CNN – The Restaurant

Gossip columnist Karen Feld wrote about her dinner conversation with Ted Turner yesterday and his plans to expand his restaurant chain into D.C.

The man who revolutionized the news business with CNN is now taking upscale casual dining to a new level and hopes to have the best small restaurant chain in America. Turner’s eatery has two locations in Northern Virginia – the third, at Ballston Point in Arlington, opens on Halloween – and is looking at the Seventh Street corridor for his first D.C. location (he has 42 in the country so far). “It’s an energy zone,” he said. “The whole world likes the great American West.” As usual, this man thinks big. Europe may be next.

Crossfire-like yelling across the dinner table will not be tolerated.

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