This week, The Gateway Pundit landed an unique interview with Butterworth’s chef-partner, Bart Hutchins, who took us inside his posh, but unpretentious, bistro and bar, attracting White Home employees, Congressional employees, and acquainted MAGA faces, on a near-nightly foundation.
Two blocks from the Capitol constructing in Washington, DC, the supremely fashionable American bistro, Butterworth’s, performs host to among the heaviest energy gamers in conservative politics – and the new, new Capitol Hill hangout solely opened for enterprise in October 2024.
“I’ve at all times wished this property; this constructing. I’ve been on this neighborhood most of my profession, and I really like this neighborhood. I’d at all times come down right here and look within the window,” Bart Hutchins instructed The Gateway Pundit.
“I do know my meat man; I do know the girl that owns the kitchenware retailer; I do know the folks that personal the bookshop. I like understanding all people that I purchase issues from. I like strolling down the road and waving to individuals within the morning.”
“I really like Capitol Hill. It received actually hit by COVID. Capitol Hill became a wasteland.”
“Once I received the prospect to come back do that restaurant, on Capitol Hill, particularly, I stated, ‘Let’s do it, and let’s do a extremely good job of it. Let’s give this place one thing to be happy with.’”
“The individuals working the Free World are proper right here, and they need to be consuming properly. That’s a part of our mission,” Hutchins stated.
Hutchins had lengthy since established himself as an area legend amongst DC’s restauranting elite, however earlier than Hutchins opened Butterworth’s, his enterprise companions needed to lure him away from a rural Minnesota farm, the place Hutchins spent his days writing, in seclusion.
“My enterprise accomplice, Julian, began this venture. He known as me and stated, ‘That place you at all times wished – we received it. Come do it.’”
“And at first, I stated, ‘No. I’m not doing one other restaurant.’”
“The cash is tough to come back by. Meals costs are insane. Labor costs are loopy. It’s a extremely onerous enterprise.”
“However, on the finish of the day, I couldn’t say no,” Hutchins stated.
Butterworth’s, which is ranked among the many top ten new DC eating places by the Washington Submit, is co-owned by former senior advisor to Nigel Farage, former editor-in-chief of Breitbart, and co-founder of standard conservative media shops, Battle Room and The Nationwide Pulse, Raheem Kassam.
Butterworth’s namesake hails from Alex Butterworth, the senior authorized counsel at Uber, who’s a high investor within the Capitol Hill restaurant.
In April, 2025, this Gateway Pundit correspondent first dined at Butterworth’s, on a dinner reservation with a classy, longtime Republican operative from the Reagan Administration.
We ordered bottle of champagne, some caviar, a Caesar salad, a blue crab bucatini, a golden vegetable risotto, and a flat iron steak.
The bottle of dry champagne was a deal with, and we couldn’t cease ingesting it.
The meal was exceptionally flavorful and well-balanced. Each dish we ordered took on the uncommon high quality of melting in our mouths. Slathered in top-shelf butter and oils, all of the meals boasted a easy, balanced texture.
Butterworth’s menu gadgets stood out as being fairly moderately priced, particularly contemplating that the “price of admission” possible grants prospects the chance to dine alongside famed MAGA figures.
As a bonus, the Butterworth’s employees got here throughout as extraordinarily pleasant and well-intentioned.
Once I returned to Butterworth’s the next week to have lunch, I spotted that Butterworth’s had really develop into famend for its draft pints of Guinness, and its french fries.
As soon as I ordered my first pint of Guinness, I discovered that the black lager kegs had all been dried out by the weekend’s prospects. Days later at Butterworth’s, nevertheless, I used to be lucky sufficient to benefit from the smoothest pint of Guinness in my life.
Because it pertains to Butterworth’s meals, their beef tallow french fries have develop into the speak of the city, by no sheer accident.
Impressively, Hutchins and his companions stay hell-bent on sourcing all substances from distributors and farms that offer solely the freshest meals. Moreover, Hutchins sincerely seeks to profit his prospects’ well being.
“We do the fries proper. We purchase Kennebec potatoes from the Amish Farmers of Pennsylvania. We reduce them, and we blanche them in vinegar water. Then we blanche them in beef tallow. Then we fry them once more in beef tallow, so that you get this additional crunchy, completely golden fry. It’s the small issues, the place you possibly can actually make a distinction for your self,” Hutchins stated.
“It’s like, are you going to take the time to do this? Are you going to purchase the frozen fries, dip them within the fryer, and promote them to as many individuals as you possibly can? Or, are you going to be a craftsman? Are you going to assist the farmers who develop these potatoes, after which take these crops, and deal with them properly?”
“I name the farmers, and I say, ‘What’s popping out of the bottom, proper now? What’s contemporary? What’s in season? Which greens and meats do you have got?’”
“I ask them to ship it, after which we give you a dish, from there. I don’t make a dish up in my head, after which go looking for substances,” Hutchins stated.
Hutchins and his companions recurrently replace their menus, relying on the seasonality of substances. Hutchins’s uncompromising practices concerning well-sourced meals have led Hutchins to the forefront on a scorching button political problem.
“One of many phenomena in my profession is that I wasn’t a very political particular person once I turned a chef. I’m trying to entice anybody and everybody. I do have sturdy, political beliefs about how we should always eat,” Hutchins stated.
“That is a couple of holistic system of consuming. Let’s transfer away from these massive, industrialized meals. Let’s transfer away from this stuff which are making us sick. Let’s transfer a little bit bit nearer to the land, and let’s assist the individuals who develop issues the fitting manner.”
“There are individuals who need to earn cash off us being sick, and so they make meals that’s stuffed with chemical compounds. It’s disgusting, and it ought to be unlawful.”
“As a result of it’s not unlawful, your selection is to present your cash to individuals who hate you, or you possibly can assist individuals who do issues the fitting manner,” Hutchins stated.
Hutchins now finds himself inside the nerve middle of US Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, Robert Kennedy, Jr’s, well being revolution, selling solely essentially the most pure, American meals.
“To have the fitting wing take part; to have the MAHA crowd take part, is tremendous thrilling for me, as a result of for a very long time, I’ve stated, ‘That is the best way we should always eat. That is the best way we should always reside.’”
“MAHA has introduced in a type of younger, right-wing crowd to that model of consuming, and I’m enthusiastic about it, as a result of we should always all be consuming that manner.”
“There’s a method to eat that’s proper, good, and higher for us. And there’s a method to eat that’s toxic, and killing us. I feel all people – cooks, house cooks, and oldsters – ought to actually be our meals in that manner. Begin with what’s popping out of the bottom,” Hutchins stated.
For lunch at Butterworth’s, I used to be served – on a silver platter – additional crispy beef tallow french fries, with garlic and chive oil aioli.
Then, I savored my order of lavishly smooth scrambled eggs, topped with crème fraiche and chives, on a sturdy slice of sourdough.
Lastly, I washed down my lunch with a steaming pot of French Press espresso from the Butterworth’s companions’ personal proprietary espresso line.
I lounged on a sofa contained in the conservative motion’s high new social hangout that now serves a rising variety of Democratic congressmen and Capitol Hill staffers, as properly.
Evidently, in Bart Hutchins’s view, his elegant and charming Butterworth’s gives a refuge from the harsher realities of Washington, DC.
“The capital metropolis ought to be an instance of what we wish the nation to seem like and really feel like. Proper now it appears to be like type of forgotten, and run down, and left to rot. I feel beautifying the complete nation begins with beautifying DC. Our streets ought to be cleaned recurrently. Our streets ought to be lovely. There ought to be inexperienced grass in every single place. There ought to be bushes in every single place,” Hutchins stated.
“Our [Butterworth’s] inside is a maximalist inside. We love our previous books which are on the shelf; we love our previous chandeliers; we love that we purchased all of our plates secondhand by property gross sales and thrift shops. They’re all made out of actual china.”
“For the design, I feel we’re previous London lunch golf equipment. We’re actually trying to the previous world for design inspiration.”
“There’s a lot within the works. We’re going to end the basement. So, we are going to go from two flooring, to 3 flooring, right here at Butterworth’s,” Hutchins stated.
Butterworth’s future seems each bit as shiny because the MAGA and MAHA actions themselves.
