Restaurants
From a press release:
“Restaurant industry professionals and their allies gathered tonight at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for the 41st Annual RAMMY Awards as Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) announced winners and a range of special distinctions in a number of categories celebrating excellence in long-standing categories that range from individual professional honors to accolades celebrating culinary concepts and service.
This year’s category changes included a move from Pastry Chef of the Year to Pastry Chef or Baker of the Year, ensuring the area’s many outstanding bakers and pastry chefs were recognized, and introduced Best Bar as a publicly voted category, recognizing the magnitude of nightlife establishments in the region. Similar to past years, publicly voted categories were open to any eligible restaurant or foodservice operation in the region, regardless of RAMW membership. For the very first time, both the finalists and winners for the five publicly voted categories were chosen by the public.
The 2023 RAMMY Awards Winners are (*denotes publicly voted category*): (more…)
From an email:
“To our loyal, valued guests and members of the DC dining community:
KNEAD Hospitality + Design owns and operates eight full-service restaurants in Washington, DC. At KNEAD, taking care of our teammates and guests is, and always has been, the top priority.
Recently, DC voters passed Initiative 82, which abolishes the tipped minimum wage over the next four years. If you’re not familiar with the tipped minimum wage, it allows restaurants to pay tipped staff below the regular minimum wage as long as they ensure (inclusive of tips) that their employees receive at least the minimum wage. That being said, directly tipped staff in KNEAD restaurants average $30-$60 per hour (depending on location), well above minimum wage. (more…)
Remember when the Real World folks stopped by. There was a time. There was a time… (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: (more…)
3518 Connecticut Ave, NW
Apparently the wonderful Dolan Uyghur Restaurant in Cleveland Park has great coffee options: (more…)
1355 H Street, NE via IG
A regular reported to me via email last night around 8pm: “Biergarten Haus is closing at the end of tonight. Rumored to reopen in September. But….September is skeptical…. Haven’t seen an official notice yet.”
Still no official word on their social media but Fritz Hahn tweeted around 10pm: “Breaking: Biergarten Haus is closing tonight, after 13 years on H Street. Staff found out today. Am told there’s a chance it reopens Sept. 1, but that seems iffy.
This is purely a business decision, has nothing to do with the lease.” (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I took this picture on Sunday with the sole intent of sending to you. This time at Bistro Du Jour. Glad the Mi Vida person sent theirs because it’s evidence that this seems to be implemented at most if not all Knead locations.”
Looks like they all have them at the bottom of their DC menus: (more…)
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Update from h: “They are open. First day was 7/4” and a peek at the goods:
“Dear PoPville,
Do you know if Dumpling Hot Pot on H Street are open yet? They show up on Uber Eats, (more…)
From YELLOW (1524 Wisconsin Avenue, NW):
“WELCOME TO THE HABIBI PITA CLUB
Join us this FRIDAY 7.07.23 to kick off YELLOW’s new series; where we invite local chefs to collaborate on a wood-fired pita sandwich and soft serve special.
First up, Chef Danny Lee of Anju, Mandu, and CHIKO. Korean American by way of DC, YELLOW is excited to feature both the: (more…)