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The District’s perpetual-motion restaurant scene is getting another entrance by a high-profile restaurateur from the land of water ice and Tastykakes. Jose Garces, a Philadelphia chef and owner of 15 restaurants, will take over the restaurant space in the Madison Hotel at 15th and M streets NW, the hotel’s parent company, Loews, announced today.

Eater reports that the restaurant, which is scheduled to open in early 2014, will be an Argentinian steakhouse. The new restaurant, which is still unnamed, will replace The Federalist, which is closing this weekend.

In addition to owning restaurants in Philadelphia, Chicago, South Florida, and Arizona, Garces’ celebrity status comes from several appearances on Food Network’s Iron Chef America as both a repeat contestant and as the “Iron Chef” for Latin fusion cuisine.

Philadelphia’s restaurant scene put its tendrils into D.C. earlier this year with the opening of Stephen Starr’s Logan Circle bistro Le Diplomate.