Employees across five restaurants owned by two of DC’s biggest restaurateurs announced plans to unionize this week. The restaurants include Le Diplomate, St. Anselm, and Pastis from Stephen Starr and ...

In blazing heat midday Monday, a modest crowd of labor-rights advocates and restaurant workers — including at least six D.C.-area Starr Restaurants employees — chanted in English and Spanish: “When ...

Restaurateur Stephen Starr (Le Diplomate, St. Anselm) and restaurateur Keith McNally, who opened the original Pastis in 1999, partnered on the D.C. version in a two-story warehouse at 1323 4th St. NE.