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Ristorante Luigino Closing On Monday
Another long-time downtown restaurant is closing. Ristorante Luigino (1100 NY Ave, at the corner of 12th & H) is closing for business on Monday, January 5th. They had a big closing bash back in December after going through bankruptcy earlier this year. Luigino wasn’t our favorite Italian restaurant, but they seemed to do well with business lunches and […]
Remembering A Gentle Giant
** UPDATED INFORMATION: See This Post For Important Corrections & Updates ** As the year winds down, we wanted to take a moment to remember a friend of ours who passed away late in 2008. We discovered Christmas morning in the latest edition of Street Sense that our friend and former Street Sense vendor, Orin Andrus, […]
Work To Begin Soon On Former Waffle Shop?
Last week we noticed that someone had begun to remove debris from the interior of the former Waffle Shop (522 10th ST NW). A few days later the windows were covered with Davis Construction paper and the door was boarded up with plywood. Davis Construction paper also covers the windows of the new entrance to Ford’s Theatre […]
Christmas Time Is Here
The forecast doesn’t call for snow, so it looks like we won’t get a white Christmas this year. But that’s ok; there is plenty of holiday cheer in and around downtown DC to make up for it. Today is Yesterday was the last day of the Downtown Holiday Market, which really livens up F Street […]