Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant Cocktail Week is coming up!

By Prince Of Petworth

October 23-27, 2004

“Mount Pleasant Cocktail Week 2024 is the inaugural 5 day event in the Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood of Washington DC where enthusiasts and bartenders can come together to celebrate and explore the world of craft cocktail and bartending along the Mt. Pleasant Street Corridor that features an eclectic mix of restaurants and bars reflecting the neighborhood’s diverse and vibrant character. This event is an opportunity for the businesses and residents of one of Washington DC’s most unique neighborhoods to come together, network, share knowledge, and to give back to the neighborhood and community that supports us. The main goal of this event is to make improvements in the restoration and preservation of Mount Pleasant by promoting our dynamic cocktail and beverage scene and draw more traffic to the whole commercial corridor. (more…)

“The Brown Street Maker Cooperative is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing its members with the space, materials, and tools to build a wide variety of crafts and to engage in sustainability projects.”

By Prince Of Petworth


3320 Brown Street, NW

“Dear PoPville,

Yo! Old pan-am market in Mt. Pleasant is turning into a maker space cooperative “Brown Street Maker Cooperative” coming 2025!! “29th best neighborhood” (in the world!!) in America keeping up with the name?”

“The Brown Street Maker Cooperative is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing its members with the space, materials, and tools to build a wide variety of crafts and to engage in sustainability projects.” (more…)

Legendary arbiter of all cool things, TimeOut, names Mount Pleasant the 29th “coolest neighbourhood in the world”!!

By Prince Of Petworth

Ed. Note: For the record I’ve proclaimed Mount Pleasant one of the top 5 coolest neighborhoods in the world since 1997. What an awesome group house you had Katie, Holly, Chris and co.!

But I do love that the props are coming from far and wide. Well deserved! Thanks to CD for sending TimeOut‘s “38 Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World Right Now”:

“We quizzed our global network of on-the-ground experts to find the coolest neighbourhoods on the planet. These are the places to visit, like, now

29. Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is hands-down one of the most beloved neighbourhoods in DC. North of Adams Morgan and adjacent to Columbia Heights, the neighbourhood became a multicultural melting pot from the ’60s onward thanks to many Central American, African and Vietnamese immigrants putting down roots. Its culinary scene is anchored by Mount Pleasant Street, a foodie paradise packed with locally-owned restaurants that celebrate the neighbourhood’s immigrant heritage. Though it’s starting to see heavy development, residents fiercely love and protect Mount Pleasant, (more…)

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