Author Andrew W

As part of my continuing Weekday Lunch series, where I check out local restaurants and food options for lunch during the week, I headed to Lyman’s Tavern at 3720 14th Street NW, just south of Quincy. They used to open at 2 for lunch but have since changed that to opening the bar at 11…

If you like cider, or want to learn more about it, Colony Club is hosting monthly tastings, and the next one is Nov. 12. Colony Club is the coffee shop and bar at 3118 Georgia Avenue, and is a really cool spot (in fact, I am blogging from there right now.) The event is in…

Here’s the latest installment of Weekday Lunch, my series about good places to eat lunch in the neighborhood during the week, maybe if you work from home or are just around. This time I stopped by Taqueria Habanero, the great spot at 3710 14th Street NW, down the street from the Red Derby.They make traditional…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a partnership that this blog and others have formed with DC SCORES, a great local nonprofit that provides after school programs for kids with poetry and soccer. Their season (both poetry and soccer) is underway, and their culminating event, the Poetry Slam, is in less than a month,…

Whoa! My buddy was walking around the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza, the triangular plaza where 14th, Park and Kenyon intersect, and saw a few people wearing &pizza shirts looking at documents and such. He started chatting with them and they said they were looking at the space and working on getting permits for the former…

The other day I was up at Qualia Coffee on Georgia and wandering around, and I stumbled on this, a pretty cool abandoned building covered in graffiti at 4111 Kansas Avenue NW. Normally I’m pretty anti-abandoned buildings, as they mean no one is living there, no businesses are there, and nobody is paying taxes, but…

The 32thirtytwo building at 3232 Georgia Ave NW is getting a lot of ground floor retail. Neighborhood Development Company announced that Salsa with Silvia, a local Latin dance studio will be opening, as well as Bikram Yoga Petworth, Metro PCS, Medical Center Orthotics & Prosthetics, and Re/Max. (I should note that despite being called Bikram Yoga Petworth,…

A few weeks ago I wrote about Homestead, the new bar and restaurant coming next to Qualia Coffee from some folks who are affiliated with the Blaguard, the Adams Morgan bar. I had a chance to ask them some questions and learn more. Owner Nic Makris gave me the rundown and said they don’t have…

I’ve written a few times about the various alcohol delivery services in our area — Klink, Drizly and Ultra. Klink has offered some cool deals in the past, like free boozy cupcakes, and just in time for Halloween, here’s another — s’mores burritos. Yeah, you heard that right — it’s from Rito Loco, which makes…