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New Sign: Cuba Libre DC Neon Edition
The Cuba Libre restaurant sign is up, the interior is finished, and we understand the establishment opens to the public tomorrow, Friday, October 1. We thought we’d give you an evening sign preview and since there are no residential buildings nearby, the neon glow won’t disturb anyone’s sleep. It does have a nice color scheme [...]
Two New Restaurants Coming Soon: District of Pi and Graffiato!
In the last two days, we were tipped off to two new Penn Quarter restaurant openings. The first restaurant is District of Pi (as reported by stlmag), which will occupy one of the last remaining retail spaces on F St at approximately 914 F St NW, next to the Ventana condominium. The second restaurant announcement [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments! Penn Quarter – We’ve tried Carmine’s at 425 7th St NW and the portions are humongo. Here’s a review you may want to check [...]
Neighborhood Pic: Another Day At Work In The PQ
We caught these window washers early one morning getting the job done on a Penn Quarter office building. Note the cell phone repeaters on the top of the building, not an uncommon sight these days.
Amorini Panini Opens Next Monday! (9/27)
Amorini Panini’s facebook page has a daily countdown until their opening day, and that day will be next Monday (9/27)! The page also mentions that there may be some soft opening dates, but there are only 5 days left until the opening and no soft opening has been announced. We’ll send out a tweet if [...]
Central Souvenirs
Reader C. sent in a tip that the old Central Liquors space (917 F ST NW) will become another souvenir shop. We stopped by and sure enough the windows are papered with Joe’s Souvenir Outlet. And of course there is a permit in the window which notes the use of space will be for a [...]
A Touch Of Fun On Pennsylvania Avenue
We never know what gems Penn Quarter Living readers will unearth every week in our downtown neighborhood. Joy, one of our regular readers, sent in photos of a diorama set up in an office window fronting Pennsylvania Ave NW wanting to know more; we knew this would be a Monday story. To the left of [...]
Is Gallery Place’s Mosquito Anti-Loitering Device Working?
On approximately August 30, 2010, the owners of the Gallery Place complex installed a Mosquito anti-loitering device under the canopy of the 7th & H St NW Metro station entrance. The device emits a high pitched pulsed tone that is supposed to only be heard by young ears. Those are the same young ears that [...]
Tied To A Hitching Post
This probably isn’t what the property owners on 8th street had in mind when they recently installed new tree box fences from CVS down to the Lansburgh entrance. As dog owners we know this is a not-too-subtle way of saying “keep your dog out of the box.” Nonetheless, we applaud this particular move as it solves what [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments! Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro – The free hugs folks were out (see photo above) along with a new concept called Karma Kafe that is a [...]
