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The ABLTY “Feed the Grind” wall mark inside the Dupont Circle commissary, beside the pass to the cold room
About ABLTY

Every Plate Leaves With a Name on It.

Michelin-trained chefs in Dupont Circle, cooking for high performers.

Where It Started

One Player Came First.

2015

Started in an apartment kitchen with one chef and one idea.

No contract. No kitchen of our own. Just the belief that a player should never have to wonder whether their food is fueling them or fighting them.

The First Player

One athlete trusted the food before anyone else did.

We earned the second plate by getting the first one right.

The Roster

One player. Then eleven. Then the whole team.

Word travels fast in a clubhouse.

The Run

That trust helped fuel a World Series run.

Every homestand, every road trip, deep into October.

The Scale

5,250 square feet in Dupont Circle.

Apartment kitchen to regional headquarters. Same obsession. More burners.

We never outgrewthe first plate.

The Bench

The Team Behind the Teams

These are the people on the line.

Abby Peterson — ABLTY chef
Abby Peterson
Ben Gilthorpe — ABLTY chef
Ben Gilthorpe
Christian Ross — ABLTY chef
Christian Ross
DK Byrd — ABLTY chef
DK Byrd
Greg Kingscott — ABLTY chef
Greg Kingscott
Joseph Pasagui — ABLTY chef
Joseph Pasagui
Morgan Durham — ABLTY chef
Morgan Durham
Nahun Calix — ABLTY chef
Nahun Calix
Paolo Lingat — ABLTY chef
Paolo Lingat
Rudy Moures — ABLTY chef
Rudy Moures
Yong Kim — ABLTY chef
Yong Kim
How We Work

House Rules

Proof on the Plate

Every claim on this site is a team we’ve fed or a number we can show.

The Standard Doesn’t Scale Down

The plate a rookie gets is the plate an All-Star gets. Every cover.

Earned, Not Claimed

After the first player, every team came the same way: the food did the talking.

Feed the Grind

We cook for the 11 PM prep and the 6 AM load-out, not the highlight reel.

One Kitchen, Every Athlete

One line feeds pros, students, offices, and families.

By Any Means Necessary

Allergens, travel days, last-minute roster changes. The answer is yes — then we figure out how.

In the Press

Read About the Kitchen

‘Not just any old sandwich’: A lot goes into the Wizards’ PB&Js
The Washington PostMarch 2025
“My professional sports nutrition sidekick for the last 10 years.”

Sue Saunders

Director of Performance Nutrition

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