On Monday, June 22, DC officially entered Phase Two of reopening. Under the new Phase Two regulations, restaurants can allow a limited amount of indoor dining, non-essential retail stores can resume a reduced level of in-store service, and fitness facilities may reopen with limited access.
While some businesses were able to immediately embrace the new guidelines, many have been taking time to work out how to safely allow customers inside. In recent days, we have seen more and more businesses in the Columbia Heights area announce that they are open for business!
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Columbia Heights Businesses Open Under Phase 2
Columbia Heights Main Street has a great round-up of the shops and restaurants that are open on the Main Street under the new Phase Two guidelines. You can slurp up some delicious pho at Pho 14, freshen up your look at Oasis Hair Salon, grab a beer at Lou’s City Bar, and more.
For those wondering, Columbia Heights Main Street covers Irving from Mount Pleasant to 11th Street, 11th Street from Harvard to Monroe, 14th Street from Harvard to Spring Road, and Park Street from 11th to Mount Pleasant (boundary map here).
Coffy Cafe (3310 14th St NW)
On July 1, Coffy Cafe announced that they have reopened both inside and outside. Capacity is limited.
Grab yourself a delicious crepe (check out their Bootsy savory crepe—it’s delicious!), breakfast sandwich, coffee, or more.
Rooster & Owl (2436 14th St NW)
Located between Columbia Heights and U Street, Rooster & Owl has reopened to serve up their menu of shared plates with a seasonal focus and local ingredients.
Their opening menu is now $75 per person with four courses of choices. Their latest menu options sound incredible:
PAELLA lobster mussels, garlic scape
BABY BACK RIBS spice rub, fish sauce, barbeque
GARLIC MUSHROOM blue oyster & king trumpet, kombu
CHOCOLATE TART cherry compote, white peach sorbet, almond streusel, lemon Chantilly
Reservations for in-person dining are accepted on their website (patio seating is available first-come, first-served). You can also order the feast for takeaway (more details here).
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Went to Columbia Heights Plaza last night. It smelled awful, very dirty and people passed out. People aren’t going to want to go to those businesses if this can’t be controlled.
Concur, the neighborhood leadership has allowed the Plaza to become a defacto day camp for substance abusers who are filthy, leave their trash everywhere, drink, and pass out with their clothes half off. It is absolutely shameful what has become of that plaza and the area surrounding it in the last couple of years. An unwelcoming, filthy mess no one wants anything to do with.
I just read in the About section that this blog’s owner is on a committee to address vacant commercial property in the neighborhood. I haven’t seen District Bridges do much of anything that produces results, but one idea is perhaps cleaning up the Plaza so it is a desirable place to go and businesses actually want to invest there?