Washington, DC — by commission
A restaurant
without walls
Atelier Limardo is summoned, not visited. Chef Enrique Limardo and his team cook in your home for a single evening. They then leave, but the memories stay.
You're not buying a dinner. You're witnessing the creation of something new.
Enrique Limardo, Michelin-starred chef
What arrives
Cooking like this away from a restaurant takes roughly forty things. All of them come with us.
Chef and team
Enrique Limardo cooks, and the team is one he picks himself. They arrive with the kitchen, the tools and the service. Nothing is subcontracted.
The creative process
Dishes are developed for your evening and finished in front of you. You watch the work happen instead of receiving its result.
The drinks
Wine and cocktails are built alongside the menu rather than chosen after it, and the same team pours. A bottle you have been keeping can shape where the food goes.
Your space
Your home becomes the dining room — the light lowered, music chosen for the night. No restaurant can put you this close to the person cooking, which is the reason this exists.
Photographed at Imperfecto and Seven Reasons — Chef Limardo's restaurants in Washington, DC.
The chef
Enrique Limardo
A Michelin-starred chef from Caracas who changed how America cooks Venezuelan food — and who now, privately, will cook you a menu that exists for one night only.
He began studying cooking in Venezuela in 1997 and finished in Spain, in the kitchens of Joan Roca, Ramon Freixa, Xavier Pellicer, Joan Pique and Carles Gaig. He came back with classical European technique and no interest in using it to cook European food.
In Washington he built Seven Reasons, then Imperfecto, Saga, Quadrant and Surreal — five restaurants in six years, a Michelin star, a James Beard nomination, and a national argument that modern Venezuelan cooking belongs in the same room as anything else. Critics have called him the person who brought it to the United States.
More on Enrique LimardoBringing the fun back to fine dining.
- Michelin Star2022
- James Beard Award, semifinalist2023
- Best Restaurant in Washington, DC — The Washington Post2019
- Best New Restaurant in the Americas — Esquire2019
- Trained under Joan Roca, Ramon Freixa, Xavier Pellicer, Carles GaigSpain
The commission
Eight steps, and only one of them is dinner.
There is no menu to choose from and no date to reserve. An evening is built from nothing, which takes longer and is the entire point.
The commission, step by step
One night
For one evening, your kitchen belongs to him.
It lasts a few hours. Then the kitchen is packed, the glasses are washed, and by morning your home is your home again.
Begin
Tell us about the evening you're imagining.
This is the first step of the commission. A few questions so we know who you are and what you are hoping for — Andrea reads every one, and replies personally, usually within two business days.
If you would rather ask a question than begin a commission, write to Andrea directly. Or read the questions people ask first.