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Lime Fresh Mexican Grill (726 7th St NW) is looking good and is set to open in one week on August 21 according to the signage posted outside the newly built out space. The inside appears ready to go and they are hiring. We’re not sure how three fast, casual Mexican restaurants (Lime Fresh, California Tortilla, and Chiptole) will fare all at once in a one block stretch of 7th Street NW but we’re about to find out. Let the taco Olympics begin. ¡Andale!
Penn Quarter Living: Heard In The ‘Hood
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Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
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Penn Quarter – The Penn Quarter Bodega formally ends its efforts to open a grocery store in our neighborhood. [Penn Quarter Bodega – Facebook]
Downtown – Eater DC posts a list of restaurants with free corkage where you can bring your own wine and not get charged on certain days. The story lists Café du Parc, Cedar, Charlie Palmer Steakhouse, and Mandu as neighborhood restaurants with diner friendly corkage policies. The most comprehensive corkage policy list we know of is on the Weygandt Wines website. [Eater DC] & [Weygandt Wines – DC Restaurant Corkage List]
Penn Quarter – A lifestyle piece shows up about Baby Boomers ditching the suburbs and the detached house, and moving into dense urban areas such as downtown DC. [WaPo]
Chinatown – The taxicab licensing bribery case against Tony Cheng, a Chinatown restauranteur, rolls on. Recordings now included. [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – The MPD headquarters building at 300 Indiana Ave NW is proposed to be part of the multi-way land swap proposal to build a soccer stadium at Buzzard’s Point. Oh the complicated deals this city weaves. [Washington City Paper]
Penn Quarter – Ashok Bajaj, restauranteur behind the Knightsbridge Restauraunt Group and proprietor of many Penn Quarter restaurants such as Rasika and Bibiana, gets profiled in the New York Times. A nice photo gallery accompanies the article. [New York Times] & [New York Times – Photo Gallery]
Downtown – J&G Steakhouse in the W Hotel at the corner of 15th and Pennsylvania Ave NW will undergo renovations. This includes the Wine Bar downstairs which is hands down one of our favorite spots to get a drink. Renderings can be found here. [Eater DC]
Opps They Did It Again
About a week ago we noticed that the old Waffle Shop space (522 10th St NW) had once again been emptied. Most recently housing a souvenir shop, the old Waffle Shop space has stymied us for quite some time. First there were the rumors of Tackle Box taking over the space, then it housed a souvenir shop, then the pop-up store “Help Shop” and finally the recently emptied second run as souvenir shop.
We assume this is the final preparation for the new tower being built by Jamal, but who knows? Will another pop-up shop grace this space? We’ve given up guessing (mostly because we’ve been wrong every time), but for some reason this little storefront does fascinate us.
Roasted
Do you love pig? Do you love oysters? If you said “Yes!” then get over to Art and Soul (415 New Jersey Ave., NW) on Wednesdays at 5:30pm to enjoy their Pig & Oyster Roast on the patio.
Eats
Pork rinds, pimento cheese, butter crackers
Roast Heritage Pig
Rappahannock Oysters
Dessert
$35 per person++
Sips
Traditional punch bowls – $40++