I’ve been excited for this: there’s a new store coming to the old Arthur’s shop at 11th and Lamont. Former Room 11 staffers Jess Woods and Rachel Mowrer are opening Odd Provisions this Friday, a corner store with convenience-type goods as well as food and produce from local farms, craft beer and prepared foods like…

This is interesting news from Upshur Street: cocktail bar and restaurant Twisted Horn is changing its name to Hank’s Cocktail Bar, to reflect that it’s part of the Hank’s Oyster Bar family, and also lowering prices. According to Petworth News, they wanted to be more of a neighborhood restaurant. They recently lowered prices and added…

We now know what’s coming to the old Ruby Tuesday space at 14th and Monroe, and my guess of Red Lobster was wrong (sorry, lobster and cheesy biscuit fans.) The tenant is something called Jenkins Capital BBQ according to a now hiring sign posted in the window that a reader sent me. (It actually spells…

Looks like we are finally getting something into the empty space where Ruby Tuesday was. A reader tweeted me that some work was happening inside, and a few days later another reader emailed that they had called the developer, Rappaport, who said it was a restaurant, but declined to say which one. Apparently they are…

Beer time! A few weeks ago we heard about a new beer brewed by New Belgium (the folks who make Fat Tire) and the staff from Acre 121. The beer is called WetHopnation Without Representation, referencing DC’s lack of voting rights in Congress, and considering it’s made by New Belgium it’s probably pretty tasty. Sadly the event…

I don’t like doing laundry — lugging it around, waiting around having to fold it and all that stuff. Sure, there are worse things in the world, but there are also a lot of other things I’d rather do. A new laundry service named Cleanly reached out to me the other day and offered a…

Whoa! This sounds awesome. Last year local nonprofit Hola Cultura organized Tamal Fest DC to bring people together to sample the many varieties of the Latin American dish, the tamal (also called tamale) with meat or other fillings inside corn dough. There’s a wide variety too, from the moister Central American varieties to the flakier…

Here’s some good news: District Dogs will be opening Nov. 18 at 3210 Georgia Avenue NW, the old Petworth Liquors. The liquor store was a bugbear for neighbors for years with public drunkeness, public urination, customers harassing passersby and more. It finally closed when the owners, the Zuckermans, refused to renew their lease. The new…