ALLISON'S RESTAURANT

Allison's Restaurant is family owned and operated by brothers Jim and Bill Hamrock. Jim has been in the restaurant industry since the age of 15, working summers as a teenager at Phillip's Restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland. He moved on to Amelia's, a fine dining restaurant in Crystal City, Virginia, then for the next 22 years as the Executive Chef at Pulicinella, an Italian restaurant in McLean. Jim went to culinary school at L'Academie de Cuisine in Bethesda... Younger brother Bill began working in restaurants at the age of 13. Despite warnings from his older brother of the rigors of the business, Bill attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Upon graduation, he started his professional career at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. He has also worked in Nantucket, Massachusetts and Zurich, Switzerland. He came back to Virginia and worked at the Carlyle Grand Café and the 17th Street Bar & Grill in D.C. before opening his own venture in..

Primary location: Crofton United States