Union Square Cafe reopened a few blocks from its original restaurant in Manhattan in December. (Photo by Emily Andrews)

D.C. is getting ready to welcome another New York import. Manhattan’s popular Union Square Cafe is coming to town, according to a report yesterday in Washingtonian.

The James Beard award-winning restaurant has signed on to be a flagship part of the massive Capitol Crossing development coming to 200 Massachusetts Ave. NW near I-395. This is the first location of the restaurant outside of New York. The site was once rumored as the future home of a D.C. Eataly, Mario Batali’s Italian mega market/restaurant, but this news would seem to squash that possibility.

Union Square Cafe is part of restaurateur Danny Meyer’s empire, which includes Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, and a slew of other restaurants in New York City and beyond. The varied and upscale menu includes pastas and main courses such as ricotta gnocchi ($18), roasted monkfish ($38), and braised lamb shank ($46). Details of the D.C. menu and pricing are not yet available.

The restaurant’s Manhattan location is also one of Meyer’s establishments that has eliminated tipping and instead bakes hospitality into the cost of the menu items in an effort to improve compensation across restaurant staff.

No opening date was announced, and full details will be available in June, according to Washingtonian.

The $1.3 billion Capitol Crossing project—currently the largest private development underway in D.C.—will bridge the Capitol Hill and East End neighborhoods, creating three new city blocks when it is completed. It will transform seven acres of land above I-395 into a 2.2 million-square-foot complex of five mixed-use buildings. The first is currently slated to be delivered in December of 2018.