{"id":15204606,"date":"2026-07-10T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/anju-and-chiko-team-is-taking-over-food-and-beverage-at-the-line-dc-hotel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:34:40","slug":"anju-and-chiko-team-is-taking-over-food-and-beverage-at-the-line-dc-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/anju-and-chiko-team-is-taking-over-food-and-beverage-at-the-line-dc-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Anju and Chiko Team Is Taking Over Food and Beverage at the Line DC Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In years past, the Line DC hotel in Adams Morgan was home to <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2018\/06\/06\/our-critic-eats-her-way-through-the-line-hotel-brothers-and-sisters-a-rakes-progress-spoken-english\/\">marquee restaurants<\/a> from top chefs such as Woodberry Kitchen&#8217;s Spike Gjerde and Maketto&#8217;s Erik Bruner-Yang. But following a rough stretch that culminated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2025\/01\/23\/elon-musk-did-not-bid-on-the-line-hotel-in-adams-morgan\/\">foreclosure sale<\/a> last year, the hotel is hoping to become a dining destination again with a new food &amp; beverage partner. DC chefs Danny Lee and Scott Drewno of Fried Rice Collective\u2014the restaurant group behind <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/100-very-best-restaurants-2026\/anju-4\/\">Anju<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2023\/01\/25\/100-very-best-restaurants-chiko\/\">Chiko<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2023\/02\/28\/dcs-best-breakfast-sandwich-pop-up-is-becoming-an-all-day-restaurant\/\">I Egg You<\/a>\u2014will oversee the hotel&#8217;s culinary operations and eventually open a new ground-floor restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The Line DC hotel opened nearly a decade ago as a major dining hotspot. Barack and Michelle Obama were among the <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2018\/02\/08\/a-rakes-progress-line-hotel-dc-spike-gjerde\/\">earliest diners<\/a> at Gjerde&#8217;s hyper-local restaurant A Rake&#8217;s Progress in 2018. Then came Bruner-Yang&#8217;s East-meets-West dining room <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2018\/06\/06\/our-critic-eats-her-way-through-the-line-hotel-brothers-and-sisters-a-rakes-progress-spoken-english\/\">Brothers and Sisters<\/a> and standing-only <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2020\/02\/12\/100-very-best-restaurants-79-spoken-english\/\">Spoken English<\/a>, which eventually morphed into all-day, Japanese-inspired comfort food spot <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.eater.com\/2020\/7\/22\/21334057\/cafe-spoken-japanese-cafe-opening-menu-photos-omurice-line-hotel-erik-bruner-yang-adams-morgan-d-c\">Cafe Spoken<\/a>. But all of those dining venues closed shortly following the pandemic.\u00a0 The hotel&#8217;s current dining venue, No Goodbyes, is mostly notable for its cocktail program overseen by bar talent Lukas Smith.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2025, it was rumored that Elon Musk wanted to buy the hotel. But the only bid in a foreclosure auction was from the hotel&#8217;s own lender, <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2025\/01\/23\/elon-musk-did-not-bid-on-the-line-hotel-in-adams-morgan\/\">Acore Capital<\/a>. The hotel is still managed by Soho House &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, details are scarce about the new restaurant from Fried Rice Collective, or when it might open. In the meantime, the focus is on &#8220;operational leadership and collaboration with the existing team,&#8221; according to a press release. Stay tuned for more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2026\/07\/10\/anju-and-chiko-team-is-taking-over-food-and-beverage-at-the-line-hotel\/\">Anju and Chiko Team Is Taking Over Food and Beverage at the Line DC Hotel<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\">Washingtonian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonian.com\/2026\/07\/10\/anju-and-chiko-team-is-taking-over-food-and-beverage-at-the-line-hotel\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=anju-and-chiko-team-is-taking-over-food-and-beverage-at-the-line-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News \u2013 World \u2013 Washington DC \u2013 rss.app1 \u2192 manual entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In years past, the Line DC hotel in Adams Morgan was home to marquee restaurants from top chefs such as Woodberry Kitchen&#8217;s Spike Gjerde and Maketto&#8217;s Erik Bruner-Yang. 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