RSS FeedDC 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.
Downtown – The new Italian restaurant Bibiana gets a first look. [Washingtonian]
Mount Vernon Triangle – VIMBY (video in my back yard) profiles Durkl, the streetwear company headquartered in our area. [Ready Set DC]
U Street – Ben Ali, the founder of the legendary Ben’s Chili Bowl, passes away. [U Street Girl]
Shaw – Tulip planting planned at the end of October to improve Shaw’s visuals. [RenewShaw]
Columbia Heights – Need a little help in aisle 10 for Ellwood Thompson’s, the grocery story that really, truly wants to go in to DC USA at Columbia Heights. [New Columbia Heights]
Chevy Chase Adjacent – The DC Record Show goes uptown to the spacious Comet Ping Pong pizza palace on upper Connecticut Avenue. Photos here if you missed the vinylicious event. [ReadySetDC]
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Sunday Reading: Sietsema Reviews W’s J&G Steakhouse
PQ Living had a peek at the J&G Steakhouse in the W Hotel (515 15th St NW) shortly after the mucho bucks renovation was complete in July of this year. We liked the balanced visuals we saw in the steakhouse (the faux Miami meets DC lobby reno, not so much) but have not made it over there for a full on meal just yet. We can absolutely endorse the hotel’s very cozy and dateworthy Wine Bar with the somewhat speakeasy like entrance on Pennsylvania Avenue as we supped there one weeknight and behold it was very good. With that in mind, it was nice to see that Tom Sietsema of the Washington Post reviewed chef Jean-George Vongerichten’s entry onto DC’s steakhouse battlefield in the WP Magazine last Sunday so we can read a seasoned opinion. That’s our Sunday Reading.
Not just another steakhouse [WP Magazine]
J&G Steakhouse
515 15th St NW
202-661-2440
www.jgsteakhousewashingtondc.com
(Corkage policy: $25 per bottle)
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PQ Farmer’s Market Existence Threatened By Lone Commuter
Picture taken just before the Farmer’s Market started setting up yesterday. All is quiet on 8th St NW between D & E, as usual. Even the car seen in the driving lane is double-parked.
The DC DNA has a nice write-up of a local office tenant’s request to rescind the Penn Quarter Farmer’s Market public space permit. As you know, every Thursday, the Farmer’s Market closes 8th St NW between D & E St NW so that vendors can line the street and sell their fresh produce and organic products. This is the perfect location for the Farmer’s Market because 8th St is by no means a continuous street. In fact, one cannot travel more than 2 blocks at a time on 8th Street anywhere south of M Street – yes M Street (that’s north of the convention center). Additionally, 8th Street between D and E is one of the least trafficked streets this blogger can think of in our neighborhood.
However, it does appear that a lone commuter’s lack of traffic-routing imagination is threatening the very existence of the Farmer’s Market. The commuter’s claim is that by closing the one block stretch of 8th St, commutes could be extended by up to a whopping 15 minutes. We can definitely think of some just-as-speedy alternative routes around the one block closure on Thursday afternoons, so we’re hard pressed to argue for the other side of this story.
Even though the request of one individual is extremely unlikely to be honored over the wishes of thousands of Penn Quarter residents, it would not hurt to contact your councilmember to ensure that your voice is heard on this matter.