Look at the new Michelin Restaurant Guide for DC. Look how it shines for Georgetown. And everything that one restaurant does. And it was called Yellow.
For those of you not hearing the last paragraph in the voice of Chris Martin, let me try again: the vaunted Michelin guide group has taken a break from making tires and updated it list of DC restaurants that make its grade. And ten spots have been added to the elite list, including Georgetown’s Yellow.
The press release describes Yellow as:
Chef/owner Michael Rafidi and team are behind this daytime casual concept in Georgetown where Levantine cooking takes center stage thanks to a wood-burning oven. It’s always humming here, where long lines form for pastries, breakfast sandwiches or shashuka in the morning and pita sandwiches, spreads and sides (creamy labne with charred corn, urfa chili crisp and smoked feta, anyone?). Fluffy pitas filled with chicken shawarma, Palestinian pickles and green tatbili labne, or tender lamb with smoked peppers, feta and toum are popular. Just try not finishing the batata tots, or golden-brown potatoes with shawarma spices and urfa sauce. To finish, a brown butter and cinnamon cookie, Turkish coffee brownie or soft serve are compelling choices.
(That sounds like it was actually written by a human being. Which would be an odd observation to make but for the fact that the rest of the Michelin press release sounds suspiciously AI-generated.)
It’s quite something that Yellow has made this list apparently even before they added their new not-pizza dinner options. Honestly I can’t remember a new restaurant making quite as big a splash in the neighborhood recently as Yellow has.
The release does not say whether any of these new restaurants have received stars or are just being added to Michelin’s Bib Gourmand honorable mention list. I would be surprised if Yellow were actually awarded a full star, but you never know.
With this inclusion, Yellow joins Das, Fiola Mare, Reverie (which is still closed after a fire last year), 1789 and its neighbor Lutece to represent Georgetown in the guide.
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