Half Smoke Still Coming to Shaw, Now with a bigger Summer Garden too

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by Prince Of Petworth June 7, 2016 at 10:22 pm 13 Comments

651 Florida Avenue, NW

Back in November of last year we learned that Half Smoke would be “serving sausages and other fast, casual menu items” at 7th/Georgia and Florida Ave, NW. I was starting to wonder if this was still happening and I guess it is because they just posted an addendum to their liquor license placard:

“Applicant requested to increase the seating capacity for the Summer Garden from 24 seats to 50 seats.”

Stay tuned…

Jeff

DC’s finest bureaucrats will be pushing the paperwork though with great haste. It should be opened in 2 years.
Truxton Thomas

I peered in this morning, and they were digging out part of the interior. Big piles of dirt inside. Anyway, several workers working.
- 7thStTechGuy
  
  Yea, they are a long way off, did something similar the other day.
stacksp

Assuming the summer garden is going in the interior, how does that work when its cold out? Heat Lamps?
- Anon
  
  I wouldn’t make that assumption. The building takes up just about the entire plot – there’s no space for a “summer garden” but on the roof.
  - stacksp
    
    ahhh… didnt think about the roof.
plowdodger

Prediction: this place will close within 18 months of opening.
Jean-Claude

Such a nice corner building being wasted with yet another cheap restaurant “serving sausages and other fast, casual menu items” .
- L
  
  You would prefer small plates?
  - Jean-Claude
    
    I would have preferred retail, a gym, or even a nice classy restaurant.
- stacksp
  
  Agreed.
Prime Real Estate

This would have been a perfect location for a Shake Shack or Chick Fil-A
Bloomy

RIP Beauty Island.

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