A high-profile chef was turned away from sceney Japanese spot Shōtō in DC for her footwear, reigniting a long-running debate over restaurant dress codes. Marjorie Meek-Bradley, a Top Chef finalist who ...

Chef Tim Love’s newest restaurant turns the ... making Caterina’s the first Fort Worth restaurant to enforce a dress code since La Piazza closed three years ago. Phones are banned.

It doesn’t take anything too extreme to reignite the restaurant dress-code debate—take Birkenstocks. Over the summer, Top Chef finalist Marjorie Meek-Bradley was turned away from the downtown DC ...

Naqi points out that Meek-Bradley’s employer Starr Restaurant Group has “similar verbiage” regarding dress code on some of its websites and reservation confirmation emails. “I truly hope Chef Marjorie ...