork, boundaries as crumbly because the unfinished partitions,” he wrote. “Throughout the context, Manuela’s sharply outlined homeyness… could also be avant-garde in its personal manner.”
The identical part of the Wharf will quickly welcome Service provider’s Marina — a brand new satellite tv for pc bar from the D.C. workforce behind Chinese language restaurant Philippe Chow.
