Business Ins & Outs: La Chaumière, Alara, Fangyán, Greco

June 29, 2023

Hakan Ilan to Remake Paolo’s Space The long shuttered Paolo’s Ristorante space, most recently High Street Grill, will become Alara, a Turkish restaurant by Hakan Ilhan. Meaning “beautiful water fairy” […]

Business Ins & Outs: Citibank, Cafe con Bagel; &pizza

May 22, 2023

In: Cafe con Bagel Pablo Salazar finally got to open his coffee and bagel joint at 1332 Wisconsin Ave. NW in the former space for Petite Soeur and, before that, the […]

Mapping Georgetown: Meet the Real McCoy of the Peabody Room

November 15, 2021

Imagine being a librarian with a passion to meticulously preserve every key detail of your community’s history. And, what if you had the dream job of serving as the archivist […]

Breakfast With Woolly Mammoth’s Howard Shalwitz

December 7, 2017

Among the last of the generation that founded D.C. companies in the late 1970s and 1980s, Shalwitz announced last June that he would retire at the end of the 2017-18 season.