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Single Serve Moratorium Becomesing Reality
We don’t want to run down a laundry list of all of the provisions but we did want to alert readers to the not-so-new-but-important news that selling “single containers” of “beer, malt liquor and ale” is now will be prohibited in Ward 2 and 6 in the ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions) within the Penn Quarter. […]
Restaurant Week Starts In Seven Days
Fire up your taste buds as DC’s Restaurant Week starts one week from today running from August 11 to August 17. The lunch price is $20.08 but the dinner price has been bumped up $5 to $35.08. Perhaps this was in response to restaurants feeling that they couldn’t provide an adequate dinner for $30.08. There […]
CityVista Safeway Unfurls Opening Date
The Safeway at CityVista made a date with the public last week and that date as unequivocally shown on the banner unfurled down the west side of their building facing 5th Street, NW, is September 12. Although 5th and K is thrown around as the center of gravity for the development, the entrance to this […]
Where’s The ‘Hoff When You Need Him?
Photo: Shirtless traditional (near side) and shirted bucket drummer (circled – far side) It might as well have been a weeknight on NBC (America’s Got Talent) when we caught these dueling downtown drummers within earshot of each other one weekend. Shirtless drummer…solid rock four-four punctuated by an occasional jazz rhythm – check. Bucket drummer…go-go beat […]