Mirabelle, a French-influenced fixture for prix fixe meals near the White House since 2017, will not reemerge from a pandemic-induced closure. Instead, owner Hakan Ilhan is flipping the glitzy space at 900 16th Street NW into an Italian restaurant with a more approachable price point.

Il Piatto, which means “the dish” in Italian, is expected to open in August. "Comfort food is never out of style, and during the pandemic there was [even] more evidence of that,” Ilhan says. “We felt that Italian is something people can relate to very easily.”