"Are you the wife?" The wife. Maria Trabocchi gets that question a lot. 

Six days a week, Maria — blond, 5-foot-9 before she slips a foot into her high-heeled ankle boots, as tan as if she's just flown back from Tulum, Mexico — flits between the dining rooms of Fiola, Fiola Mare and Casa Luca, the trio of Washington restaurants she owns with her chef-husband, Fabio.

For the record, yes, she's the wife. But she's more than that. He may rule the kitchen, but Maria reigns over everything else. Such as deciding who on this Saturday night will score one of Fiola Mare's coveted tables overlooking the Potomac in Georgetown and which of the expected 350 diners she will gratify with a stop-by.

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