The concept is the experimental younger sister to chef Amy Brandwein’s ltalian restaurant, Centrolina.

Written by DCist Contributors Gayle S. Putrich and Mike Roscoe Awards season: long gone in Hollywood; just getting started for D.C.’s restaurants. If you don’t believe us, just ask Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve, Eamonn’s, and the forthcoming Majestic. Armstrong has been named a contender for two awards in as many days: Best Mid-Atlantic Chef from the James Beard Foundation on Monday and now Chef of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington….

Redskins-Cowboys. Ali-Frazier. Potter-Voldemort. Morimoto-Donna? Last night on the Food Network’s Iron Chef America, Galileo’s Roberto Donna avenged his very lopsided defeat in March 2005 at the hands of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto by scoring a victory over his cooking rival in “Battle Squid.” Much as then-challenger and now-Iron Chef Bobby Flay surprisingly defeated Morimoto in a rematch on the original Iron Chef show after initially having been quietly humiliated by Morimoto, Donna — who did…

Remember the Galileo deal we told you about a few weeks ago? Well, the reviews have started to come in, and though it’s crucial to understand that Galileo has a new chef de cuisine, reactions to the new Galileo are generally mixed. After hearing from two distinctly different groups — a party of seventeen active on the food message boards and the report of one DCist of her experience with three companions — the words…

Have you had a chance to eat at Galileo? No, not the lunch grill — the real deal, inside? Well, if fear of breaking the bank has made dining at Galileo a tad difficult for you, Roberto Donna has decided to make the decision easier: for the rest of the summer, food and wine in the main Galileo dining room (not the Lab or the Osteria) will be half price on Sunday evenings and for…