Jeff Black plans to open his Empire in December

By Tim Carman, Food Reporter for The Washington Post

Jeff Black, the restaurateur who has given us such places at BlackSalt in the Palisades and Addie’sin Rockville, really hates it when journalists and bloggers refer to his expanding restaurant “empire.” It’s kind of hard to blame him: Just Google “Jeff Black” and “restaurant empire,” and check out those results.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

That’s right: Nearly 5,000 results by my search.“They always say, ‘Jeff’s empire is growing bigger,’ and I hate that,” Black says this afternoon over lunch. “It gets under my skin.”

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