Inside an unfinished dining room on a hopeful day in May, Suresh Sundas’s large eyes and smile both grew wider as he talked about the cubes of chicken breast he had just removed from the brand-new ...

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Emily Venezky is a Social Media Manager at Eater and a proud Washingtonian. She fell in love with food while growing up in Los Angeles, eating plenty of street tacos and Sichuan dishes. Nepalese chef ...

Barman Dante Datta and chef Suresh Sundas initially met in 2012 while helping to open acclaimed Indian restaurant Rasika West End. Datta would make cocktail syrups and infusions in the same area of ...

France holds the patent on romance, but Daru Lounge proves that India is at least as sexy ("daru" is the Hindi word for alcohol). With a bar backlit in rose-colored lights, delicate flower lamps ...