“The Mount Pleasant Perpetual Stew Project
a free stone soup-style community meal for these trying times ✨ the stew returns, winter 2025
The Stew is back! Your faithful stewards will be back in action January 10th to kick off our next season. We’ll be back in Lamont Plaza, ladles ready and arms open 💛🫛🥔🥕🌽🧅 ” (more…)
660 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
From our friends at Peregrine:
“Wednesday, September 3, is our annual Peregrine Birthday/Customer Appreciation Day! We will be serving complimentary hot and iced coffee all day and also offering $2 off all whole bean coffees at both our Eastern Market and Union Market shops. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Readers concerned about bike theft may be interested in my DIY 70-pound concrete anchor with rebar loops. I’m moving so giving it away. (more…)
555 13th Street, NW at F Street
Thanks to Ian for sending just before 3pm:
“Crazy line for free drink at the new Compass Coffee on F St NE!”
5030 Connecticut Ave NW
I almost missed this: (more…)
photo by Arving Gonzalez
Thanks to Arving for sharing with us:
“We giving away free holiday candy and gingerbread cake and cookie mix at Trader Joe’s Glover Park.”
Gingerbread fans, NOW IS YOUR TIME!!
From DC Vegan (1633 P Street, NW):
“Calling all probies, USAID, & others whose federal employment has been unlawfully terminated: Join us for yoga and a bit of Zen @peastreetyoga for FREE yoga classes Thursdays in March. (more…)
From Nando’s:
“Nando’s Gives Away Their Signature Chicken to Federal Workers (Threatened, Fired, and Otherwise) at All DC-Area Restaurants on Friday, National Employee Appreciation Day
In celebration of National Employee Appreciation Day (that’s a thing), Nando’s PERi-PERi will feed federal workers for free on Friday March 7th. No proof-of-life emails required.
In a nod to the unappreciated federal workforce, all current and recently laid off federal workers in DC, Maryland, and Virginia can dash to Nando’s for a free quarter-chicken and chips (fries) from 2pm to 5pm Friday. (more…)
“On Thursday, Oct. 3 at 10 am, Rose Ave Bakery kicks off a four-day party by distributing 50 free doughnuts to the first 50 visitors in the Museum’s lobby. For this special occasion, Rose Ave Bakery is sharing Baked Alaska in Southeast Asia, a house made brioche donut filled with guava jam topped with toasted coconut meringue, passion fruit, and rose petals. Image courtesy of Rose Ave Bakery. Photo by Flavy Calumba.”
From a media advisory:
“WHAT: The Hirshhorn Museum celebrates a milestone in October 2024: its 50th birthday. Fifty is too big a birthday for one day, or just one cake, so the Museum is partnering with four fine bakeries: Rose Avenue Bakery; Founding Farmers, Fishers, Bakers; Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken and Just Fine Donuts to celebrate the “concrete doughnut” on the National Mall. Between Thursday Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 6, one fine bakery will provide 50 free donuts to be distributed at 10 am in our lobby, one per person, until all have been shared.
Thursday, Oct. 3: (more…)
1704 Connecticut Ave, NW
From an email:
“Dolcezza Gelato has a sweet celebration planned for its 20th birthday, which coincides with National Ice Cream Day.
To thank their customers for 20 years of growth, expansion, and Argentine style gelato, Dolcezza is giving away free scoops of its iconic Chocotorta gelato on National Ice Cream Day, Sunday/Sundae July 21st, which also happens to coincide with its 20th birthday. (more…)