WASHINGTON — Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck says he is actively looking for a location to open his second D.C. restaurant.
While the restaurateur and early Food Network star did not confirm specific details for the restaurant, he said the second location will likely be a Spago or a CUT.
“We don’t want to make so many different brands,” Puck told WTOP in an interview on Tuesday.
Spago is the name of Puck’s first restaurant, which he opened in West Hollywood in 1982. (He later moved the location to Beverly Hills in 1997.) The restaurant received two Michelin stars in 2008 and 2009 in the Los Angeles Michelin Guide.
“It’s our flagship restaurant; it’s like the mother of all our other ones,” Puck said about Spago.
The menu includes everything from fresh seafood (squid ink garganelli with Maine lobster, bottarga, summer squash and basil), to farmers market finds (cavaillon melon with mozzarella “burrata,” prosciutto and aged balsamic) and meat (Snake River Farm’s American “Wagyu” New York steak with potato-bacon terrine and red wine sauce).
CUT is Puck’s steakhouse concept, which he originally opened in 2006 in the Beverly Wilshire. Both Spago and CUT have multiple locations across the world.
Puck opened his first D.C. restaurant, The Source, in 2007. The Chinese-influenced restaurant, attached to the Newseum, recently reopened after a monthlong renovation.
