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Inside Kapnos Taverna
By Sara Rush Wirth, Senior Editor, Restaurant Business, Aug. 13, 2015 ‘Value engineering’ helped Top Chef’s Mike Isabella save $250,000. “You start with the dream, then you see the budget,” says Mike Isabella, chef-owner of [...]
Hospitality Construction Services Completes Pepita Restaurant in Ballston
From Designer Pages, January 20, 2016 Constructed by Rob Mescolotto and his Washington D.C.-based restaurant general contracting firm, Hospitality Construction Services, Pepito is the latest restaurant concept from Mike Isabella. The Ballston-based, travel-inspired Mexican cantina is the third [...]
FSR Magazine Features The Dabney, Hospitality Construction Services & Edit Labs
The below article is from February 12, 2016 FSR magazine Jeremiah Langhorne’s debut restaurant, The Dabney, has opened on the historic 9th Street in Blagden Alley, in Washington, D.C. The Dabney takes inspiration from [...]
Friends of Eater Name Their Favorite Restaurant Newcomers. Congrats to The Dabney, Yona & Kapnos Taverna
By Missy Frederick What was the best new restaurant of 2015? As per tradition, Eater asked a group of journalists, bloggers and friends of the site to weigh in on the year in food. [...]
Union Kitchen Expands to Washington, D.C.’s Ivy City
Washington, D.C.-based restaurant general contractor, Hospitality Construction Services, was recently tapped by Jonas Singer and Cullen Gilchrist to construct a second location for the area’s well-known food incubator, Union Kitchen. Rob Mescolotto, founder and [...]
100 VERY BEST RESTAURANT 2016: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DABNEY & MIKE ISABELLA
By Todd Kliman, Anna Spiegel, Ann Limpert and Cynthia Hacinli Few kitchens are equipped with 19th-century cookbooks or a Colonial-style hearth, but that’s just part of the reason the Dabney has set itself apart [...]