The Recipes and Styles That Made Rose's Luxury Our No. 1 Best New Restaurant
Rose's Luxury, the best new restaurant of 2014, is all about family, hospitality, and the crunchiest, most addictive fried chicken you'll ever eat.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott2/14Dinner and a Show
Diners at the chef's counter have a front-row seat on the kitchen action. The counter is just one of six distinctive dining spaces (seven, if you count the sidewalk seating) in the renovated row house across the street from Washington's Marine Barracks buildings.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott4/14'We Do Not Take Reservations'
Rose's doesn't take reservations, so how do you get a table? "Weekends are crazy," says Silverman. "Come before 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and you're pretty much guaranteed a seat." Or, do like 20–50 people do every night: Show up at 5 p.m. (30 minutes before opening) and join the line.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott6/14Momma Loves You
Flowers are everywhere at Rose's, from the beautiful arrangements that Silverman's mother does three days a week for the dining room, to edible flowers like these, which show up as garnishes.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott8/14Backyard Dining
The back dining room looks up three stories to skylights. When Silverman renovated the building, he essentially enclosed the backyard, leaving all the concrete exterior walls, with their great patina, intact as interior walls.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott9/14Berry Fresh
The food at Rose's is borderless. Inspiration comes from the Mediterranean, Mexico, Southeast Asia—pretty much everywhere, so long as the ingredients work with the seasons. In that kind of environment, the kitchen is just as likely to come up with a dish like Spaghetti with Strawberry-Tomato Sauce (with summer's best berries) as it is a pork butt marinated in peach juice.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott11/14Gnocchi
Cutting gnocchi in the prep kitchen as Rose's prepares for another night of full tables.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott13/14Awesome.
A server's warm welcome for a guest at the chef's counter. Talk with chef Silverman and he'll say that Rose's is just as dedicated to the "making-people-happy-business" as it is to the restaurant business.
Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott14/14This Man Is Your Friend
"We're trying to make friends with everyone who walks in the door." —Aaron Silverman
