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We have a few restaurant updates as follows:
- Asia 9, mentioned by PQ Living in late November, is supposed to open in the January/February timeframe on the ground floor of The Artisan condo at 915 E Street, NW. (Thai, Vietnamese & Japanese)
- Sei, mentioned by PQ Living in mid November, looks to open in the February/March timeframe at 444 7th Street, NW. (Japanese & sushi)
- Ray, mentioned by PQ Living in mid November, looks to open in the late spring of 2008 at 901 I Street, NW. (seafood & sushi)
Apparently, everyone in the Penn Quarter eats sushi…this writer included. Maybe Asia 9 will be the first in the PQ to offer karaoke?
Coming Soon: What’s Opening in 2008 [Zagat]
Erin’s Meal Plan for 2008 [WaPo]
A hat tip goes out to PQ Living reader Nicola for pointing us to the Zagat article.
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It’s all part of a very healthy trend to turn Chinatown into both a more generic Asiatown and also a more generic Entertainment District. There simply aren’t enough Chinese people to sustain the neighborhood, and more importantly, the Chinese-owned or -themed businesses are almost all terrible. Even before these places open, DC is already perhaps the only Chinatown in the world where the best and most popular restaurants in the neighborhood are the non-Chinese ones.
#2 – I’m sorry, but no matter how many Clyde’s, Zengo’s, Zaytinya’s, Matchbox’s and other similar establishments open, I won’t agree that those place are going to serve dishes better than the intestines and duck blood soup I can eat at some of the Chinese-owned ones.
Does anyone know what type of place the Lee Loo Lounge on 6th and G is going to be? Restaurant or just bar? The location is directly behind the Verizon Center where the Arena Rotisserie Chicken place used to be.
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I live in the Artisan and I would like to place a hefty wager Asia 9 doesn’t open in January OR February. They don’t even have drywall hung – there seems to be little progress made and minimal activity. The sign says Winter 2008 – I jokingly told my husband that means November/December 2008 and it’s still truth in advertising.