Interviewing strangers over a meal since 2008 (as featured in the Washington Post)
The 106th dinner interview featured Dean Gold, the owner of Washington, D.C., restaurant Dino’s Grotto. We met at the Italian-inspired venue in May 2018, where he talked at length about the place and much more. Dino’s Grotto was his second attempt at making a success of a dining venue, after…
Joe Himali, the 133rd dinner stranger, is hosting the next of his regular History Salon lunches in Washington, D.C., later this month. It’s at Hill Center; a local landmark built in 1864 and originally designed under the orders of President Abraham Lincoln to be the city’s first Naval Hospital. For…