1829 M Street, NW
Ed. Note: This space was most recently home to Flipside Filipino restaurant which closed in January.
Thanks to the folks at Cafe Mia for letting us know they’ve opened and sharing their Menu (PDF) with us. “Our specialty is Peruvian style rotisserie chicken but we serve other great items as well.” They also have a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Sandwich served on brioche for $6 :)
Peek inside: (more…)
1346 4th Street, SE
From a press release:
“Chef Michael Rafidi, one of Washington, D.C.’s most promising culinary talents, announces a February 20 opening for Albi, his Navy Yard restaurant with a new perspective on traditional Levantine cuisine. Arabic for “my heart,” Albi will offer a menu inspired by Rafidi’s Middle Eastern heritage and informed by Mid-Atlantic ingredients. Rafidi’s highly anticipated debut restaurant is located at 1346 4th Street SE in The Yards development, offering a main dining room of 76 seats, a 10-seat hearth table, a seasonal patio, and private dining space within 4,000-square-feet. Rafidi is also consulting on the menu at a second location of Brent Kroll’s wine bar, Maxwell Park, which will open next door to Albi in about a month, while Kroll is behind Albi’s exciting wine program. (more…)
We got Meatloaf at Gallery Place/Chinatown, repeat Meatloaf at Gallery Place/Chinatown. Thanks to Brittany for sending!
*This series will feature any pets in a backpack/bag. On metro, or not. Corgi, or not.
You’ve probably never read your building’s property management contract all the way through. Most board members haven’t either. If you did, you’d find a carefully defined scope of work — vendors coordinated, maintenance dispatched, assessments collected, reports generated.
What you wouldn’t find: anything about fiduciary duties. Reserve funding strategy. Compliance tracking. Case documentation. Institutional memory. The legal obligations that make your board personally accountable to unit owners.
That’s not an oversight in the contract. It’s the contract. Property management was never designed to cover governance. And yet most boards — paying $10,000 to $18,000 a year for the service — assume it does.
Operations and governance are different jobs. One has a contract. The other has a fiduciary duty.
Beyond the management fee, most property management companies mark up vendor invoices — the plumber, the landscaper, the elevator contractor — by 10 to 15 percent before passing the bill to the association. It’s legal. It’s common. And boards have almost no visibility into it. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
It’s not massively exciting, but it’s puzzling me:
Can anyone explain the random old school loud speaker on the front of this Capitol Hill row house? Doesn’t look like part of an official emergency alert system and I’ve not seen similar elsewhere. Is it just an odd home burglary thing, or a way to yell at the neighbor kids?”
Ed. Note: Isn’t this part of the old school fire alarms?
15th and D Street, NE
Gogi Yogi, Iron Age (soon) and add one more to the list of new Korean BBQ spots – Manna!
Thanks to Dan (and Barred in DC) for sending:
“The generic District Bowls is (thankfully) gone before it even opened. Korean BBQ and lunchbox place supposedly opening soon in the old Far East Taco spot!”
Ed. Note: This was also previously and briefly home to K Burger, hopefully this ride lasts longer.
Manna’s website says:
“Manna Dosirak is the casual Korean food joint located in Washington, DC. Its deep and authentic taste of Korean food comes for the owner who has been in this field over 30 years. Always use fresh ingredients to bring the best of Korean food to our valued customer always.”
The food looks amazing: (more…)
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Artemis II and Beyond,” on how the recent space mission fits into long-term plans for the Moon, with Michael J. Neufeld, retired senior curator for the Space History Department of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
NASA’s recent, spectacular Artemis II mission is a sign that the United States is serious about sending humans to the Moon again.
Thanks to a reader for sending: “I live next door to a new construction project at 4th and Rhode Island ave in Edgewood. During the Demo of the old abandoned buildings we noticed this gem of a sign and wanted to share!”
If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks. (more…)
I got tons of messages yesterday starting around 5:30pm like this one:
“I just saw 10+ uniformed police at Columbia Heights metro, complete with a table set up for bag searches and a scanning device of some sort. A few uniforms said anti-terrorism, others TSA. I heard them telling people they stopped that checks were random. Do you have any context on this?”
Metro Transit Police have been doing random searches since at least 2008. We also spoke about random inspections in 2010.
Explanation from 2010: (more…)
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1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Back in October we broke the news that Del Frisco’s Grille would likely be closing in D.C. Indeed they did. Next up: Monterrey. The liquor license placard says: (more…)
Thanks to Eric for sending from Petworth. Check out the passenger inside: (more…)