The Most Anticipated Fall Restaurant Openings to Track Around D.C. - Eater DC
"The Popal Group chefs Matt Conroy and Isabel Coss, the husband-wife culinary duo behind Georgetown’s acclaimed French neo-bistro Lutèce, open a contemporary Mexican restaurant on Capitol Hill. Pascual gets its name from San Pasqual, the patron saint of cooks and kitchens. The hearth-focused menu honors Coss’s Mexico City roots and the chefs’ combined experience working at top-tier Mexican restaurants. Before joining the Popal Group in 2020, Conroy was the chef de cuisine at Michelin-starred Oxomoco in Brooklyn. Coss, a former pastry chef at NYC’s famed Empellón and Cosme, got her start baking bread at Mexico City’s iconic Pujol at age 17. A few weeks after opening, Pascual will open a daytime panaderia and coffee shop called Volcán with pickup from a to-go window." - Tierney Plumb
