Rosario's

Local Restaurateur Is Expanding Rosario — But Is Then Done With D.C. Bureaucracy | Eater DC

"At Rosario in Adams Morgan, I found Andrade settling into upscale Italian service — getting used to tablecloths and the finer points of proper dinner service while diving into wine lists and planning private dining. He leans on chef Logan McGear (whom he brought over from Smoke & Barrel) and bar guru Steve Laycock; McGear has been promoted to oversee menus across Andrade’s restaurants, including the forthcoming Dominion Pint. The biggest successes have been pasta and distinctive dishes like a Caesar salad served in a Parmesan crisp bowl, chicken Parmesan, and a garish-but-perfect meatball bolognese; one notable miss was the Sicilian crab cake (white wine, braised vegetables, and crab mixed in), which didn’t resonate with local diners. We’re building a 20-person private dining room to open at the end of April, adding more handmade pastas such as corzetti and garganelli, a panzanella, and a Tuscan-style strip steak, and we’ve stopped doing our own laundry and will outsource linens." - Rebecca Gale