The Critics

Todd Kliman has some skepticism about Jose Garces' latest project. In his weekly chat, he says of the steakhouse announced today, "This has to be regarded, at the very least, as a mild disappointment...Out-of-town restaurateurs look at DC these days the way free agents not so long ago looked at Dan Snyder's Redskins. As a cash machine. A place to make easy money. They're not, in the main, coming here to do their really interesting work." [Washingtonian]