If you put aside the masks, the bottles of hand sanitizer on each table, and the contact tracing forms distributed along with menus, last Wednesday looked like a normal pre-COVID -19 lunch hour at Paris’s Ibrik Kitchen, a popular Balkan canteen. Regulars filled the intimate dining room without hesitation and …

Mike Isabella decamped from D.C. to Florida a year ago, but the fallout from a 2018 sexual harassment scandal and the business failures that followed continues to shadow the one-time celebrity chef years after his prolific D.C. restaurant group crumbled. Three former employees at Requin, the contemporary French restaurant on …

May I humbly suggest that, on this historically high-stakes and anxiety-provoking day in the United States of America, you roll out a big ball of beef, find some scraps of cheese and a few slices of onion, and make yourself a smashed burger. It’s this particular comfort food that carried …

It kicked off with sneakers. On October 23, Kaylan Colbert and her husband, William Johnson, arrived to dine at Umi Sushi in Atlanta. However, they were turned away because Johnson, who is Black, was wearing Nike Air Force 1s. Umi’s website says it has a “strictly enforced” dress code, which …

Businesses board up in anticipation of potential election night activity Restaurants, bars, and other businesses across the country are boarding up their storefronts in anticipation of civil unrest that experts say could unfold on or after election night. In New York, iconic stores like Macy’s Saks Fifth Avenue — as …