Cowgirl Creamery Sells Wine, I Street Goes Both Ways, ANC6C Meets Tonight

Wouldn’t this be a great addition to our neighborhood? Perhaps we should start a campaign to bring this business to the Penn Quarter!

From Tom Sietsema’s chat today on the WaPost:

Tom Sietsema: POPPING-FRESH GOSSIP: Veteran pastry chef Peter Brett has said farewell to the recently opened Blue Duck Tavern in the Park-Hyatt Hotel, with the intention of launching his own dessert shop.
“It was a very difficult decision to make,” says Brett, who left last Friday. “I had been at the Park-Hyatt for almost 17 years,” beginning with the late Melrose restaurant.
Brett says he is looking for a site in “an urban area with foot traffic,” preferably near a Metro stop and hopefully in the District. Right now, he’s taking orders for specialty cakes; part of his business plan involves selling desserts to restaurants (places that might not have pastry chefs of their own).
To reach Brett, call 202-302-3883 or email him at peterbrett@earthlink.net. He also has a web site: http://www.peterbakes.com.

Thanks Anon: We just emailed Mr. Brett!

Great idea!!! I think a pastry shop would be a great addition to the neighborhood.

First cheese now desserts, thank god for the 2 gyms in the area!

6C meeting recap available at: http://lifein.mountvernonsquare.org/

I wish PQ would get together and do something like this..

http://lifein.mountvernonsquare.org/index.cfm/2006/9/13/MVSNA-Meeting-info

MarketSQ/Lafayette/CB/Cosmo/Mathers.others. It would be cool.

MAKING THE MOVES : The longtime rumors just became reality. The splashy but financially unsuccessful Oyamel (2250 Crystal Dr., Arlington), brought to life two years ago by chef Jose Andres , will serve its last corn tamale Saturday night, and chef Roberto Donna — forced to find somewhere else to cook while the office building that housed his Galileo (1110 21st St. NW) gets renovated — is poised to take over the space.

Donna, who closed the famous 22-year-old Italian restaurant after dinner service Wednesday, intends to turn the former Oyamel space into a trattoria called Bebo , his nickname.

The story gets richer: Andres is relocating Oyamel to Washington’s Penn Quarter, home to the majority of his other restaurants ( Cafe Atlantico , Jaleo , Minibar , Zaytinya ). The exact spot: 401 Seventh St. NW — until recently, the site of another Mexican purveyor, Andale .

The main players are putting a happy spin on the complicated game of musical (restaurant) chairs. “This isn’t a closing, but a rebirth,” says Andres, who hopes to reopen early next year after a face-lift by ace restaurant designers Adamstein & Demetriou . “Oyamel is a concept worth saving.” The menu will be similar, but with more of an emphasis on tacos and other Mexican street food, he added.

“I’m excited,” echos Donna. “Trattorias are fun!”
At Bebo Trattoria , which is expected to welcome diners by the end of the month, the selections will run from spaghetti alla carbonara to fried rabbit with artichokes. With only one restaurant to focus on, Donna promises “I’ll be there lunch and dinner, until we reopen downtown,” probably in September 2007.

–Tom Sietsema