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The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) announced its Summer Restaurant Week which starts today and runs to Sunday, August 20. Lunches and dinners at various participating restaurants are all specially put together and fixed priced. Brunch and lunch are priced at $22 and dinner is priced at $35.
All menus and pricing for restaurants in Penn Quarter can be found here. Enjoy!
Home To The Capitals And Wizards Now Called Capital One Arena (601 F St NW)
The leading indicators were true and the home of the Washington Capitals and Wizards will now be called the Capital One Arena. This WaPo story says it’s a 10 year deal worth $100 million. Please note the change from ‘center’ to ‘arena’ and we certainly can’t call it the Phone Booth any longer.
On Rye Sandwich Shop Debuts All Day Breakfast Menu (740 6th St NW)
We learned that OnRye (740 6th St NW), the sandwich shop that opened in November 2016, now has all day breakfast including a menu of various bagel options, babkas, croissants, and coffee. The full menu can be seen here.
OnRye also has various deli meats and prepared salads now available for purchase. That menu can be seen here.
OnRye opens for breakfast Monday through Saturday at 8 am and remains open until 7 pm. They’re closed on Sundays.
Is The Verizon Center Changing Its Name Soon? (601 F St NW)
A story in the Washington Business Journal describes some domain name sleuthing revealing a host of domain names being scooped up with the words “arena”, “center”, and “dc” in them. The difference between the current arena’s name, the Verizon Center, and the scooped up names is that they are prefixed with one or more variations of Capital One, the retail bank headquartered in McLean, Virginia (Tysons Corner). The naming rights for the Verizon Center end in 2018 so they’re up for renewal soon.
If this renaming does happen, the city’s main arena will go back to being named almost as it was when the arena that housed the Capitals (ice hockey) and Bullets (basketball) stood in Landover, Maryland. The difference is that the old arena was named the Capital Centre, using the British spelling. We never quite knew why that was.
(Ed. Note (8/2/2017): The Washington Post weighed in with a story with some additional information.)
(Hat tip: The Mount Vernon Triangle Facebook page)