Before opening Requin on the Southwest waterfront in October, Mike Isabella tasked its eventual chef, Michael Rafidi, to include on the menu “a good roast chicken, escargots and foie gras,” recalls the serial restaurateur and [...]
Restaurateur Mike Isabella’s new French restaurant debuts October 26 Fans of French cuisine with a twist should make a point of exploring the new Requin at the Wharf, the latest high-profile restaurant to join the slowly [...]
Requin opens Thursday with a modern menu from Arroz chef Michael Rafidi. When restaurateur Mike Isabella opened Arroz in March, the finer-dining Spanish spot upped the culinary cache of his ever-growing empire—one that includes trendy small plates spots, stadium [...]
Barbara Harrison tours chef and restaurateur Mike Isabella's newest restaurant -- Requin at the Wharf. Watch the video >>
WASHINGTON — Mike Isabella fanned himself with a hard hat as he stood on a construction site on the bank of the Potomac that workers were frantically trying to turn into a contemporary French restaurant. [...]
Arroz head chef Michael Rafidi has been making culinary waves in his native Washington since leaving RN74 in San Francisco for restaurateur Mike Isabella’s modern Spanish spot. His cooking helped land the eatery in Washingtonian’s top ten new restaurants of the [...]
Changes are in the works for restaurateur Mike Isabella and chef Jennifer Carroll’s French-Mediterranean restaurant in the Mosaic District. Starting next year, Requinwill undergo renovations and transform into a casual French brasserie. Requin, which means “shark” in French, began as [...]
Requin: Empire builder Mike Isabella is finally bringing seafood-forward Requin across the river to D.C., though he and chef Jennifer Carroll are making significant changes to the restaurant they’ve cultivated in Mosaic District. “It’s going to be [...]
