Isabella Used NDAs to Silence Employees Chef and restaurateur Mike Isabella and his partners’ legal woes escalated last week with new claims that Mike Isabella Concepts (MIC) used non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to prevent employees from speaking out about sexual harassment, Read More

Taco Bamba Opens Chinatown Location Taco Bamba opened its first D.C. location on Friday at 777 I St. NW in the former Del Campo space. The fourth location of chef Victor Albisu’s taqueria seats 40 in the dining room, 36 at the bar and another 30 on a seasonal patio facing I Read More

Nationals Unveil New Food & Drink Lineup A new field that took 600 dump trucks full of sand and 100,000 square-feet of Kentucky bluegrass sod await the Washington Nationals when they take the field at 1:05 p.m. Apr. 5 for opening day against the New York Mets, and there will Read More

Star Chef Quits, Isabella Out at Nats Park Mike Isabella, his Mike Isabella Concepts (MIC) restaurant group and his four partners were sued by a former top manager in D.C. Superior Court on March 19 for sexual harassment and retaliatory termination. Then his long-time publicist Read More

Dinner with a Side of Sexual Harassment Former Top Manager Sues Chef Mike Isabella Fallout was swift to the news that a former top manager had sued celebrity chef Mike Isabella, his company Mike Isabella Concepts (MIC) and his partners for repeatedly sexually harassing her in the Read More

4 D.C. Chefs Get James Beard Nominations Four D.C. chefs are finalists for prestigious James Beard Awards. Chefs Amy Brandwein of Centrolina, Tom Cunanan of Bad Saint and Jeremiah Langhorne of The Dabney, all in D.C., are competing against Rich Landau of Vedge in Philadelphia and Read More