Many dishes these days seem engineered for the express purpose of Instagram immortality. How many times have you seen the wooden platter of radishes at Le Diplomate treated to a gauzy Valencia filter?

Banking on the premise that laptop-bound customers want more than a tepid pastry from a coffee shop, Convivial chef and owner Cedric Maupillier will start serving lunch at his celebrated ...

It’s opening day for Convivial, chef Cedric Maupillier’s follow-up restaurant to Mintwood Place. This one is inside the City Market at O building in Shaw.

Convivial in Washington has been open six years — practically middle age for restaurants. Owner Cedric Maupillier knows he can’t cook in place if he wants to keep his doors open in a city that, ...

Chef Cedric Maupillier doesn’t want anyone to think of his new restaurant, Convivial, as Mintwood Place #2. The French-American restaurant, opening in Shaw on Nov. 6, will have a completely different ...