Comments on: Seasonal Pantry Opens at 1314 ½ Ninth Street NW

By: Eliot

Eliot — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:23:53 +0000

It is an amazing place. Their homemade foods rival any I have eaten anywhere in DC. We all need to support our neighborhood small business. I will be a regular there. The owner is a former chef at Equinox.

By: M

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:37:55 +0000

I’m excited to see this place open and think that it has the potential to be great. Hopefully, they will be able to generate the business needed to keep the shelves stocked with interesting products. It would be great if it took some cues from Vace in Cle Park – that place has some great hard to find Italian imported products and awesome frozen sauce.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:28:51 +0000

OMG,there’s a guy with a camera stuck inside that freezer!

By: Sully

Sully — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:18:25 +0000

Met the owner last night and he was very nice. In the near future he will be hosting authentic supper clubs, not the Chef Boyardee crap you pay 90 bucks for and eat in someone’s basement apartment. Can’t wait.

By: elcal

elcal — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:03:39 +0000

Srsly, pulling the racism card? There are plenty of non-white people I’ve spoken to who really hate what Mood has done to the neighborhood on the weekends.

And as for a neighborhood bar, I’m not going to “pop” into a bar with a $20 cover, a red carpet, and a class of patron that necessitated a “please don’t urinate in the alley” placard–not to mention the amount of drunk drivers they put on the road every night. It’s a nightclub/lounge, like Bar 7, FUR or Lux. The business model could care less about the neighbors.

By: Shaw Main Streets

Shaw Main Streets — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:17:39 +0000

Seasonal Pantry will be participating in Shaw Open House tonight, June 16, 2011, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. So stop by for free samples of their goodies (I’ve only tried the items they make themselves) and enter a drawing for prizes from the dozen businesses along the 1100 to 1500 blocks of 9th Street, NW that are participating. For more details, go to http://www.flavors.me/shawmainstreets

By: Rukasu

Rukasu — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:39:10 +0000

The Tabasco and tomato paste are just props right?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:28:17 +0000

Wow…lots of negativity and hate in these comments.

1. Give this establishment a chance. Their shelf items are not what they are about. The fresh food selection is what will make this place great. Their ice cream is incredible and I’d rather buy a pint at a couple dollars more than buy the crap in the grocery stores. But it’s your choice….buy from them once in a while and treat yourself or go to CVS. I’d rather support local business than CVS anyday. If we don’t support them, we’ll just end up with another CVS on every block.

2. I live near Mood and think some of the comments are exagerated. I’m white and go in from time to time for a martini. Nice place and nice people. Perhaps if the neighbors would treat it as a neighborhood bar and pop in from time to time, things might not seem as bad as they are. Racism is not neighborly.

By: so true

so true — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:25:45 +0000

Good point; I’m sure they plan on expanding their brands. Maybe they plan on it eventually, but I bet getting small-batch deliveries can also be an issue.

Right now, I see this place as << Cowgirl Creamery, yet closer to where I live. But, I also see it as in the same market as Cork, and it looks subpar to that as well. I have a feeling it will improve, though.

By: caballero

caballero — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:23:47 +0000

As a hot-sauce fan, I’d like them to carry something other than Tabasco. Something local, like Uncle Bruthas, would be great, but there are plenty of wonderful, little-known hot sauces that deserve shelf space.

Frankly, there’s no way I would buy my Tabasco at this place, but I might stop in if they carried a brand that I can’t find elsewhere in town.