“Dear PoPville,
There used to be a Chinese rock garden designed by Alfred Liu in the courtyards of TechWorld–there’s a great set of pictures here. I went by today to look at it, having not been in a year or so, and found this: Read More
808 7th Street, NW
Thanks to Pedro for sending: “new Taco Bell Cantina coming near 7th and H NW in Chinatown.”
Ed. Note: This is in part of the former Fado space, Smashburger took over the other part.
Stay tuned.
781 7th Street, NW (previously home to Circa and Zengo before them) via Tom’s Watch Bar
Braulio Agnese wrote on Friday: “Tom’s Watch Bar Chinatown closed. Yikes.”
Tom’s opened here in December 2022. Read More
501 7th Street, NW
The new placard for Street Pizza now says:
“Applicant requests to increase the seat count from 38 to 150 and the Total Occupancy Load from 64 to 272. Read More
700 7th Street, NW
Yesterday we learned about the Dupont location where I mentioned more were coming – here’s the coming Chinatown location: Read More
Big news from the Capital One Arena yesterday: “COMING THIS FALL – the Signature Club & Lounge at Capital One Arena! Read More
609 H Street, NW
This space was briefly home to Shinwari Grill and was, of course, the long time home to Eat First Restaurant before them.
The liquor license placard for 202 Lounge One says: Read More
501 H Street, NW
It actually happened!!
We first posted some scuttlebutt that a burger place was coming here back in 2017!
Thanks to Amir for sending: “All About Burger in Chinatown is finally open for business!”
Previously home to: Read More
Back in May we were excited to share that Chinatown Regal Cinema was still open! Back in January it was reported they’d be permanently closing. Now, Read More
704 7th Street, NW
Thanks to Peter for sending: “I walked by the Eat Brgz location in Chinatown and it’s papered over. Check the website and it’s gone.
That didn’t last long.”
In happier news it looks like the new West End location (formerly Grillfish) opened: Read More