'Top Chef Star' To Open Downtown DC Restaurant

WASHINGTON, DC — Top Chef star and Petworth native Brian Hill is opening his new restaurant, Comfort Kitchen, in downtown DC in a few weeks.

Patrons can expect a small menu consisting of unique spins on classic bar food like the signature golden fried chicken sliders, hand-rolled homemade turkey meatballs and slow roasted shredded beef BBQ sliders.

According to Eater DC, the restaurant will also hold boozy brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Hill said he is planning creative cocktails such as sparkling wine spiked with roasted cherries.

Hill appeared on the first season of Bravo's hit show Top Chef, as well as Spike's Bar Rescue. He was also on the reality show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills and is known to have cook for Mary J. Blige, Eddie Murphy and Sean Combs.

In 2010, Hill launched a "Chef Brian's Comfort Truck" in Los Angeles. Although the food truck has since closed, Yelp reviewers gave high praise for the sliders and the fried tortilla chips dubbed "crack chips."

Comfort Kitchen will open at 1020 19th St. NW., although there is not a specific opening date released yet.

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