Alta Strada

Food Bites

Nora Poullion to Retire, Sell Restaurant Chef Nora Poullion of Restaurant Nora, 2132 Florida Ave. NW, D.C.’s first organic restaurant, is planning to retire — but not right away. She is looking for someone to take over the restaurant, which has been open for nearly 38 years, and
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Michael Schlow will open Casolare, a southern Italian restaurant, in Kimpton’s renovated Glover Park Hotel on June 15. (Photo: Glover Park Hotel)

Food Bites

Michael Schlow to Open Casolare in July Chef Michael Schlow, owner of Tico on D.C.’s 14th Street corridor, The Riggsby in Dupont’s the Carlyle Hotel and the recently opened Alta Strada in Mount Vernon Triangle, will open Casolare, a 150-seat restaurant in Kimpton’s renovated
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Dancers on stilts perform at the Italian Embassy during the EU embassies open house day in 2014. (Photo: Yuri Gripas)

Weekend Guide

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Eat Your Way Through This Weekend This is a weekend to eat: St. Sophia’s Greek Festival, St. Luke’s SerbFest D.C., St. Andrew’s Romanian Food Festival, Taste of Arlington, Lamb Jam and Taste the World in Fenton Village all promise to add inches to our waists. There’s also a big
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