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Returning chef eyes
return to glory days
By Bill Walsh
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Todd Eisenhauer hit the ground running when he joined Napoleon's restaurant in January. Many another chef might not have been so quick out of the gate, given the building’s quirky arrangement of levels and maze-like connections among dining rooms.
But this is an encore appearance for Eisenhauer, who was last here when the 21st century was fairly new. One of his paramount goals is to restore the Warrenton restaurant to the popularity it enjoyed back then.
Eisenhauer left Napoleon's for a five-year stint at Griffin Tavern in Flint Hill, returning when recent Napoleon’s Chef Tommy Adrian left for another opportunity.
"This was one of the places w’here I felt that the owners...had done an injustice by taking it completely to fine dining,” Eisenhauer said last week. "It was always set up to have the two different restaurants,” he said, and the returning chef and now part owner has been determined to take advantage of the building’s challenging construction to restore two — actually, make that three — separate dining experiences.
“When my wife ILiz] and I came in, we decided that we had to make a pub again [on the groundfloor level I, so we changed it to Josephine’s Pub. We
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