Ris Lacoste is a top D.C. chef and food writer who is building her own restaurant in downtown Washington. Lacoste trained at Anne Willan’s La Varenne — Ecole de Cuisine in Paris before starting her career in New England and then coming the Washington, where she helped open 21 Federal and Kinkead’s. Her most recent post was head chef at Georgetown’s 1789 restaurant.

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