Comments on: 901 Restaurant and Bar Closes at 9th and I St, NW

By: Laurence E. Castelli

Laurence E. Castelli — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:51:28 +0000

I remember seeing two shirtless men beating on each other.

By: Keith Morrow

Keith Morrow — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:40:14 +0000

That was a federal employee who worked in the area and was later reprimanded.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:50:41 +0000

holy wow! you clearly don’t realize that businesses (especially restaurants) can fail! Did you not consider that their sales might not cover their rent or cost of renovation?

By: RozCat

RozCat — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:46:43 +0000

Seems like it *should* have worked between overflow from other places that are ALWAYS crowded, hotel guests and the after work office crowd in the nearby offices. For me I just assumed it was nothing special: Boring bad name, never conveyed a unique identity and looked more like a tacky DC club than a restaurant.

By: michael k. wilkinson

michael k. wilkinson — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:35:12 +0000

Holy wow! How do these people do sh*t like this? Dump a huge ton of money into a place, then close it down barely a year and a half later? Holy wow. What money can buy… I guess.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:03:45 +0000

any restaurant that describes itself as “sexy” is just pathetic. Are we surprised that people didn’t want to eat at a place that looks/feels like VIDA’s “sexy” locker rooms?

By: thomsenite

thomsenite — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:00:08 +0000

Looks boring, never been in, never even occurred to me to go in.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:46:06 +0000

Agree with the poster about this being a tough corner to thrive in. However, the place didn’t help itself by having a menu that was not focused, and mediocre at best in taste. The happy hour, for which I have been to many a time, was great. $5 sliders could not have been beat! I will definitely miss that. Oh well…cannot wait for a brasserie type place to open in that area. I’m sure it will do well.

By: E2DAV

E2DAV — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:49 +0000

This is a rough, rough corner to open a restaurant until CityCenter gets up and running. It is in a cold building with dark windows on a corner without much pedestrian activity.

I never liked this place…the menu was all over the place, it changed menus in the middle of their tenure and it generally didn’t have a focus (we’re a club, no we’re an upscale tapas place, no we’re a casual sliders place). It is very close to our office and was always in the mix for go-to places. But, nobody was ever happy about it. The food was mediocre and there was general confusion about what the restaurant wanted to be.

CityCenter food options cannot come soon enough.

By: Customs Boy

Customs Boy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:30 +0000

I was there one night for a reception and some guy took his shirt off and was running around like a crazy person trying to fight another guy. Never seen anything like it.