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This is pretty great news: Park View DC reports that Marrakech is coming to 3632 Georgia Avenue NW, the space that has formerly been Walter’s, Park View Patio and the Blue Banana. It will also be next door to an Ethiopian restaurant coming to the former Gena’s salon seen above. It’s possible this is the…

This came out of nowhere: The Heights Taproom at 14th and Kenyon is now a Korean spot called Choong Man Chicken Draft House. Choong Man is a local chain of Korean chicken spots with locations on H Street NE, Fairfax, Centreville and Baltimore. (Confusingly there are two websites for Choong Man with different info, but they…

Bar time! Park View DC reports that a new tavern has applied for a liquor license at 3549 14th Street NW. The name seems to be not chosen yet and I can’t find much more about it, but the contact on the permit, Adanech Gebremeskel, is also mentioned in association with a place called Allure…

Here’s a great way to meet your neighbors and help keep our area clean: Georgia Avenue Thrive has scheduled its next cleanup for this coming Saturday. Here’s more. Hi friends, neighbors and community leaders — Georgia Avenue Thrive will hold its next cleanup at 10 a.m., Sat. Sept. 1 at the corner of Warder Street and Park Road.Our wonderful neighbor Jason…

If you like Vietnamese food, you’re in the right place. Our area has at least 6 Vietnamese spots, with old favorites Pho 14 on Park Road and Pho Viet on 14th plus newcomers Bún DC on Sherman, Vietnamese Chelsea on Park, Pho Viet USA on New Hampshire Ave, and now another similarly-named one: Pho Viet at…

Cuban restaurant Little Havana has just opened on the budding strip of 14th Street where the Red Derby, Lyman’s, Mescalero and Taqueria Habanero are — we were able to visit for their opening a bit ago and really enjoyed it. From Alfredo Solis, who also does Mescalero and El Sol, the inside is covered in…

If you’re an ice cream fan, here’s something awesome: two employees of Dischord Records have opened an outpost of Maine’s Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, based in Bar Harbor. The ice cream has had rave reviews over the year, including from President Obama. DCist has the story: the owners Brian Lowit and Melissa Quinley discovered…

Kraken Axes was a big surprise when it opened in the old Murry’s grocery store at Georgia and Morton: it’s a bar with axe throwing, a popular pastime in Canada, but not too well known here. I went a few months ago and had a blast, and heard about lots of other plans for the…

This is neat: there’s an outdoor movie series tonight at the parking lot next to Sankofa Books at Georgia and Fairmont, where District Bridges and Howard University are showing two documentaries about gentrification: Brick by Brick from the 1970s and What Happened 2 Chocolate City, currently finishing production. There’s also a panel discussion before the films.…

A few months ago, we heard about The History of Cannabis Museum coming to Georgia Avenue near DC Reynolds — it was a museum about doobies, plus (my guess) a shop of some kind. (Get it THC Museum?) We didn’t hear much since, but now it’s opened in a new spot at 2822 Georgia Avenue…