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There Are Many Like It But This One Is Mine
We’ve been car-share members for a long time. First with FlexCar, and then later ZipCar when the two companies merged. For years and years we loved trying out fun cars (“let’s get a Mini convertible today!”), or the newest space-age fuel efficient cars (“let’s try one of those hybrids today!”), or a fast, luxurious car [...]
CORRECTED & UPDATED: Local Vine Cellar Coming To PQ
Correction & Update: Apparently we need to visit our Optometrist because the soon to open wine & spirits store is called “The Local Vine Cellar” not wine cellar. Our apologies to the owner! Armed with that info we found their website which lists an opening in February, as well as this Prince of Petworth post [...]
Battle Of The (Weekend) Baguettes
Where once Penn Quarter residents had to scrounge around for bread, our cup now overfloweth with fun baked options. While man cannot live on bread alone, we find that we’re living a lot better thanks to three of our local shops; Cowgirl Creamery, Paul, and Le Pan Quotieden. Each of these shops sells a decent [...]
The Penn Quarter In & Out List For 2012
We’ve fought the urge for years to publish an in & out list, not wanting to offend. But for 2012 we decided our New Year’s Resolution would be to finally publish a list, and hope the outs know we still love them and that there is always next year. So without further adieu, the first [...]
A Very Merry PQ Christmas
Merry Christmas Penn Quarter! Forget the malls and deck your hall with wines, wears, and whatnots from the streets of PQ. You can build your own gift basket just like the Columbos with goods from all over Penn Quarter. Our basket has some of our favorites from the neighborhood including: A little something sexy and [...]
Prices So Low They’re Insane
BooksPlus, the small bookstore located inside the MLK downtown branch, is closing at the end of the year. We’ve purchased a number of books from this little kiosk over the years and we’re a little saddened to see it close. Heck we still sip coffee from a DC Public Library coffee mug we purchased here [...]
Les Frisco’s? Del Halles? We’ve Got Nothing
Our friend Drew forwarded us this article about the long-vacant Les Halles space finally finding a new tenant. Next summer DC will become home to a Del Frisco’s Grille, a sister restaurant to Del Frisco’s Steakhouse. While not the most exciting concept this seems like the type of place that will appeal to tourists and those vising [...]
Santa’s Beard Is Not A Chew Toy
We love dogs. We talk to our dog in public and private, take our dog to any establishment that will allow them (or go out of our way to hit up stores that do allow them), and unashamedly have flowers sent to our significant other from the family dog. Cats, birds, and other animals are [...]
Twice-Baked Amore
The search is over, you can call off the dogs. In our years-long quest to find good biscotti, we finally found a cooked good just like Grandma used to make. Grandma Columbo came from the old world, her biscotti weren’t the soft, foot long, chocolate dipped (yet somehow tasteless) cookies you find in most stores. [...]
The Spy Who Cooked My Turkey
Thanksgiving might just be our favorite holiday. The cooking, food, the wine, the football, the Columbo family famous egg dressing. But prior to moving to PQ Mrs Columbo and I were known to occassionally skip cooking and go out for the meal. Going out for the meal is great fun, but you lose out on [...]
