403 H Street, NE
Cane opened April 22nd in the former Uni Bistro/Batter Bowl Bakery space!!
“Chef Peter Prime’s modern take on Trinidad’s most popular Indian and Creole street foods. Enjoy house specialties including roti, jerk, and rum cocktails.”
Check out their menu here. Anyone take an early taste?
Albemarle and 40th Street, NW. Photo by Katelynd Anderson
Thanks to Katelynd for sending the update:
“Tenleytown Wawa coming along quickly in the old Sears space.”
14th and Irving Street, NW
And for those following the Columbia Heights Wawa – their Grand Opening is now set for May 23rd at 10am!!
1560 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Bharati only opened up in the original Dolcezza space in April 2018. This can’t be good: (more…)
625 H Street, NE
The great Buredo bloodletting of 2018 hit the H Street location back in August. I saw some work going on in the space this week and found out it is going to become a Rice Bar. (more…)
1714 Connecticut Ave, NW
Check out Rosemarino D’Italia’s menu here.
Girardi tells us: “the best Italian restaurant in Alexandria is expanding into the District.” (more…)
317 7th Street, SE above Bullfrog Bagels
“Dear PoPville,
Pesce Too (sister to Pesce in Dupont now located at 2002 P Street, NW) is now open as a popup…the owner indicated they would be there as long as they are wanted. We had dinner the other night at Pesce Too and it was delicious. 6 tables of 4 plus small bar seating…open wed through Saturday and they should be here through the summer.”
Check out their menu: (more…)
3907 14th Street, NW. The Rib Pit Lounge sign lives!! Photos courtesy Lucy’s
Ed. Note: Gonna have to revisit our best burger list sooner than I thought.
From a press release:
“Meet “Lucy’s,” a bar and burger spot aiming to do a few simple things really well. Lucy’s is located above Little Coco’s in the space formerly hosting Coco Beach and Hot Coco popup bars. They will return in summer and winter within Lucy’s, which is conceived as a permanent bar & grill.
We love burgers. Over the years, we’ve created a wide range of burgers–from decadent old school ones to new school ones with crazy toppings, even a $40 Kobe beef one. We’ve curated extensive beer and cocktail lists. At Lucy’s, we’re going back to basics, offering a small menu of great burgers and fries, accompanied by an unfussy bar with beer, pops and a few delicious cocktails. (more…)
Looking towards 108 Rhode Island Ave, NW
In September 2018 El Camino closed after a four year stay in Bloomingdale (near Boundary Stone.) Well, I got some promising scuttlebutt for fans – I hear it’s reopening in a few weeks!! Word on the street is that there will be a new menu but the name will stay the same and it’ll still be Mexican. STAY TUNED.
Photo by PoPville flickr user Bekah Richards
Ed. Note: After our best burger talk last month I got word of a mythical burger quest by a group of friends and lo and behold here it is.
The gents write:
“Back in 2017 a group of 10 nerds, who also happened to be friends, decided to embark on an epic foodie quest to try the best burgers of DC. Our goal was simple: systematically and rigorously pinpoint the tastiest burger in and around the District. And we were serious. We even bought the domain to BrosWhoBurger.com (and then never did anything with it).
Our starting point was a list of 8 restaurants based on the existing “Best of” lists and hearsay. Over the next two years, this group of 8 ballooned to a whopping 18 burger joints. We still haven’t gone everywhere we have wanted to, but hope to in the years to come.
So how did we approach this journey? Each time we picked a new place, we tried to maximize how many people could join. Usually we got 4-7 of us, but sometimes as low as 2, other times we had as many as 9 of us.
We didn’t have pre-defined criteria for the ratings, but there were some elements we often found ourselves discussing; bun composition and texture, structural integrity, meat taste and juiciness, and overall flavor were key pieces to our rating. We did not factor cost into the equation.
With some minor exceptions, we all ordered the same burger at each place. When we finished, we shared our ratings directly with a designated data collector in order to minimize bias and plopped the ratings into a Google sheet.
NOW, without further ado, our ratings. With each we tried to add a description. Below these are our superlatives. (more…)
You can see best Carryouts here, best Thai here, best liquor stores here, best Ramen here, best Bars here, best Indian and Pakistani here, best Italian/Pizza/Deli here, best Mexican/Salvadoran/Central/Cuban/Latin here, best burgers/fries here, best bakery/bagels here and best gyms here.
The upcoming opening of Tsehay got me thinking about Ethiopian again. It’s definitely time for a refresh since our last look back in 2008. Still high on Dukem? RIP Etete. Where’s your go to these days? Zenebech 2.0 in Adams Morgan? Ethiopic on H Street? Chercher on 9th? Shebelle on 9th?