Washingtonian

On Le Diplomate: “Stephen Starr owns 30 restaurants, most of them in Philadelphia, including Morimoto (with Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto) and Buddakan. He has recently expanded to New York, Miami, and now Washington...The secret of Starr’s success [is] that he can make you feel a giddy sense of privilege to be sitting on his stunning sound stage, munching on bread.”