Restaurants

Farmbird, Grilled Chicken Restaurant, Coming Soon to H Street, NE

By Prince Of Petworth

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625 H Street, NE

While we’re on the chicken tip, thanks to a reader for sending word about Farmbird.

This is the building where the Starbucks and Unleashed opened across from the soon to open Whole Foods. Farmbird’s Facebook says:

“Farmbird is a grilled chicken restaurant opening in Washington DC in early 2017. We’ve spent years developing the best way to prepare chicken and are incredibly excited to finally share it! At Farmbird, we slow-roast our chicken, grill it to order, then serve it alongside sauces and sides made from scratch daily.”

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via facebook

Their website says:

“Our menu items are prepared from scratch daily, using fresh ingredients and classic techniques. No freezers, no fryers, no microwaves. We’re committed to serving only the highest quality, never-frozen chicken. Our birds are raised humanely on an all-vegetarian diet without growth hormones or antibiotics on regional farms in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.”

Check out their catering menu here: farmbird_catering_menu (PDF)

625 H Street, NW is the retail of The Anthology building also home to a Buredo coming soon:

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DCA Getting Chick Fil A

By Prince Of Petworth

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Photo by Phoenix Robles

@detectedbeats tweets us:

“Coming soon to #DCA @Reagan_Airport in Terminal C (where Cosi was). Will they be open on Sundays? *…”

End of an Era – Fast Gourmet Closes at 14th and W

By Prince Of Petworth

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14th and W Street, NW

Remember last month when we said Valero had closed but Fast Gourmet remains open? About that. Thanks to James for passing on this story from ABC7:

“The popular 14th Street restaurant just shut down after the District revoked its tax certificate. District officials told ABC7 News the company owes more than $330,000 of taxes.”

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Back in 2010 a reader declared, and many agreed at that time that Fast Gourmet had the best sandwiches in town. RIP.

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Happier days

What is the District’s Dining Scene Still Missing?

By Prince Of Petworth

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We have pined for much in the DC dining world – bagels, pastrami, poke. Have we pined for poke? I do not know but it is sure fun to say, pine for poke. Anyway, pine or not, poke is coming. Pastrami and bagels (to a certain degree) are here. Laotian, Thai, proper pizza, Filipino, Pineapples and Pearls with your fancy Michelin stars are all here. We got it all now. Or do we? What is the DC dining world still missing? Obviously we need a WaWa but what else?

Cotton & Reed Distiller Dinners at Brookland’s Finest Every Tuesday in March – Check Out the Menus

By Prince Of Petworth

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12th and Jackson Street, NE

From an email:

“For the month of March, Brookland’s Finest will partner with local rum distillery Cotton & Reed for the restaurant’s monthly distiller dinner series. Every Tuesday of the month, Brookland’s Finest will feature a three course prix fixe menu, complete with cocktail pairings featuring Cotton & Reed spirits. The first dinner of the month will take place Tuesday, March 7 and each week’s dinner features a variety of dishes such as Caribbean coconut stew, seafood paella, and fried chicken paired with drinks like peppercorn punch and a ginger daiquiri. The second week’s dinner will pay homage to St. Patrick’s Day with items like Irish spring rolls and bangers and mash, and an Irish Daiquiri. All distiller dinners are priced at $35 per guest and full menus can be seen here: (more…)

Italian Restaurant, Rosario from Chef Logan McGear, now hiring at the former Toledo Lounge space, Opening this Month

By Prince Of Petworth

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2435 18th Street, NW

Rosario’s facebook says:

“Scheduled to open March, 2017

Rosario is the brain child of Chef Logan McGear inspired from his many years of working for his late mentor, Rosario Patti, a southern Italian chef.”

Chef Logan McGear is the chef at the excellent Smoke & Barrel BBQ joint located in the former Asylum space, also in Adams Morgan.

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Toledo Lounge closed back in 2012 and was briefly replaced by Libertine. Stay tuned for an exact opening date:

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Amazon Prime Members can now “enjoy delivery from 150 popular restaurants, including Maketto, Ben’s Next Door, Hill Country Barbecue Market, Kapnos, b DC Penn Quarter, and many more”

By Prince Of Petworth

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forever ahead of their time

From a press release:

“Amazon.com today announced that Prime members in the greater Washington, D.C. area can now enjoy delivery from 150 popular restaurants, including Maketto, Ben’s Next Door, Hill Country Barbecue Market, Kapnos, b DC Penn Quarter, and many more. Amazon Restaurants is expanding its delivery territory from Northern Virginia to customers in the Capitol Hill, Georgetown, Adams Morgan, H Street, Shaw, and Downtown neighborhoods, to name a few.

“The hustle and bustle in the nation’s capital can make it difficult to try all the amazing restaurants around town,” said Gus Lopez, general manager of Amazon Restaurants. “Now, Amazon Restaurants makes it easy to skip traffic and get delicious meals from top restaurants conveniently delivered to your office or home in an hour or less.”

Using the Amazon or Prime Now mobile apps or by visiting www.amazon.com/restaurants, Prime members in D.C. can order from participating restaurants, browse menus, track the status of their delivery, and watch as their delivery driver travels from the restaurant to the delivery address in real time.

Once an order is placed, the food will be delivered in one hour or less. Amazon Restaurants offers customers transparent pricing—there are no menu markups. If a customer finds a restaurant item on Amazon Restaurants that is priced higher than the regularly priced item on the restaurant’s current online menu within 24 hours of placing the order, Amazon will refund that customer the price of the item.

“Who doesn’t love being a Prime member and all the benefits that come with it?” said Jesse Hiney, general manager of Osteria Morini DC. “Now my customers will be able to get our delicious pasta delivered right to their doors. Sounds dangerous in a delicious way!”

New Participating Restaurants in Washington, D.C. include: (more…)

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