by Jameelah Mullen
March 10, 2026
Carla Corridor will merge meals, artwork, and tradition for the final word informal eating expertise.
Movie star chef Carla Corridor will quickly open Bumblebirds, a fried rooster and cocktail bar within the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The restaurant can have its grand opening occasion on March 14, the place the primary 100 prospects will obtain free sandwiches.
Corridor will usher within the spring season with a Southern‑impressed menu that includes crispy fried rooster sandwiches in your selection of brioche bun or biscuit. On the bar, visitors can get pleasure from craft cocktails, curated by mixologist AJ Johnson, corresponding to an elderflower julep or a sorrel‑and‑strawberry margarita.
Corridor stated she drew inspiration from her grandmother, whom she calls the “culinary matriarch” of her household. The previous Prime Chef contestant goals to convey her grandmother’s Southern allure to D.C.
“I need them to stroll in and really feel like, ‘Wow, this seems like dwelling, and it feels vivid and heat. And I really feel like it is a place the place I need to hang around. I really feel prefer it’s a spot the place I really feel a way of group and pleasure,” she says. “I believe greater than something, I need folks to really feel the enjoyment,” the longtime D.C. resident instructed Individuals.
Positioned at 303 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, this quaint eatery showcases Corridor’s design imaginative and prescient and options her personal paper‑quilt artwork impressed by her grandmother. “I assumed I had misplaced my grandmother’s quilt after 20 years,” she stated.
Corridor, after misplacing the heirloom, determined to recreate it utilizing paper. After recreating the 9-by-3-foot artwork set up, Corridor discovered the unique quilt.
“It’s extra than simply showcasing a chunk of artwork; it’s about displaying different sides of my creativity,” she stated. “And in addition quilts are about group and bringing folks collectively.”
Quilting isn’t the one approach that Corridor is increasing her creative wings. The previous speak present host will star in Carla Corridor — Please Underestimate Me, a one-woman present premiering in June, as she leans into her love of theater and her childhood dream of being the “Black Carol Burnett.”
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