One way to see the world is to book a table at Chloe. Roasted sweet corn spritzed with lime and scattered with queso fresco puts me on a street corner in Mexico City. Springy Bavarian [...]
As the capital of the United States, Washington is a busy city at all times of the year. Everyone knows that it’s a hub for government and a home to American neoclassical architecture, but it’s [...]
I ate over a thousand restaurant dishes this year (really, I counted!). Here are the ten that I haven’t stopped thinking about, in no particular order. Lobster and Grits at the Dabney Now that we [...]
Washington, DC native, Chef Haidar Karoum’s passion for food developed at a young age while traveling Europe with his mother and father. This passion eventually lead him to study at the Culinary Institute of America. [...]
In Washington D.C., the reign of stodgy, stuffy steakhouses is thankfully a thing of the past. Because in the past few years alone, our nation's capital has nabbed several coveted titles, including Bon Appetit's Restaurant City [...]
Where to eat right now around the DMV More often than not, tipsters, readers, friends and family of Eater have one question: "Where should I eat right now?" Restaurant obsessives want to know what's new, what's [...]
“I’m a true believer in gut feelings,” says Haidar Karoum, chef-owner of the new Chloe in the Navy Yard. In preparation for the worldly restaurant he named after his oldest niece, Karoum scouted numerous neighborhoods, eventually signing [...]
Chef Haidar Karoum’s first solo restaurant arrives Friday, January 5 The food at Chloe, the debut restaurant award-winning chef turned restaurateur Haidar Karoum is formally unveiling Friday, January 5, bounces between the Middle East and [...]
One of Washington’s top culinary talents has been off the radar over the past year and a half. Chef Haidar Karoum left his post overseeing Estadio, Doi Moi, and Proof back in April 2016, but all the while, he’s been patiently plotting [...]
Waterfront Views The Potomac River was once so polluted that President Lyndon Johnson called it a “national disgrace.” But after decades of cleanup efforts, DC’s river-fronts have instead become rosé-sipping territory. In recent years, the [...]
