Good news for Italian food lovers, fans of El Chucho and folks in northern Columbia Heights: Little Coco’s, the long-awaited Italian version of the popular El Chucho, is opening tomorrow, Sept. 8. The other day some folks posted about a soft opening, and now it’s official. They’re located at 3907 14th Street NW, just north…

This sounds fun: Willow and Fia’s Fabulous Finds on Upshur Street have organized the first Petworth Fashion Fest this Saturday from 11am-4pm on the 800 block of Upshur. The fest has new and vintage clothing, accessories and a lot more. Willow is a cool boutique, gift and home shop I’ve written about before and Fia’s…

This sounds pretty cool: HalfSmoke, a fast casual sausage restaurant, is opening soon at the northeast corner of Florida and Georgia. That space has been a lot of things but never for very long: I can remember it being a pharmacy, Popeye’s, art shop, someone’s campaign headquarters — but mostly vacant. The Washington Post has…

The Atlantic Plumbing building on the 800 block of V Street is getting even more new things to go with the Atlantic Plumbing Cinema and various art venues: a Japanese restaurant and a burger shop. On Monday, Haikan, a Japanese ramen and poutine restaurant from the folks behind Daikaya/Izakaya, opened at 815 V Street NW.…

This is pretty cool: Mulebone, the newish restaurant that replaced Eatonville at 14th and V, is now operating as a coworking space during the day called Share Space DC. The spot, owned by the Busboys and Poets folks, shifted its concept a bit and changed names about a year ago and now includes a vintage store.…

If you like the Redskins, or are an ironic person, get yourself to Marshall’s in DCUSA: there’s a whole rack of Robert Griffin III jerseys for $8 (or $10 for XL and above) — presumably ones that didn’t sell after RGIII went to the Browns. They’re actual, name brand jerseys too, not t-shirts, and when…

The other day I was walking down Park Road NW near Georgia Ave. and spotted some apparently brand new bike route signs — city specified routes to different places in the city. These ones appear to be new, they aren’t on the city’s maps (we are tile 17) or in its downloadable bike data. I’ve…