The District’s perpetual-motion restaurant scene is getting another entrance by a high-profile restaurateur from the land of water ice and Tastykakes.

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For the past several weeks, a labor protest outside the Madison Hotel at 1177 15th Street NW has been causing a real commotion, day and night. But quiet has finally arrived — Michael Neibauer reports that the union, Unite Here Local 25, and hotel management came to a settlement last night with the help of Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, putting an end to the noise, at least temporarily.