From its Potomac River perch, the recently shuttered Potowmack Landing restaurant on Daingerfield Island just north of Old Town Alexandria featured some of the area’s best views of Washington. Unfortunately, the uninspired fare meant that it often made more sense to pack a picnic and enjoy your lunch and the beautiful scenery from a grassy patch outside the place than to actually eat there.

On April 10, the food will finally match the views when Potowmack Landing pulls a Prince and reinvents itself as Indigo Landing, helmed by new executive chef Bryan Moscatello. Moscatello — who formerly manned the kitchen at Denver’s outstanding Adega Restaurant + Wine Bar (no relation to Silver Spring’s Adega Wine Cellars) and at Cherry Creek’s Mirepoix and who was named one of Food & Wine‘s Best New Chefs in 2003 — has apparently been scouring South Carolina’s Low Country in search of ideas for the restaurant’s Southern-tinged menu.

Although the Washington dining scene may be very close to maxing out on high-end Southern cuisine, Moscatello brings considerable cooking chops to the party. Until Adega closed in August 2005 when its owners refused to let Moscatello buy into the place, his kitchen consistently turned out challenging, complex dishes such as sherry-glazed skate wing, butter-braised halibut cheeks, and juniper/orange-seared venison (this DCist recalls having eaten a fantastic sweetbreads dish there in 2002).

What’s more, under Master Sommeliers Kenneth Fredrickson and Chris Farnum’s watch, Adega developed one of the very best wine lists on either side of the Mississippi. Here’s hoping that Indigo Landing’s management — the Star Restaurant Group (which runs Zola, Red Sage, and the Spy City Café) and Guest Services, Inc. — brings in someone who can fashion a similarly stellar wine program to give Moscatello’s food the liquid partnering it deserves. Can you tell we’re excited?