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 ...

The boycott targeted the restaurants Le Diplomate, Osteria Mozza, Rasika, Modena, Bombay Club and The Occidental, according to a copy of the pledge obtained by Axios.

Francisco López, a Le Diplomate server of five years, told Axios some employees are holding counter protests to the union. Bajaj told Axios there haven't been picket lines outside Rasika or his ...

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.