Chef Cathal Armstrong Irish Pub Open Arlington All-Day Irish Breakfast
Chef Cathal Armstrong's new gastropub, Mattie and Eddie's. Photograph by Lawrence Howard If your notion of an Irish pub is a static menu of fish n’ chips in a shamrock-decked bar, chef Cathal Armstrong wants to change that perception with Mattie and Eddie’s. The James Beard-anointed chef, who championed seasonal Irish cooking over 14 years at Alexandria’s Restaurant Eve, just opened the gastropub with a large outdoor patio in Pentagon City. It takes over the space once occupied by another Irish pub, Sine. “There’s been a thing about Irish food in America for years,” says Arms...
Source: washingtonian.com