Ready or not, D.C. restaurants are returning to full capacity. Here’s how the first night went.
Emily Heil, Tim Carman
India Rice, right, and Derrick Edwards have drinks and wings at the main bar at Old Ebbitt Grill on Friday. (Robb Hill for The Washington Post)
Jason Lukacs strode the length of the main bar at the Old Ebbitt Grill, pumping a fist in the air.
“Ya ready, ya ready, ya ready?” he asked. The question was meant not just for his colleagues who were cutting orange wedges and lengths of celery but also, it seemed, for the empty dining room beyond.