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Meet DC's Game-Changing Restaurant Matriarchs

Seven female leaders of family-run restaurants who've shaped the way Washington eats.

A Speakeasy-Style Mahjong Bar With Dim Sum Is Opening in Arlington

Bun'd Up chefs Andrew Lo and Scott Chung will open Sparrow Room at Pentagon Row this fall.

Hit D.C. Restaurant Thamee Will Close Permanently

Only eight days of service remain

Beloved DC Burmese Restaurant Thamee Is Permanently Closing

%%The last day of business at the H Street Corridor spot is January 23.

Waitstaff Shortage Leads Restaurant Thamee to Switch to Fast Casual Dining

A Speakeasy-Style Mahjong Bar With Dim Sum Is Opening in Arlington

Restaurants and the pandemic: What it took, and what it cost, to survive.

When the D.C. Burmese restaurant Thamee closed in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, its owners didn’t know if they’d ever open their 1-year-old business again. They had just had their first five straight weeks of profitability when D.C. shut down in-person dining for the first time, and though they had a lot of momentum behind them—the restaurant had recently been named a semifinalist for the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant—they didn’t feel equipped to transform their upscale dine-in business into a carryout and delivery joint. At the time, co-owner Eric Wang told me that if Thamee was still shut down by June, he’d place the restaurant’s chances of survival around 50 percent.

How D.C.-Maryland Restaurants are Adapting to COVID

How D.C.-Maryland Restaurants are Adapting to COVID Restaurateurs and Food Columnist Tim Carman to Discuss Strategies for Survival in a Maryland Smith-Hosted Webinar Newswise — As restaurants have been particularly challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has organized an online panel discussion with restaurateurs who will discuss how they have survived thus far and what others might learn from those experiences. The free event, “Strategies for Survival: How Local Restaurants are Adapting in the Face of COVID,” is 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Register via https://go.umd.edu/SuM.