Inside 7056 Carroll Avenue. Photo courtesy Cielo Rojo
From the Old Takoma Business Assocation:
“Cielo Rojo is now open now at 7056 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park. This new family-owned, fine-casual Mexican restaurant serves traditional cuisine including tacos, enchiladas, pozole, gorditas, carnitas, salsas, moles and more. Tortillas are handmade in-house, grinding their heirloom corn that comes from Oaxaca, Mexico. There is a carefully crafted tequila and mezcal menu and cocktails. (more…)
via Mansa Kunda
Thanks to Evan for sending:
“Heads up on a new West African restaurant serving (currently) breakfast through dinner that just opened in Takoma Park in the last couple weeks. Only seen a couple people in the place yet, but it looks nice and has a heck of a long wine list for such a small space. Near Erie & Flower Aves.”
Check out their menu here.
341 Cedar Street, NW courtesy Old Takoma Business Association
From the Old Takoma Business Association:
“Elife Restaurant, formerly Evolve, located at 341 Cedar St, NW in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, DC is part of the collection of vegan soul food restaurants owned by founder, Dr. Baruch Ben-Yehudah. This location opened in 2014 and, in addition to this name change, is now incorporating menu items from its sister restaurants in Capitol Heights, MD, Anacostia as well as Vegaritos, formerly at 6904 4th St, NW. (more…)
Thanks to Leet for sending:
“it looks like someone is trying to substantially redevelop the old La Mano Coffee spot on Carroll St. NW, right across from the Metro parking lot.”
STAY TUNED.
304 Carroll Street, NW
via google maps
Around 11:45pm Teach4theStars wrote us:
“TON of police activity on Carroll Street NW (right on the Takoma/Takoma Park border)”
Jonathan L-D wrote us:
“keep an eye out for info about a serious police chase down NH toward DC passing through TKPK in Montgomery and Prince Georges County at 11:30pm tonight. Around 20+ PrinceGeorgesMD police and perhaps others in pursuit. Heard skids and a smash by the car being chased.”
Video by Nicolas M. Leon:
Updates when/if more is released.
4th and Butternut Street, NW
From a press release:
“Lost Sock Roasters (Serving Call your Mother Bagels) and Turning Natural Coming to Takoma Theater with Children’s Hospital in 2019
Rock Creek Property Group, in partnership with Children’s National Health System, is pleased to announce that Turning Natural and Lost Sock Roasters have signed leases to anchor the retail space at the historic Takoma Theatre project. These exciting beverage and food operators join anchor tenant Children’s National’s Healthy Mind Brain Center at the 23,000 square foot former theater, located at Butternut and Fourth Streets, NW a few blocks from the Takoma Metro station.
Lost Sock Roasters is a small-batch artisanal coffee roaster located in the Brightwood Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. Lost Sock Roasters will feature fresh brewed coffee drinks and food from the popular Call Your Mother café in Petworth. Founded and run by former college roommates, Jeff Yerxa and Nicolas Cabrera, this will be the first stand-alone retail outpost for this successful roastery that currently sells wholesale and at local cafes such as Call Your Mother and Anxo Cidery.
Turning Natural is a juice bar and café that features cold-pressed juices, nutritious food options, and natural ingredients. (more…)
6929 Laurel Avenue via Facebook
Passed on from the Old Takoma Business Association:
“Dear Takoma Park community and loyal PollySue’s customers,
Today is the 19th anniversary of PollySue’s Vintage Shop. We opened opened on November 1, 1999. My desire to find and share the most beautiful, one of a kind vintage clothes with others was the motivation to start the business but it because so much more. In the nineteen years, we have seen a generation grow up and start their own families. We have outfitted countless brides, prom-goers, theatrical productions and photo shoots. The shop has weathered recessions, elections, blizzards, and hurricanes.
It is with equal amounts of hopefulness and sadness that I announce that PollySue’s will be closing on December 31, 2018. (more…)
From MPD:
“On October 28, 2018 at approximately 3:50am, the sounds of gunshots were detected in the area of 6th & Otis Pl NW. Upon MPD units arriving on scene, officers located a black handgun containing an extended magazine and two spent shell casings on the street.
If anyone has investigation regarding this offense, please feel free to contact MPD at (202) 727-9099.”
and
“At approximate 10:30 pm last night (Saturday) in the 6700 block of 14th Street, N.W, the Metropolitan Police Department responded for the sounds of gunshots. An individual in the area was stopped and questioned, however the officers cleared the assignment without incident or evidence of gunfire.”
and
“On Sunday, October 28th, 2018, at approximately 1150 PM there was the sound of gunshots in the 500 block of Roxboro Place NW where one male was found stuck by a round in an extremity causing a non-life threatening injury following a verbal argument with the assailant.”
Courtesy: ABC’s Shark Tank
From a press release:
“Soupergirl, the small-batch, healthy soup company, will battle Sunday for a deal on ABC’s Shark Tank. CEO Sara Polon will appear on Shark Tank on Sunday, October 21st, to try to cook up a deal with the celebrity Sharks.
Polon is a former stand-up comedian turned soup entrepreneur. She will appear on the Shark Tank episode with her mother, Soupergirl co-founder Marilyn Polon. (more…)
Photos by Sam Kittner
From the City of Takoma Park:
“Takoma Park is more than 100 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean, but a 17-foot-long octopus somehow found its way here and wrapped its giant tentacles around the downtown clock tower.
In a public art project commissioned by the City of Takoma Park, fiber artist Stacy Cantrell crocheted the huge octopus in the City’s colors of orange, yellow, green, and blue. With help from her husband and a friend, she installed the creature recently on the clock tower in Ward Sinclair Plaza at the intersection of Laurel Avenue and Carroll Avenue. Then she watched the smiles and dropped jaws from surprised people walking by. (more…)