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Albi (restaurant)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ113001572 ↗
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Albi is a restaurant in Washington, D.C., United States. It is owned by chef and restauranteur Michael Rafidi. Established in February 2020, the restaurant serves Palestinian cuisine. The menu has included barbecued lamb kebabs and baba ganoush. Albi has received a Michelin star. "Albi" is the Arabic word for "my heart" (Arabic: قلبي).

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Albi and restaurant can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as restaurant. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113001572. Authority coordinates are 38.874, -77.000. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Albi (restaurant)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.