Adagia Restaurant
In the Great Hall of Westminster House, where returning GI’s once sang “Let me call you Sweetheart” at weekly Sunday evening “Singspirations,” and students from around the world gathered for dinner and conversation, there is now an acclaimed restaurant.
The idea for Adagia began in late 1999 when the restaurant’s owner approached Westminster House’s former Executive Director Randy Bare. The two discovered that they shared an interest in philosophy and the theologian Erasmus. They agreed that opening a restaurant would be the perfect way of welcoming the public to Westminster House, and settled on Adagia (a Latin word meaning “slow”) as a name.
The name seemed particularly perfect because it recalls Erasmus’ famous book of Latin and Greek adages, as well as the Slow Food Movement in which Adagia participates.