Washington, D.C
The Wharf InterContinental Is Finally Getting a Real Restaurant Again
A prime dining space located on the 50 yard line of D.C.’s glitzy Southwest Waterfront development that has struggled to keep a marquee restaurant has snagged a new chef to lead its latest attempt at success.
InterContinental Washington, D.C. just tapped tenured chef Jeffrey Williams to lead a new flagship restaurant at the foot of the fancy hotel. The team tells Eater the goal is to open by the end of the year, and the 152-seat, gold-toned space won’t undergo any major renovations (801 Wharf Street SW).
Details on the to-be-named restaurant are slim for now. The cuisine plans to swing “modern American,” per a release, with a hyper-seasonal menu centered around homemade pastas and mid-Atlantic ingredients sourced from local farms and waterways.
The Philadelphia native returns to D.C. with 15 years of culinary experience, starting at InterContinental’s sibling D.C. hotel the Willard . He went west to work in Los Angeles kitchens like Lillie’s Beverly Hills, Jane Q, STK, and Tin Roof Bistro.
The D.C. hotel’s newly announced project marks a fresh chapter for a storied space that famously lost two top-rated restaurants in just six years, in part, due to a (now-settled) dispute over how the hotel allegedly underpaid its hospitality workers.
The posh, 278-room hotel opened in 2017 with culinary star Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean hit Kith/Kin, earning him the the 2019 James Beard award for Rising Star Chef of the Year. He suddenly resigned in 2020, in hopes of seeking an ownership stake in his next venture. (Onwuachi just made a big Southwest Waterfront comeback at Salamander hotel’s Dōgon.)
Chef Kevin Tien’s Vietnamese fine-dining destination Moon Rabbit moved in that fall, quickly earning Tien a James Beard semifinalist nod as Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic and Food & Wine readers naming it one of the 10 best restaurants in the country. Tien announced plans to part ways with IHG in early 2023, and the restaurant abruptly closed that May.
After allegations that hotel management misled Moon Rabbit staff about proper compensation practices, D.C. recently ordered IHG to pay Moon Rabbit employees $126,650. (Tien’s critically acclaimed, now-independently run Moon Rabbit reopened in Penn Quarter this year, and was not involved in the case.) The Wharf’s hotel staffers ultimately won the right to unionize, and the year-old placeholder replacement to Moon Rabbit is generic surf-and-turf spot Dockside Restaurant and Bar.
The space’s latest life as a seasonal American restaurant hopes to stick under its newly named executive chef (third time’s a charm?). Williams comes to town from his most recent executive chef role at Omni’s NOÉ Restaurant & Bar in Los Angeles.
“While I loved the year-round sunshine in California, coming home to D.C.’s four distinct seasons allows for ever-changing menus and dishes that give a true sense of place,” says Williams.
The Food Network winner says he got the bug to cook from his grandfather, who opened a fish market in Philadelphia and ran a community gardening program. His cross-country background also includes stints at Social Club in Miami and Nios in NYC.
The hotel is owned by the developers of the $3.6-billion Wharf project (Hoffman & Associates, Madison Marquette) and Carr Companies.
4 things to know about the weather:
- Abundant sunshine
- Temps slightly cooler than average
- No rain in sight — again
- Mid-week warmup
May is drawing to a dry, comfortable close, in stunning contrast to the very soggy Memorial Day weather we saw last weekend.
That 10-day stretch of rain put a definite dent in our drought, according to the weekly national drought monitor, but it seems that was the end of the improvement for a while: There’s almost no clouds in sight for the DMV for several days.
Enjoy the many hours of sunshine on Saturday. The high pressure coming in from the Hudson Bay brings a stiff north wind, but the day will also be sunny and comfortable, with highs in the mid 70s.
Download the NBC Washington app on iOS and Android to check the weather radar on the go.
The wind will die down after dark, and Sunday morning will be bordering on chilly. Expect widespread mid/upper 40s in most of the D.C. area, with urban centers and bayside communities staying just above 50°. Sunday afternoon will be just a bit warmer, in the mid 70s, but with far less of a breeze.
Highs will be back around 80° for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with overnight lows in the comfy 50s. It’ll be a perfect start to meteorological summer (June/July/August).
QuickCast
TODAY:
Sunshine Abounds, Breezy
Wind: North 10-15mph, Gust to 25 mph
Chance of Rain: 0%
HIGHS: 70° to 75°
TONIGHT:
Clear Skies
Winds Diminish
Wind: Northwest 10-15 mph
Chance Of Rain: 0%
LOWS: 46° to 54°
SUNDAY:
Mostly Sunny Skies
Pleasant Conditions
Light Breeze
Wind: NW 5 – 10 mph
Chance of Rain: 0%
HIGHS: 70° to 76°
MONDAY:
Partly Cloudy
Seasonable
Light Breeze
Wind: West/Northwest 10 mph
Chance of Rain: 0%
HIGHS: 76° to 82°
Sunrise: 5:45 Sunset: 8:26
Average High: 80° Average Low: 63°
Stay with Storm Team4 for the latest forecast. Download the NBC Washington app on iOS and Android to get severe weather alerts on your phone.
WASHINGTON – A man is in critical condition after falling into the Anacostia River in Southwestern Washington, D.C., Friday night.
What we know:
D.C. Fire and EMS reported the rescue effort shortly after 10 p.m. at James Creek Marina in Buzzard Point.
Crews believe a man fell from the dock into the water.
By 10:30 p.m., crews were able to pull the man out of the water.
Paramedics took him to the hospital in critical condition.
What we don’t know:
Officials did not identify the man who was rescued. No other information was immediately available.
The Source: Information in this story is from the D.C. Fire and EMS Department.
Washington, D.C
DC’s baseball team faces potential DOJ probe after exec allegedly admitted to religious discrimination
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FIRST ON FOX — Washington, D.C.’s professional baseball franchise could come under Justice Department scrutiny after a viral video showed a team executive appearing to admit to his religious discrimination against a Christian player.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is urging Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon to investigate alleged religious discrimination against players for the Washington Nationals, according to a letter sent Thursday to and first obtained by Fox News Digital.
The letter comes after Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe published a secretly recorded video of Washington Nationals Director of Community Relations Sean Hudson saying the team does not include pitcher Trevor Williams in certain social media promotion.
He cited the player’s public criticism of another Major League Baseball franchise for hosting a drag group mocking Catholics.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is urging the Department of Justice to investigate alleged religious discrimination within the Washington Nationals organization and across Major League Baseball. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“According to the reporting by James O’Keefe, it appears the Washington Nationals are engaged in unlawful religious discrimination,” Boebert told Fox News Digital in a written statement. “I urge the DOJ to take immediate and decisive action.”
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said they received Boebert’s letter.
“The Department is reviewing the matter and will evaluate all appropriate next steps. As always, we remain committed to enforcing federal law and protecting civil rights,” they told Fox News Digital.
A spokesperson for the Washington Nationals did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hudson, in the clandestine recording, pointed to Williams’ public objections to the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence — a drag group that dresses as nuns — during the team’s 2023 “Pride Night.
The event also drew condemnation from multiple Catholic bishops, who described it as “blasphemous.”
Trevor Williams of the Washington Nationals sits in the dugout before a game against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Wash., on May 28, 2025. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
Williams said he found the group’s anti-Catholic demonstration featuring vulgar caricatures of the crucifixion and sacred rituals to be “deeply offensive,” in an interview with Bishop Robert Barron last year. The professional baseball player said he made the decision with his wife to speak out even though it would put “a target on our back.”
“Baseball stadiums should be a place where everyone feels welcomed, like 100%,” Williams said in the interview. “We should all feel welcomed there. But that was clearly against one certain religion. If you don’t draw the line in the sand, who’s gonna do it?”
According to Hudson, that public criticism of the drag group’s performance later affected Williams’ opportunities at the Nationals franchise.
“Because of that we don’t use him on social [media],” Hudson told an undercover journalist in the video. “When they’re like ‘is a hot dog a sandwich’ and the players come up, we don’t ask him.”
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Boebert said she is concerned that Hudson’s admission could mean the franchise violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on religion and other protected classes.
“Americans of faith should not face professional repercussions for objecting to the mockery of their sacred traditions,” the Colorado Republican said in the letter. “MLB’s privileged legal position should not become a license for exclusionary practices.”
“Sister Unity” and “Sister Dominia” of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were honored on Pride Night before the MLB game between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16, 2023. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)
Hudson, in the video, described himself as “far-left leaning” and nonreligious. Meanwhile, he called Williams “super Catholic.”
The Washington Nationals executive also boasted about a Communist Party poster in his office and mused about pushing redistribution of wealth and other leftist agendas during baseball games at Nationals Park in Southeast Washington, D.C.
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“What a cool opportunity for us [Nationals] to also, be a little bit of like, the voice of reason,” Hudson said. “And a lot of people will tell you when I come to a baseball game, I don’t want to think about that s–t.”
“If you’re a sports fan and we piss you off, where else are you gonna go,” he went on. “I don’t give a sh–t.”
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