Bluepoint Restaurant (1299 Penn Ave NW) Now Open

If it’s one thing there’s a shortage of downtown, it’s steakhouses that serve $11 cheeseburgers. But at least they have stone crabs; don’t know of anyone who sells those in DC. I might give those a try.

Hope they have better luck than the last couple restaurants/bars that occupied that space. They all seem to follow the same pattern of increasing prices and declining quality/service until they fold, only to be replaced by yet another expensive restaurant/bar. Bon chance!

Can’t say I’ll be running to try this place with its generic menu and overpriced selections…appears to be a tourist spot. I’ll add this to Bar Louie and Green Turtle as another place to expect bland, mass-produced food.

What was there before John Harvard’s?

I don’t recall anything before J. Harvard’s… and I heard they closed because they were too late to renew their lease, not sure if it’s true, but it was always busy when I was there and the beer was probably the best microbrewed in the city.

Hey careful before you dis Greene Turtle. I went in not familiar with it and not expecting great food, but I was really impressed. The fries and the cheesesteak were so much better than they needed to be. And the price wasn’t bad at all.

Wasn’t that where Dean and DeLucca used to be?

6 – there’s a Potbelly where the D&D used to be, the Bluepoint is downstairs, underneath the Warner Theater itself.

The John Harvard’s was there for at least 5-6 years. It did great lunch business, but the one time I went in the evening it was nearly empty.

Before John Harvard’s, it was another brew-pub based out of Philly. It didn’t last long and the name escapes me.

I 2nd the kudos to the green turtle. i too have had their philly chicken cheesesteak 2x and have not been dissapointed! my friends enjoyed their meals as well (sliders, wings, burgers). great, inexpensive food and wonderful service.

I 3rd the Greene Turtle love. That place is pretty decent, but please don’t tell the tourists. I like being able to sit at a bar and actually talk.

On another restaurant note, I noticed The Source’s signage is up, next to the beautiful entrance lobby for the Newseum apts. Looks like Wolfgang’s probably only a couple months away!

The Greene Turtle has great boneless wings with many different flavors. My only concern is that every weeknight or weekend I go in there, the place is usually dead. I can’t attest to the weekday lunch crowd as I work in another area of the city. I know that Verizon Center sporting events will be a huge boost to their business, I just hope they can survive.

Oh yeah, don’t tell the tourists about the Greene Turtle. They sure aren’t telling them or any one else for that matter. That’s a good way for a restaurant to stay in business.

I had forgotten that the Green Turtle was even there it’s so mediocre. Good luck to them, but I’ll just act like a tourist and continue to not know about them.

Can anyone confirm that Blue Point has a wall decorated with bikini-clad women? If so, that seems unusually tacky for such an expensive location.