Restaurants

WASHINGTON — Some DC area restaurants are feeling the trickle down effect of the government shutdown.

In a news cycle swirling with notices of restaurant closures, Ristorante i Ricchi reminds us that longevity is possible in the D.C. dining scene. The Italian restaurant specializing in Tuscan cuisine opened its doors on 19th St. NW on Jan.…

Slim’s Diner will close its doors for good on Sunday, the latest restaurant on the vaunted Upshur Street to shutter.

The founders of DMV Black Restaurant Week are introducing a new event series with the Metropolitan Police Department to nurture mutual respect and improve day-to-day interactions between restaurants and bars and the police. The move comes…

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Environmental inspectors began enforcing the District’s new plastic straw ban Tuesday, and so far, there’s a lot of room for improvement.

Poke, cacio e pepe everything, and fancy roast chickens? So 2018. A new slate of trends are on their way in this year.

If you’re passionate about food and considering opening a restaurant of your own, Dan Simons of Founding Farmers has just one word of advice: “Don’t.”

The 14th Street NW location of Kapnos served its last spit-roasted lamb on Dec. 26, according to partner George Pagonis. It's the most recent Mike Isabella Concepts closure stemming from the Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing that set the…

We said goodbye to a lot of restaurants this year.

In 2011, Good Stuff Eatery’s Spike Mendelsohn, fresh off an appearance on Top Chef: All Stars, stirred up controversy by calling DC a “second-tier city where you can be a big fish in a small pond.” Mendelsohn wasn’t altogether wrong at that…

Christmas in Washington is a blissfully quiet time for people who don’t observe the holiday. Even for many practicing Christians, the day has become a secular celebration timed around the release of movies looking to garner awards. Most…

A new app launched yesterday puts a lot of icky information at users' fingertips. HD Scores aggregates data from local health departments and employs an algorithm to score restaurants and all other food service establishments on a scale of…

The Veritas Law Firm shepherds restaurants through the process of obtaining their liquor licenses.

The disgraced chef's bankrupt company will cease operations by the end of the year

The London restaurant group behind the Zuma chain and more 40 other restaurants around the world is making its way into Greater Washington with two new Japanese concepts, Shōtō and Akēdo, planned for downtown D.C.

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Arlington bar owner Scott Parker will debut his first DC venture—a full-service restaurant called Roy Boys—in the former Tasty Burger space in Shaw’s Atlantic Plumbing development. Parker, a co-owner, says Roy Boys should open by…

Exactly one year and one day after former “Top Chef” star and restaurateur Mike Isabella opened a 41,000-square-foot multi-restaurant concept in the Tysons Galleria, he announced he is shutting down his entire company — once, one of the…

Mike Isabella’s restaurant group is going out of business and many of its restaurants could close as early as the end of the year, according to new filings in the disgraced chef’s bankruptcy case.