citronelle to leave dc

the rumour is that Citronelle has plans to move to the Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton from its current Georgetown location. what a pain [she says living in dc with no intentions of driving all the way out there for dinner]. i have never got comfortable with the idea of dining in a shopping mall. call me weird but... the highly-rated restaurant had been caught up in a swirl of rumors amid the planned renovation of Hotel Latham resulting in the restaurant's scaled back hours. the deal has yet to be signed, so there is still the possibility that this could go pearshaped. regardless of where the restaurants ends up geographically, hopefully this won't be a 2 plus years "renovation" like Laboratorio del Galileo...