RSS FeedTwo New Restaurants/Bars And A Deli Coming To Gallery Place!
Maisha has been our unofficial lookout on the corner of 8th and F G Streets. First, she emailed us about a deli that is currently building out the interior at 703 (?) 8th St NW. It will be called 1791 DC – A Gourmet Delicatessen.
Next, Maisha told us about a liquor license posting on another window of the same building (called the Portrait building). This restaurant (701 8th St NW) will be called Vignette and it appears to be a piano bar, with American cuisine, and includes a sidewalk cafe (56 seats) directly across the street from the Smithsonian museum – great location!
As GPLiving was walking around the Gallery Place complex this weekend, we noticed yet another liquor license application. This one is on the East-side door of the G Street alley that leads to/from 6th street (not as frequently traveled as the 7th street side). It looks like a bar, called Bar Louie (701 7th St NW), that will be opening somewhere in the Gallery Place complex. We think it will be on the first floor closest to the door where the liquor license is posted. We guess that Bar Louie is part of this chain. We’re curious about the proposed Summer Garden, which is supposed to feature 80 seats, because there isn’t any space for an outdoor garden in the near vicinity!
To top things off, we snapped a pic of the other side of the Smithsonian American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery currently taking shape! The building is now illuminated during the nighttime.
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Thanks for these great updates! I agree that Bar Louie is probably going to go in that space below Lucky Strike. Where else is there room in the GP complex? Maybe the summer garden will be the large kiosk in G St Alley across from Thai Chili and Haagen Dazs? A girl can dream…
i wonder if Bar Louie will be in the space under Strike. It seems big enough and the “summer garden” may just be seating outside the bar in the atrium. Just a thought.
Thanks for the updates. But as for Bar Louie . . . eh. I’m not really excited for yet another sandwich/drink shop. Clyde’s is about as franchised as I get in this hood. Generic restaurants bring generic crowds, I’m more excited about boutique cheese shops and the like.
Maybe the summer garden is a rooftop thing?
Anyone notice that construction has stopped with the BodySmith Gym? A few weeks ago, there was a desk and employees in the window, and construction workers going in and out from the other door. Now it has been empty for a few weeks. Any thoughts?
brian: Yes, there was a rumor a few days ago that Body Smith is giving up the ghost, apparently due to VIDA fitness’ planned facility less than a block away.
There is no official source for the news, but Body Smith looks like it’s gone.
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great work, GPLiving. more signs of economic vitality in the ‘hood !