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Citronelle has plans to move to the Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton from its current Georgetown location. In a mad rush to break the news first, Don Rockwell from DC Dining and Tim Carman from Washington City Paper reported the news within minutes of each other.

The highly-rated restaurant had been caught up in a swirl of rumors amid the planned renovation of Hotel Latham resulting in the restaurant’s scaled back hours. As Carman mentions, the deal has yet to be signed, so there is still the possibility that this could go the way of the Gordon Ramsay deal. The Tysons Corner space has been vacant since Maestro, the restaurant helmed by Fabio Trabocchi, closed in July 2007.