1309 F Street, NW
Last week we learned about District Taco’s planned Capitol Hill location in the former YES! Organic Market space at 656 Pennsylvania Ave, SE. And now they’ve applied for a liquor license at their downtown location. You can see their menu here.
City Center Rising Downtown at 9th-11th Street, NW
Last Friday we spoke about the type of retail/restaurants we were looking forward to seeing at the gigantic CityCenter DC project downtown. Last night ANC Rep Rachelle Nigro tweeted a piece of the puzzle:
“Del Frisco Steakhouse coming to CityCenter project”
In June Del Frisco’s Grille opened in the long vacant Les Halles space at 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. It’ll be interesting to see if the Del Frisco’s coming to CityCenter will be a proper steakhouse or a Grille. You can see the Steakhouse menus here. You can see the Grille menu here.
3232 11th Street, NW
Back in Jan. 2012 we learned that Room 11 would be expanding next door into the former Jeans n Things space at 11th and Lamont St, NW. The renovations have been completed – and the expansion looks just as good if not better than the original space:
Room 11’s general manager Jessica Woods explains the expansion:
We envisioned the new space as a European-style cafe, offering simple but high-quality espresso beverages, coffee and tea. At night, our new bar menu will offer a few rotating cocktails highlighting aperitifs and digestifs. These cocktails will be available throughout all of Room 11 (wine bar and expansion cafe) and guests at the new bar may order any current Room 11 bar offering, we’ll just run it over from the current space.
In the morning, we’ll open at 8 a.m. each day, offering coffee service through dinner. We’ll have a small breakfast menu to start, highlighting pastries, and begin to offer lunch at 11 a.m.
At dinner, the full current Room 11 menu is available in all spaces. As you know, our new chef, Adam Howard, started Monday. So far he’s focused his attention on getting familiar with our space and drafting a lunch menu, but we’re excited to see him rolling out new dishes on the dinner menu as the winter progresses.
The new space has 12 table seats and 6 bar seats, enough to significantly decrease the wait for a space in the winter, but (we think) not so many that we endanger our intimate vibe.
Having stopped in last night I can def. say the vibe is intact! Have a look:
More photos after the jump. (more…)
717 8th Street, SE
A liquor license has recently been posted at the long vacant building at 717 8th Street, SE on Barracks Row. It says a new restaurant called Rose’s Luxury is coming:
“New full service restaurant serving an eclectic mix of American cuisine. No live entertainment. Seating capacity is 75. Occupancy load is 90.”
Their website says:
“DC’s most exclusively unexclusive new restaurant coming soon!”
415 New Jersey Avenue, NW
From a press release:
Four years after Celebrity Chef Art Smith opened Art and Soul in The Liaison Capitol Hill, an Affinia hotel, the regionally-inspired restaurant with a Southern accent, is undergoing a physical transformation. Plans include new interiors for the restaurant, bar, private dining room and lobby and a fine-tuned, artisanal farm-to-table menu. Art and Soul will close on January 22, immediately following Presidential Inauguration activities, and is scheduled to re-open the week of February 18.
“Our menu is constantly changing with the seasons and dining trends, and after more than four successful years, it’s time for Art and Soul to get a makeover,” said Chef/Owner Art Smith. “The soulful Southern-inspiration behind the Capitol Hill restaurant that Washingtonians have come to know and love will remain, but we are giving her a new pair of shoes, so to speak, so she can dance on for many more years to come.”
Interior Redesign
Seattle-based Hospitality Design firm, Dawson Design Associates, is the team behind the Art and Soul renovation. Using various natural and rustic elements the team will create an indoor urban market feel to compliment the approachable, modern, farm-to-table menu.Herringbone wood flooring will replace carpet throughout the restaurant, bar and lobby. New light fixtures, various textured wall treatments and graphics will bring the look and feel of the outdoors inside. Banquettes will be replaced by free-standing tables to complement the urban market ambience, and a playful wall sculpture comprised of different types of beans will stretch along one side of the restaurant, as a nod to Southern cooking. The market-to-table motif is further strengthened by elements found in The District’s many urban gardens and expressed in wall dividers and screens.
520 Florida Avenue, NW
Shaw’s Tavern has launched their new menu Friday night.
Sound good?
You can see all their menus here.
1208 H Street, NE
“Dear PoPville,
I was walking down H Street and Souk was closed on a Saturday night. Do you have information if it closed?I enjoyed it the few times I went but it was never crowded.”
I called their phone number and unfortunately it’s been disconnected as has their website.
Souk opened at 1208 H St, NE back in Oct. 2009. Any fans?
2301 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington Business Journal’s Michael Neibauer shares news of a permit for a FroZenYo set to come to the 2300 block of Georgia Ave. This is the block with a Potbelly’s at the corner. I stopped by over the weekend and work had already begun on the Fuel Pizza also coming to the block.
Back in July I shared some scuttlebutt that a Shake Shack would be coming to the Spy Museum cafe at the corner of 9th and F Street, NW. Shake Shack has now applied for a liquor license with the hours of 11am-11pm:
“A restaurant serving American cuisine specializing in burgers and shakes with a seating capacity of 58 and total occupancy load of 126. Request a sidewalk cafe with a seating capacity of 44.”
And a little more scuttlebutt for ya – I hear they are looking at a location for another new spot in Georgetown as well. Stay tuned. We judged Shake Shack’s Dupont location back in Sept. 2011.
1128 H Street, NE
Cusbah is located at the corner of 12th and H Street, NE. Their website says:
The Cusbah concept was created on the pretense that a hybrid American South Asian restaurant experience did not exist, at least not in Washington DC. We wanted to create a building block based on authentic Pakistani and North Indian cuisine, while providing an atmosphere rooted in multi-cultural America.
Cusbah literally translates to “little village”
With that translation, we hope to bring that sense of a “little village” or neighborhood bar and restaurant where there’s something for everyone to the ever changing H Street Corridor. Keeping in mind that DC is constantly evolving, we have many ideas and concepts that will hopefully keep us one step ahead of the game. We envision our restaurant to be the place where you grab a damn good Kebab, Curry or Naan and wash it down with a nice cold quality beer or cocktail all while listening to great music.
You can see their menu here.
Any fans? Any must order items?