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We lost Johnny’s Half Shell to the pandemic. After 20 years, it deserves a farewell toast. Tom Sietsema © Provided by The Washington Post The recent passing of a longtime dining favorite went unannounced in a proper obituary. Allow me to imagine how it might have opened: Johnny’s Half Shell, the beloved Chesapeake-influenced seafood restaurant that was opened by James Beard award-winning chef Ann Cashion and business partner John Fulchino in Dupont Circle in 1999, relocated to Capitol Hill in 2006 and moved to Adams Morgan in 2016, served its last dinner March 14. Fulchino, who announced the restaurant’s permanent closure on Facebook on Oct. 30 by chance, Cashion’s birthday said the decision to shutter was based in part on the impracticality of operating the restaurant as he and his best friend conceived it. Sure, they could have sent seafood out in boxes, but as Cashion put it this month, “Johnny’s is an experience,” and she wasn’t incli

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