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Penn Quarter – The Shake Shack at 8th and F St NW opens tomorrow. Hours will be 11 am to 10 pm each day except Friday and Saturday when the closing time is midnight. [Shake Shack website]
Downtown – The M & S Grill (13th and F St NW) closed its doors. [Washington Business Journal]
Penn Quarter – Tom Sietsema reviews Frederik de Pue’s Azur (508 8th St NW) restaurant. We’ve been once but we will need to return before we can come up with our own verdict. [WaPo]
Downtown – Todd English opens MXDC, a modern Mexican restaurant, in the former Galileo III & Butterfield 9 space at 600 14th St NW. We love this space so we’re excited to check it out soon. [WaPo] & [Prince of Petworth] & [REVAMP (extensive photos)]
Chinatown – Del Campo (777 I St NW) in the old PS7 space opened and gets reviewed by Sietsema too. In separate news, the Del Campo patio is open for the season. [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – Oyamel (6th and D St NW) expands into the former TicketPlace space next door. We popped our heads in and the opening up of the restaurant is quite transformational. We also expect to have a better chance at finding a bar seat for taco happy hour. [PQ Living] & [Washington Business Journal] & [REVAMP (extensive photos)]
Downtown – Casa Luca (1099 New York Ave NW) continues under construction for an early summer opening in the former Againn space. [Bad Wolf Blog (Shaw neighborhood)] & [Casa Luca website]
Penn Quarter – Cedar (822 E St NW) restaurant’s chef, Aaron McCloud, is growing some of the ingredients he uses to serve at Cedar on the top of the building. Urban farming…very cool! [WTOP]
Downtown – Astro Donuts & Fried Chicken is now open Saturdays offering hours from 9 am to 3 pm. [Astro Donuts & Fried Chicken website]
Penn Quarter – The National Building Museum teamed up with Hill Country to host the Backyard Barbecue Wednesdays to Sundays on the NBM’s lawn with live music on Fridays and Saturdays. Don’t tell any of those folks at Jazz in the Garden…we’ll keep it our neighborhood secret. [Hill Country DC – Backyard Barbecue menu and hours (PDF)] & [National Building Museum Backyard Barbecue homepage]
Thursday Traditions
Most Thursdays, if the weather cooperates, we follow the same routine: Walk home from the office, grab the dog, head to the farmer’s market, order pizzas, get a treat for the pup, drinks from CVS, pick up pizzas, and then pick a spot in the neighborhood for a picnic.
Penn Quarter has great options for pizza and we’ve raved about the Matchbox (713 H ST NW) Spicy Meatball, and Graffiato’s (707 6th ST NW) Porky’s Revenge. But on Thursdays the only pizza on our mind is that from The Red Zebra at the 8th Street Farmer’s Market. We almost always get a standard pizza (sauce/cheese/meat) and a specialty pizza (pesto/farm veggies/fun cheese/etc) and we’ve never been disappointed. We like some of their combos better than others, but overall these small pizzas (which range in price between about $8-$11 each) are outstanding, and the crust is superb. Add in a couple of bottles of sparkling water from CVS (435 8th ST NW) and you have a fun meal, with great people watching at the Navy Memorial (701 Pennsylvania Ave NW).
The ladies at The Red Zebra are fantastic, cooking up amazing pizzas while being both friendly and efficient. The only time we’ve ever seen anyone upset with them in when they’ve run out of pizza. We’ve faced that disappointment ourselves, when work has kept us at our desks later than usual.
We’d also be remiss if we didn’t point out our dog’s favorite vendor at the farmers market, Gunpowder Bison & Trading. You’ve never seen a hound so happy as ours when we approach the Gunpowder stand. The guy who mans this booth is as friendly as the ladies at The Red Zebra, and the $10 for a bag of dog treats is money well spent for the (short lived) love from your pup.
This is just our preference (pizza & dog treats), but there are lots of other vendors at the market, of course, and you could combine any number of them to create your own Thursday night tradition.
Oyamel’s Metamorphosis
Oyamel (401 7th St., NW) opened their new bar area this week. Stop in to check out the amazing design details and much-needed lounge space while enjoying daily tastings, dinner and menu specials during their annual Tequila and Mezcal Festival, June 17-30.
Penn Quarter Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. It’s a short update because we’re going to have a separate foodie focused roundup at some later point. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
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Mount Vernon Triangle – More bicyclists getting together with motorized vehicles, this time at 4th and Massachusetts Ave NW. [Prince of Petworth]
Chinatown – And in other vehicular news of the weird, dude rides motor scooter in Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro stop. He even honked his horn. [DCist] & [WJLA]
Mount Vernon Triangle – The Executive Director for the MVT BID, Bill McLeod, is departing his post for a newly formed Dupont BID-like organization. [The [Mount Vernon] Triangle]
Chinatown – We have a Drink of the Week for you and it involves Sour Patch Kids. Yep, that’s the candy we’re talking about and it’s part of a cocktail at Cuba Libre (801 9th St NW). [Washington City Paper]
Penn Quarter Crib of the Week – It only gets better with Penn Quarter real estate and our Crib of the Week. Rarely available, a 2 bedroom/2.5 bathroom, 1600 square foot unit is available at the Residences at Terrell Place. Unit 300 at 675 E St NW is up for sale at $899K, sporting a monthly condo fee of $1563/month, and is tagged with the MLS identifier DC8110383. [Redfin listing – 675 E St NW – Unit 300 – MLS DC8110383]