Restaurants

Careers in the culinary world will become more accessible for students at three DC public schools this fall. ProStart, a national program that’s run locally by the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), will launch a…

Mastro's Steakhouse is in hot water. A former server at the D.C. location is suing the national chain, alleging that the company violated labor standards when it forced him to share his tips with colleagues who don't regularly interact with…

The owner of a couple of D.C.'s original waterfront restaurants is banking on the city's newest waterfront destination: Buzzard Point. A proposed 12,000-square-foot restaurant in the RiverPoint development at 2100 Second St. SE — the…

The Dupont Circle building that for nearly 40 years housed Restaurant Nora, the United States’ first certified organic restaurant, has been sold. Prolific D.C. restaurateur Ashok Bajaj, whose Knightsbridge Restaurant Group owns of Rasika,…

On a recent morning in the empty dining room of Equinox Restaurant, co-owner Ellen Kassoff Gray and her managers were sipping coffee and hashing out a plan of action in case protesters were to confront a customer in the high-end restaurant…

When Seng Luangrath was 12 and living in a refugee camp in Thailand, the trauma of exile was still fresh. She had grown up in neighboring Laos in a multigenerational household with a grandmother who taught her to cook sticky rice and other…

Just when you thought DC’s boom of celebrity chef-driven steakhouses was waning, here’s another: Cut by Wolfgang Puck. The “contemporary twist on the classic steakhouse” will open inside Georgetown’s Rosewood hotel in Spring 2019. In…

Taylor Gourmet will close all 17 of its DC-area stores after Sunday, September 23. Friday is the last day for the hoagie chain’s two Chicago stores. The closures come as Connecticut-based private equity firm KarpReilly, which infused Taylor…

Lawmakers in the District of Columbia are preparing to overturn a ballot measure that voters passed in June to raise wages for restaurant workers.

Inside a packed hearing room at the Wilson Building on Monday, dozens of D.C. bar and restaurant workers made one thing clear: They don’t want a raise. At least not one mandated by the city. That was the apparent consensus among many…

One of its cofounders shares how the original M Street shop became a super-successful chain.

D.C. residents voted in June to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, but the matter is far from settled. As members of the D.C. Council consider whether to overturn the vote, saying higher wages could hurt workers in the long run, a…

WASHINGTON — Why should anyone care about a restaurant that closed 24 years ago? In the case of one Duke Zeibert’s, it’s because the restaurant holds a unique place in the history of the nation’s capital — and, to an extent, a unique place…

A transgender woman has dropped a discrimination complaint against a downtown D.C. restaurant that forced her to leave its premises in June because she used the women’s restroom after it agreed to take a series of actions in support of the…

DISTRICT RESIDENTS can enjoy frozen yogurt at Menchie’s, fresh salads at Sweetgreen or craft beer at the Bruery Store — but not if they want to pay with cash. These establishments, along with many others in the city, have opted to only…

At D.C. barbecue restaurant Hill Country, go ahead, get the spare ribs. Just don’t try to pay for them with spare change. That’s because the Texas-style barbecue market in Penn Quarter recently stopped accepting cash. Now, it’s plastic only…

Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Atlanta have one thing in common. They've all hosted a Black Restaurant Week to highlight black culinary and bar talent as well as black-owned restaurants. This fall, D.C. joins the movement…