RSS FeedAuntie Anne’s Pretzels Coming To Gallery Place’s “Kiosk Row”
Thanks to Cheryl for sending in the tip that Auntie Anne’s Pretzels is coming to the G Street walkway of Gallery Place! This kiosk, which joins the larger Smoothie King kiosk, was formerly occupied by a fair weather florist.
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here.
Mount Vernon Triangle – The full monty. Some aspects of living downtown just can’t be explained to the out of town relatives. [Life In Mount Vernon Square]
U Street – The View 14, a residential building that started as a condo but converted to apartments, begins leasing. [DC Metrocentric]
Columbia Heights – Want a true Mexican taqueria experience? Taqueria Distrito Federal, 3463 14th St NW, gets a review. [Capital Spice]
Penn Quarter – A Greek revival house stood at the corner of 9th and D Streets NW before the Civil War. See it here. [Greater Greater Washington]
Auto Dealer Coming Downtown?
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and in this carbon sensitive era, the rise of the electric car seems destined to happen. Tesla Motors, the all electric car maker headquartered in San Carlos, California, was reported by the Washington Business Journal to be scoping out F Street NW for its Washington, DC showroom. Given the economic strength of the DC area, it does not surprise us to see Tesla checking out the DMV area for a dealership location and their website says a store is coming to DC in Fall 2009. With a torque curve that blows away gasoline engines and a 3.9 second zero to 60 mph time, we’ll gladly take a Tesla Roadster out any day for a test drive…living in the PQ means the on-ramp to I-395 is not very far away at all.
Hat Tip: FourthandEye
Restaurant Updates: D’Acqua and Ping Pong Dim Sum
Per the Top Shelf blog on the Washington Business Journal’s website, two restaurant updates are in order.
D’Acqua, the Italian seafood restaurant in Market Square on Pennsylvania Ave NW, is really closed and it’s due to a prospective bump up in rent. What type of restaurant do you think would be a good fill in for the space? [WaBizJo – D’Acqua Restaurant Has Closed]
Ping Pong Dim Sum, the first stateside installation of this Chinese dim sum chain from the UK, under construction on 7th Street NW just below Massachusetts Ave NW has a targeted December opening date. The website confirms this notion. We like their motto…”Little steamed parcels of deliciousness.” [WaBizJo – Ping Pong To Open In December]