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

901 9th Street, NW

Thanks to a reader for sending the heads up that 901 Restaurant and Bar has closed. Their website has a simple announcement:

“901 Restaurant Bar closed on January 22, 2013. Thank you for the great times and meals we shared together.”

901 originally opened up back in May 2011.

Category: Bars, Coming and Going, Downtown, Penn Quarter/Chinatown, Restaurants

By: Prince Of Petworth | 24 January 2013 10:30 AM | 13 Comments

PrettyPaula

A shame…I had a delicious meal and great service on more than one occasion at 901. I never figured out why it was always empty despite the great location.

January 24, 2013 at 10:41 am
Anonymous

I was not quite as impressed. It tried to look too fancy and the food was overpriced for what you got. It just wasn’t a comfortable feel at all. Hopefully restaurant owners will use this example as a lesson.

January 24, 2013 at 11:16 am
Jay

If you asked me what was at this corner I would have said it’s just offices and a construction zone. I’ve probably walked and driven by this place dozens of times. Never once noticed it was there.

January 24, 2013 at 11:17 am
Customs Boy

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.

January 24, 2013 at 11:28 am
- Keith Morrow
  
  That was a federal employee who worked in the area and was later reprimanded.
  
  January 24, 2013 at 5:40 pm
  - Laurence E. Castelli
    
    I remember seeing two shirtless men beating on each other.
    
    January 31, 2013 at 2:51 pm
E2DAV

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.

January 24, 2013 at 11:28 am
Anonymous

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.

January 24, 2013 at 11:46 am
thomsenite

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

January 24, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Anonymous

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?

January 24, 2013 at 3:03 pm
michael k. wilkinson

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.

January 24, 2013 at 4:35 pm
- Anonymous
  
  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?
  
  January 24, 2013 at 4:50 pm
RozCat

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.

January 24, 2013 at 4:46 pm