Adorable chef Giada De Laurentiis is coming out with a new cookbook this month, and making two stops in D.C. to promote it. The book, “Weeknights with Giada: Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner,” comes out March 27, with De Laurentiis conducting a signing at the Arlington location of Sur La Table at noon on March 31, with a follow-up talk at Sixth & I Synagogue in at 8 p.m. that night.
It’s probably best that De Laurentiis’ appearance comes after Mike Isabella‘s announcement Tuesday that he plans to open a third and fourth restaurant in D.C. You see, the last time De Laurentiis was in town she accidentally let the cat out of the bag that Isabella was opening a second restaurant, Bandolero, in Georgetown. Her admission messed up team Isabella’s carefully crafted plan to give an exclusive to the Washington Post’s Tom Sietsema.
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This time Sietsema got his scoop, reporting Tuesday morning (a full nine minutes before the rest of the press got the details) that Isabella would be opening Kapnos, a Greek place that has long been rumored to be coming to the 14th street corridor. There’s also plans to open up a sandwich shop, called G, next door.
