159 days ago - Over the past five years, Kimpton Hotels have seemingly divided and multiplied throughout the metro region. And there’s a dining room to go along with every Hotel Monaco, Hotel Palomar or Hotel Rouge. These restaurants have been of an uneven quality, from the very good (Poste in the Hotel Monaco in Penn Quarter) to the aggressively mediocre (Domaso in the new Palomar in Rosslyn).
166 days ago - The transformation of U Street’s dining scene rolls on. Already blessed with a rich assortment of midpriced, casual options, such as Marvin and Creme, the strip now has another brick-walled eatery that deserves a drop-in.
173 days ago - Bice, the Northern Italian chain that began in Milan in 1926, once had a popular outpost in downtown Washington. But thanks to the real estate market, the company picked up its stakes there in the mid-1990s. The intervening years have seen its concept swell to 24 locations worldwide, the latest being right back in the Washington area in downtown Bethesda, at the space formerly occupied by the ill-fated Old Homestead Steakhouse.