Archive for the ‘Adams Morgan’ Category
We Love Food: Speak Easy at L’Enfant Cafe
Le Soir courtesy of M.V. Jantzen
The French get it. At least when it comes to food and romance. Mix Paris with a little New York and you have yourself a seriously original duo. Enter L’Enfant Cafe, a tiny bistro in Adams Morgan, and you see that America à la France at its greatest. It [...]
Drinks Special: Cocktails at Jack Rose
‘Mai Tai at Jack Rose’s Tiki bar’
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
Jack Rose Dining Saloon has been opening in stages, overlooking the seemingly interminable construction at the intersection of 18th Street and Florida Avenue NW. Now that the dust is finally clearing from the brand new sidewalk outside, its long-awaited dinner menu has debuted as well and [...]
Greetings from DC!
For fifteen years, the West-facing wall of Mama Ayesha’s restaurant on Calvert Street stood bricked and barren, save for a narrow painted banner of Middle Eastern desert. In 2007 it was time for a tune up, decided manager Mohammed Abu-El-Hawa, whose family has owned and operated the Adams Morgan icon since 1960.
Originally founded as Calvert Café [...]
Tryst $365 Giveaway from Scoutmob
Adams Morgan sure has it good with Tryst. I’m always in envy of my friends who live in close proximity to this classic coffeehouse – as they lounge around, using it as their office so often they get sandwiches named after them. It’s hard to believe Tryst’s been in operation since 1998, one of the [...]
More »A True Adams Morgan Original
All photos by the author.
From a lofty brick throne, a voluptuous redhead rules over Adams Morgan, watching and goading all manner of revelry like a contemporary Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. Her territory spans the 18th Street strip; her image an iconic symbol of throbbing crowds, vodka cranberries, and Jumbo Slice pizza.
But just two blocks away from [...]
He Loves DC: A Q&A with Christian Hunt
Once a month, on Saturday nights, Christian Hunt can’t be missed. He’s the guy in the bright red suit hosting the Capital City Showcase at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan. Hunt is a District native. He was born at Georgetown Hospital and raised in Glover Park.
“It’s funny because there are so many [...]
Mt. Pleasant Temporium is a Hit, Adams Morgan Gets Their Own
‘Temporium crowd’
courtesy of ‘neuefrau’
Pop-up stores, pop-up art exhibits, pop-up restaurants–I need to resist making the cliche that DC is literally “poppin’.” Moreover, all of these places seem to be having pretty successful runs.
Mt. Pleasant Temporium, which Rebecca Gross reported on earlier, took in $31,000 in sales in less than a month. The temporium was open [...]
We Love Food: Cashion’s Eat Place
‘Cashion’s’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
If there is one thing I have to thank Cashion’s Eat Place for, it’s that it single-handedly convinced my parents that Adams Morgan is not the hotbed of crime and dereliction it once was. It’s a completely different kind of hotbed than it was in the 70’s and 80’s, but that’s a discussion [...]
Friday Happy Hour: Holy Molé Hot Chocolate
It’s time for Friday Happy Hour, highlighting a drink we’ve recently enjoyed, every Friday at 4pm! Please share your favorites as well.
By all accounts, I could have gone in to the office after the big thundersnowstorm. Living pretty close to work, I do not have a hellish commute and anybody who has seen my closet [...]
We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn’s “The Art of Dating”
Jose lays the check directly between us. He couldn’t have have centered it more accurately if he’d held a ruler. The Pilot and I glance at the pleather billfold like it’s the elephant in the room it’s about to become.
- from Rachel Machacek’s The Science of Single
Earlier this week Katie interviewed one of her favorite [...]
We Love Drinks: David Fritzler
We Love Drinks continues our series where we look behind the bar, profiling the many people – from mixologists to bartenders, sommeliers to publicans – who make your drinks experience happen.
I first met David Fritzler back in January when fellow WLDC author Samer and I watched him pour up an impressive flaming Blue Blazer at [...]
Black Squirrel, DCRA duke it out in tweets
‘Black squirrel’courtesy of ‘Pianoman75′
When Matt Ashburn of Cap City Diner & DCRA had their public spat two years ago over permitting problems and an architect gone wild, it wasn’t hard to see that this was the future of Twitter: a way to engage with your city government that is totally public, two-way, and mostly transparent. [...]
High Heel Race needs volunteers
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courtesy of ‘dbking’
These lovely ladies need your help. Actually, they and all of their lovely lady friends, too. The annual High Heel Race is looking for volunteers to help secure the course, and handle registrations, and yes, hand out prizes too. The run down 17th street is an annual tradition that has taken on all [...]
Bathroom you’d best steer clear of: McDonald’s in Adams Morgan
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courtesy of ‘pterjan’
We’ve all been there, out on the town when the urge strikes. You can hold it, you can hope for a bathroom nearby, or you can run along home. Today, we bring you the story of Chele, who tried to used the ladies’ room at McDonald’s in Adams Morgan in the case of [...]
Hibernation Schedule for D.C. Area Farmers Markets
‘Late Season Harvest.’
courtesy of ‘leedav’
Now is that time of year when you wake up a little late Saturday morning and have that mental debate with yourself over whether to get up or roll over and sleep until it’s sunny again. Last year around this time I was having that very same fight, when I bribed [...]
Owen Wilson A Nats Pitcher In DC RomCom With Rudd & Witherspoon
Hey remember last year when that romantic comedy was filming around Adams Morgan and everybody was trying to get a look at Paul Rudd & Reese Witherspoon?
Well that film, How Do You Know, is slated to be released the day after my birthday (December 17th, 2010) and the first trailer has been released.
The film stars [...]
Fat Tire Comes to DC
‘”Fat Tire” – San Francisco’
courtesy of ‘adamjackson1984′
I’ve heard rumors that New Belgium was going to start shipping their famous Fat Tire beer out East, and it seems those rumors are true. The GOG reports that the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan snagged some bottles of the famous ale, along with a few other varieties from [...]
Madams Organ Happy Hour for Community of Hope
‘Madams Organ Restaurant’
courtesy of ‘KrS-NrY’
Drinking and philanthropy are two of my favorite things, and fortunately, they mix fairly well. That’s why I’m excited about the April 15 happy hour and Madams Organ benefiting local DC charity Community of Hope. Community of Hope provides medical care, affordable housing and other social services for DC’s disadvantaged. Madams [...]
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2010-02-19 AdamsMorgan Time Series Pano – 20×30 by m hoek
When I think of Adams Morgan, I think of twenty year old kids drinking enough cheap alcohol to bring themselves to the brink of death. I think of Big Slice with the smell of puke and hookah drifting through the air. I think of breakfast at [...]
