Articles tagged: D.C. restaurants

News

Workers at five D.C. restaurants attempt to unionize, fighting for “rights, respect, and benefits”

Le Diplomate is a bustling high-end spot, consistently making lists of the District’s top restaurants. The popular Logan Circle restaurant brings in about $26.7 million in revenue a year—but workers... Read more

By and February 15, 2025

News

D.C. restaurants close for a ‘Day Without Immigrants’

Restaurants across the country and in D.C. closed on Monday, Feb. 3 as part of the ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protest. The nationwide protest sprung up from social media campaigns reacting... Read more

By February 7, 2025

Voices

D.C.’s Shia: The seeds of restaurant worker organizing

After my 12-hour waitressing shift, my feet throbbed, my hair smelled like bacon grease, and my hands were raw from cleaning trays under hot water. As I walked back to... Read more

By January 18, 2025

Leisure

D.C.’s first all-vegan Cajun joint opens on the National Mall

The city does not boast many vegan-Cajun restaurants, making 73 Farm a novelty for some, and a source of nostalgia for others.

By , and March 30, 2024

Leisure

A Foodie’s Guide to D.C. Restaurants

As a cultural melting-pot—a true microcosm of the United States as a whole—D.C. has everything a foodie would ever want!

By September 11, 2023

Voices

Despite the negatives, D.C.’s restaurant industry needs Initiative 82

The newly passed Initiative 82 will help build a better restaurant industry, but it must tear the industry down to its foundations first.

By November 19, 2022

News

Initiative 82 on track to end the sub-minimum wage for D.C. tipped restaurant staff

After a long series of setbacks, restaurant workers rejoice as a new effort is slated to abolish an exception to D.C. minimum wage laws. Formally titled the District of Columbia... Read more

By February 2, 2022