The Italian restaurant and mozzarella bar will be located in a former Dean & Deluca space in Georgetown
Osteria Mozza, Nancy Silverton’s award-winning restaurant in Los Angeles, is opening a location in Washington, D.C., this fall as part of a collaboration with Starr Restaurants.
The new 20,000-square-foot venue will be located in a former Dean & Deluca space in the Georgetown Park retail development, and will serve traditional Italian food in the main dining room and two private dining areas.
Additionally, the restaurant will feature a marble-topped mozzarella bar, just as the original L.A. location does, featuring a buffalo mozzarella tasting as well as plated dishes with mozzarella and burrata, which is mozzarella stuffed with cream and often mozzarella shreds. Items at the L.A. mozzarella bar include buffalo mozzarella and garlic toast with anchovies, burrata with bacon and marinated escarole, and smoked buffalo mozzarella with prosciutto.
Unique to the D.C. location will be a retail market with olive oil, spices, produce, and jarred and tinned Italian foods selected by Silverton.
Silverton founded Osteria Mozza in 2007 in collaboration with Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali. It won a James Beard Foundation Restaurant & Chef Award for Best Chef in the Pacific, Matt Molina, in 2012, and Outstanding Pastry Chef, Dahlia, Narvaez, in 2016. Silverton herself won the Beard Award for Outstanding Chef in 2014, and was inducted into Nation’s Restaurant News’ MenuMasters Hall of Fame this year.
Osteria Mozza D.C.’s menu will include Focaccia di Recco, a crispy flatbread stuffed with stracchino cheese that is reportedly a favorite of Starr Restaurants founder Stephen Starr, as well as Nancy’s Favorite Trio, which is buffalo mozzarella covered with Cantabrian anchovies and sundried tomatoes and peppers.
Also on the menu will be Silverton’s take on a Ceasar salad, and tagliatelle pasta with oxtail ragù.
The beverage program will focus on Italian wines as well as what the restaurant calls “a highly curated selection of Champagnes.”
The restaurant has been designed by Roman and Williams, a design studio based in New York City, and features a solarium, arched windows facing M Street, terrazzo floors, marble tables and bar tops, dark wood, and exposed brick.
Philadelphia-based Starr Restaurants was founded by Stephen Starr in 1995 and now encompasses 40 restaurants in Philadelphia, New York City, and D.C., as well as the Florida communities of Miami, Bal Harbour, and Fort Lauderdale. Starr himself won the Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur in 2017.
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