RSS FeedPop Up?
One of the current food trends is the pop-up restaurant, a limited time only taste of an established or up and coming chef.
Here are just a few on my foodie radar:
- Through September: Garden Café Catalonia by Jose Andres at the National Gallery of Art (4th and Constitution Avenue NW)
- June 12-14: Pop Up Paladar at Cuba Libre (801 9th Street NW) with Chef Alain (Doctor Café in Havana, Cuba)
- June 9: Living Social has been hosting lots of pop up restaurants and foodie feasts at their 918 F Street NW location, including this one.
Penn Quarter/DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving.
Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
Tips? Send them in confidentiality to: pqliving [at] gmail.com
Penn Quarter – A new cocktail lounge has applied for a liquor license next to Fuel Pizza at the corner of 6th and F St NW. [Prince of Petworth]
Chinatown – A substitute trustee’s sale was advertised for the Gospel Rescue Mission in the 800 block of 5th St NW. [O’Connell-Capital Business Twitter] & [Alex Cooper Auctioneers website]
Penn Quarter – The Downtown Neighborhood Association hosts its monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 12 in the Calvary Baptist Church. Start time is 6:30 pm and the entrance is on 8th St between G and H St NW. [DC DNA Calendar]
Thomas Circle – 19th century architect Adolf Cluss designed many prominent buildings still standing in DC and in the Penn Quarter. He also designed the first apartment building in DC called the Portland Flats on the south side of Thomas Circle. These links bring us the photos and the history. [DC Metrocentric] & [Adolf Cluss website] & [Adolf Cluss Wikipedia entry]
National Mall – It’s summer and that means Jazz in the Garden is now up and running for the season every Friday from 5 pm to 8:30 pm. [National Gallery of Art]
Capitol Hemp (519 H St NW) Shutting Down August 1
We reported back in the spring of 2010 about Capitol Hemp’s opening a store at 519 H St NW in the basement retail area of one of the rowhouses on H St NW. This was their second location in DC and both the Chinatown and Adams Morgan locations will close August 1. A fall 2011 raid of the store was the beginning of a process that lead to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement whereby the store announced that both the Chinatown and Adams Morgan stores will be closing. Recent tweets this week continue to mete out that the brand and assets are available for sale.
Go for a Spin
A bunch of my friends have been obsessive devotees of spinning classes like those in the offing from The Art of Spyn, driving out to Virginia or Metro-ing over to the Hill for their cycling classes. A few days ago, I learned that The Art of Spyn (TAS) will be opening a new studio right here in Penn Quarter (currently planned for August) at 950 F Street, NW. Be sure to check out their opening specials, $40 for one month of unlimited yoga classes or $60 for one month of unlimited cycling and yoga classes.
Happy spinning and down dogging!