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“Delikatessen Pop-Up Coming to All-Purpose Shaw!”

By Prince Of Petworth


photos courtesy All Purpose

From an email:

“All-Purpose in Shaw will soon have a special weekend menu of Jewish deli-style platters, specialty sandwiches, latkes, and desserts available alongside the pizzeria’s regular weekend lunch menu.

Partnering with Bullfrog Bagels, the menu includes classic bagel platters with house-smoked lox, a selection of house-made cream cheeses and salads, and house-pickled vegetables. (more…)

“Ivy and Coney, DC’s home for tube meat sandwiches and baseball, is excited to announce that we’re reopening the roof deck for in-house dining and imbibing on Thursday, July 23.”

By Prince Of Petworth


1537 7th Street, NW

From Ivy and Coney:

“Ivy and Coney, DC’s home for tube meat sandwiches and baseball, is excited to announce that we’re reopening the roof deck for in-house dining and imbibing on Thursday, July 23. After making some facility upgrades and implementing coronavirus safety procedures in order to account for a new style of service, we’re ready to open up Thursdays through Sundays (to start). We’re also excited to announce our newest feature, just in the nick of time for baseball: The Ivy Club.

Do you miss going to baseball games? We sure do. And since none of us will be entering the Friendly Confines or Nats’ Park any time soon, we’ve created the next best thing. Fans (of baseball or the bar) will be able to reserve games, enjoy all-you-can-eat-and-drink specials, while watching their hometown favorite on our big screen in authentic baseball stadium seating. Expect renditions of the 7th inning stretch in the voice of Harry Caray, t-shirt tosses and bellies full of regional food favorites (see below). Reservations for The Ivy Club can be made online here, at least 24 hours in advance. We’ll even open up the bar early for you and your friends to watch day games, whether we’re planning to open that day or not. (more…)

“Our little cozy narrow restaurant feels very empty these days, and we are approaching a breaking point.”

By Prince Of Petworth


1316 9th Street, NW

From San Lorenzo:

“Amici miei / My friends,

Twenty years after arriving to Washington DC from Tuscany, the opening of San Lorenzo – my first very own restaurant – two years ago was one of my biggest personal accomplishments, and definitely something that I cherish as one of my best achievements as a man and as a chef.

Sadly, for as good as the memories that I had when I opened this restaurant, things have changed a lot for me as a chef and a restaurant owner as of March 2020.

Since the initial days of the COVID19 shutdown, we very much wanted to give back to first responders in the best way that we could, so we made meals for our local DC Fire House and healthcare workers at GWU Hospital. In the months that followed and up until the present day, we’ve continued to make meals for frontline staff at Children’s and GWU Hospitals, as it also keeps our own spirits up.

But times have also been very tough for us. It began with the shutdown that kept us from having customers inside the restaurant at all and forced us to sell our Tuscan delicacies and pantry items to-go so that we could stay alive. Now, with the partial re-opening at 50% capacity, things have not gotten much better; the number of customers that we serve daily is barely in double digits.

Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of having a patio and we can’t accommodate people outside on our 9th St. sidewalk. Our little cozy narrow restaurant feels very empty these days, and we are approaching a breaking point. We really need to have customers come out to support us so that we can stay alive. (more…)

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