New Restaurant Coming to Former Zola Space to be Called Nopa Kitchen and Bar

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by Prince Of Petworth January 30, 2013 at 10:30 am 17 Comments

8th and F Street, NW

The Post’s Tom Sietsema tweets the name for the new restaurant taking over the former Zola space at the corner of 8th and F St, NW:

Ashok Bajaj finally has a name for his American brasserie @ 800 F St. NW: Nopa Kitchen + Bar, a reference to “north of Pennsylvania Ave.”

SoMo supporters will be pleased…

Anonymous

Ew, really? Can we please just stop the NYC-envy business’ seem to be projecting onto us?
- Anonymous
  
  *businesses ::goes to find more coffee before writing anything else::
- jacquesofalltrades
  
  I’m annoyed by the constinuation of SoHo (NoMa, AdMo, CoHi, LoMo, etc. etc. etc.) name, but it also makes me feel like I’m at a Greek wedding:
  
  “nOPA!!!”
  - Gee
    
    good one, jacquesofalltrades
Rebecca

That’s a pretty bad name. At first glance in the headline, I thought the name was Nope. Seems like a name that sets you up for bad review puns.
Anonymous

Do I want to eat there? Nopa!
- Anonymous
  
  Right?! They didn’t put together that their chosen name sounds like “nope”? Didn’t anyone learn anything from Chevy trying to sell the Nova in Mexico?!
  - saf
    
    Actually: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Anonymous

They could name it after Parks and Recreation and call it “Knopa.”
Anonymous

On an unrelated note, The Spy Mueseum is the biggest waste of time and money out there. Just horrible.
- Anonymous
  
  Speak for yourself. I really enjoyed my visit there.
textdoc

Nope to NoPA! (Which should really be NoPe, anyway.)

And no mo’ to SoMo!
thomsenite

Stop trying to make Nopa happen.
Rococo

Are Gallery Place, Chinatown and Penn Quarter not enough damn names for this neighborhood?
guest

Ba-jay-jay would be better.
figby

It’s an “American brasserie.” Any name was going to be stupid.
jumpingjack

At first glance I was exciting, thinking that this would be a DC-location of San Francisco’s Nopa, an amazing restaurant (whose name is a shortened form of North of the Panhandle).

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