3110 Mt. Pleasant Street, NW
Major love for Martha Dear in magical Mount Pleasant:
“5 YEARS AGO TODAY WE OPENED OUR DOORS!! ALL GAS, NO BRAKES.
BEYOND GRATEFUL TO OUR GUESTS AND STAFF (PAST AND PRESENT). THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR DREAM FROM DAY ONE. LOVE T + D.” (more…)
“The Mount Pleasant Perpetual Stew Project
a free stone soup-style community meal for these trying times ✨ the stew returns, winter 2025
The Stew is back! Your faithful stewards will be back in action January 10th to kick off our next season. We’ll be back in Lamont Plaza, ladles ready and arms open 💛🫛🥔🥕🌽🧅 ” (more…)
2001 18th Street, NW
OK, finally some action at the old Imperial space at 18th and U! A liquor license application has been posted for Carla/Harrigan & Rock Fine & Rare. Details are slim at the moment: (more…)
1251 9th Street, NW
Thanks to Tony for sending the closed sign on the door of Union Kitchen: ‘We are closed sorry for any inconvenience’
“Union Kitchen @ 9th/N NW has been closed for the past few days. Maybe permanently? Shame, since it was one of the last
few places to get a coffee after 7 p.m. Looks like it’s the 7-11 a few blocks north, or suffer through the evening :-)” (more…)
Thanks to W. for sending the latest from Union Station parking situation this morning: “They are back. Police, k-9 units, and DHS per the window stickers, decals, and tags.” (more…)
inside 410 7th Street, NW photo by Chris Bryan
From a press release:
“PubKey, the celebrated Greenwich Village “Bitcoin bar” where conversations around the future of sound money, monetary policy and technology flow as easily as the drinks, will open its much-anticipated DC flagship location at 410 Seventh St. NW in Penn Quarter on Dec. 19.
The 12,000-square foot space – the former Hill Country – represents a major expansion from PubKey’s 2,000-square-foot NYC location. The two-story space will allow PubKey DC to bring to life a welcoming, irreverent pub with a media studio, event stage and speaker series on cutting-edge topics across freedom tech and policy, a private dining room, community events such as trivia and karaoke and chophouse-style restaurant opening in the new year, all under a single roof.
Inspired by the historical role of taverns as free-thinking hotbeds for revolutions, (more…)
Thanks to Jesse for sending:
“This mad little habanero refuses to believe it’s December in DC. Still fruiting like it’s July in Havana while the rest of us are shivering. Respect.” (more…)
4235 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Action at the old &pizza space. Before the &pizza’s brief tenure here the space was previously home to Squisito pizza and pasta (also was once planned to be a Pie Five Pizza Co.) and a Buredo before them. So what’s coming now? (more…)
photo by Rick Anderson
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Almost missed this tasty news from Doubles last week:
“BIG NEWS!!! We are launching FRIDAY LUNCH SLICES from Sonny’s Pizza this week! 🍕🥳
Every Friday from 12 – 3 PM you can order slices of (more…)