1319 F Street, NW
Washington Business Journal reported:
“Gill has tapped former Sette Osteria and Cafe Milano chef Carmen Piazza as the restaurant’s executive chef. She will design a menu of “modern, Italian comfort food,” said Gill. The 6,000-square-foot restaurant will also include a 1,400-square-foot dance floor so the restaurant can transition into a lounge atmosphere on weekends.”
Opening June 7th:
The video screens that if I recall correctly are part of an art display are getting installed at CityCenter. We’ll revisit when they’re finished but it def. looks promising.
1107 19th Street, NW
Crumbs opened up in the former Schakolad chocolate shop back in Jan. 2012. A call to their 11th and F St location confirms that the 19th Street store is permanently closed. Thanks to a reader for sending word.
Photo by PoPville flickr user Laura_Grageda
From the National Gallery of Art [6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW]:
“The Jazz in the Garden Series begins its 14th season in May. The free concert series features jazz artists performing a wide variety of styles—salsa, blues fusion, xylophone, Afrofunk, and more—every Friday evening from 5:00 to 8:30 in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
Guests may purchase food and beverages from the Pavilion Café and its carts located around the Garden or bring their own picnics. Alcoholic beverages may not be brought to the premises from outside and are subject to confiscation. Security officers reserve the right to inspect all items brought into the Sculpture Garden.
Elikeh (Afro-funk from Togo)
May 23 from 5:00 to 8:30
Sculpture Garden
Bruce Ewan (blues harmonica) (more…)
@ryan2499 tweets us:
“New bicycle signal at Rhode Island Ave, M St, Connecticut Ave is too darn cute.”
First one I’ve seen of these in DC. Nice.
Photo by PoPville flickr user clif_burns
From a press release:
“This fall, Washingtonians can anticipate the opening of RareSweets, a bakeshop and specialty dessert company located in downtown’s CityCenterDC development. Founded by pastry chef Meredith Tomason, who has held high-profile pastry roles such as pastry chef at Tom Colicchio’s lauded Craft Restaurant, and stints at Tribeca Treats and the famed Magnolia Bakery.
RareSweets will be Tomason’s first brick and mortar location, and will focus on seasonally driven American heirloom cakes, ice creams, and confections reimagined for a modern palate. Tomason selected D.C. as the location to launch RareSweets for its growing food culture, which she has found to be very welcoming of food entrepreneurs, particularly at Union Kitchen, where she has been working to sell her goods wholesale and at pop-ups until the CityCenterDC space is ready.”
You can see some of their menu options here.
“Dear PoPville,
I have watched this project develop over the past month. I had some reservations as recently as last week, but I have to say the finished product is a nice addition of open sidewalk space and inviting seating.”
From a press release:
“The nation’s capital, which is already a leader in green infrastructure, will soon have four new rain gardens to add to its efforts in one of the most heavily trafficked neighborhoods.
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District will hold a ribbon cutting for four new rain gardens that it designed and built at 19th and L Streets, N.W., at noon on May 21.
The gardens, which total 2,280 square feet, have vegetation that will attract butterflies and bees. Rain gardens mimic natural hydrology; they help divert water and keep it within the aquifer and out of streams and rivers.”
Recently renovated building at 20th and L Street, NW
Thanks to @SamanthaPollack for tweeting us word about the new signage:
1030 15th Street, NW
G Street Food’s downtown location is getting ready to open this Thursday. In addition to their lunch options this location will be: “a full-service restaurant specializing in international street food with a twist”. Dinner will be available 4 – 10pm only at 1030 15th Street, NW. Check out the awesome looking dinner menu here.
Perched at 11th and Massachusetts Ave, NW – Edmund Burke:
“an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.
He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the “Old Whigs”, in opposition to the pro–French Revolution “New Whigs”, led by Charles James Fox.
Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.”
