Fiola Mare hosts business dinners, client lunches, receptions and full buyouts for up to 150 seated guests or 300 standing. Groups of 14 to 50 can book one of its private rooms, and larger receptions can use the waterfront boardwalk. The restaurant is the Italian seafood house of chef Fabio Trabocchi on the Georgetown Waterfront in Washington, DC.
Seminars and company events
The restaurant sells private dining for social and business events, at lunch, brunch and dinner. For a board dinner or a client evening, the Marea Room seats 36 and can be joined to the Aston Martin Room for 50 seated or 70 standing. For a product launch or a company reception, the Marina takes 50 seated or 75 standing from spring to fall. A full buyout opens the whole restaurant for 150 seated or 300 standing. Event menus range from seated dinners and lunches to brunch, buffets, raw bar and antipasti stations, tasting menus and beverage bars, and celebration cakes can be ordered.
The restaurant does not list meeting equipment, so a working session with screens is best planned as a lunch or dinner around a presentation rather than as a full conference day.
Rooms and capacities
The Aston Martin Room is a chef's table for up to 14, where executive chef Matteo Limoli leads an interactive tasting. The Marea Room seats 36 or takes 45 standing. Together, the two rooms form the full private dining room, for 50 seated or 70 standing.
The Mermaid Room and the Sophia Lounge take 18 seated or 25 standing. When the lanai doors of the Mermaid Room are opened, the space extends into the Sophia Lounge, an outdoor lounge. Bar Piccolo takes 22 seated or 35 standing and works for a smaller reception or a team drink.
The Marina is a boardwalk on the waterfront, open for events from spring to fall, for 50 seated or 75 standing, with the Veranda above it. Before an event, guests can gather on the patio or at the bars. The full restaurant takes 150 seated or 300 standing, for lunch, brunch or dinner.
Catering
All food comes from the restaurant's own kitchen. The menu centers on Italian seafood, and the wine list has received a Wine Spectator award. Menus for each room are agreed with the events team, from a tasting at the chef's table to stations and buffets for a standing reception.
History and setting
Fiola Mare belongs to Fabio Trabocchi Restaurants, the group led by the chef. The dining room and its outdoor spaces face the Georgetown Waterfront, so most rooms and the Marina look over the water. The restaurant sits at the foot of Georgetown, where 31st Street meets the waterfront, close to the offices and hotels of the neighborhood.
Getting there
The address is 3050 K St NW, Washington, DC 20007, with the entrance at 31st Street and the waterfront. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is the closest airport. The nearest Metro station is Foggy Bottom-GWU, about a 15-minute walk, and Union Station serves Amtrak arrivals from New York and the Northeast.
