When Virginia Ali and her husband Ben first started brainstorming about the dream of opening their own little restaurant, the first thing they had to do was decide what kind. A full-service ordeal was ...

HalfSmoke, Washington D.C.-native chef Andre McCain’s sausage-centered eatery, was established in the Shaw neighborhood during the summer of 2016 in celebration of a beloved local delicacy. The ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. The first half-smoke I ever tried came off a downtown D.C ...

A little piece of Washington, D.C., history died this past week. Restaurateur Ben Ali opened the Washington hot spot Ben's Chili Bowl in 1958 in the city's U Street corridor. Over the years, Duke ...

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Following is a transcript of the video: Lisa Paradise: A half-pork, half-beef sausage, grilled until perfectly charred and brown dressed with tangy yellow mustard and crunchy white onions. But it's ...