Posts Tagged ‘coffee’
Sprinkles Cupcakes Comes To DC
There is a new edition to the saturated DC cupcake scene and it comes to M Street in Georgetown in the form of a pink and brown row house. Sprinkles Cupcakes, started in 2002 by Candace Nelson and her husband Charles, opened in 2002 in Beverly Hills, is the Magnolia Bakery of the West Coast and has been [...]
More »First Look: Pound the Hill
Nestled within the cozy confines of a turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania Avenue row building, lovingly restored by Karl Johnson and his co-owners, lies the newest addition to the Capitol Hill neighborhood, coffee shop and world bistro, Pound the Hill. Sporting an exposed brick and timber scheme and original plaster ceilings, Pound the Hill evokes a decidedly urban feel perfectly suited to its DC environs.
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new morning ritual by ekelly80
Last night I had a dream about a series of iPhone apps that would manage all of my day to day duties, organize my thoughts into coherent text messages and e-mails, add events to my calendar as soon as my eyes saw them online, and create to-do lists on the [...]
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 [...]
Free Coffee at Whole Foods
Whole Foods Market on P Street by Maryland Route 5
In case you’ve forgotten, April 15th is the only deadline you have as an adult, the day to send in your tax return. Some of you may have done your taxes on January 1st in order to buy an iPad with your refund, but many others [...]
You can Drink Your Coffee Naked, After All!
‘East Capitol Ave.’
courtesy of ‘Packherd’
The Fairfax Court of Appeals has ruled that it is legal to be naked in your own home. You may remember that a few months ago a neighbor saw Eric Williamson through a window walking around his house naked, enjoying some coffee. Said neighbor called the cops, who burst into Williamson’s Springfield home with guns drawn and arrested him. A [...]
So Where Does Your illy Take You?
‘Day 218: Andrea’
courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’
Okay area photogs, another contest for you to consider. Caffé at the Renaissance M Street Hotel is holding a photography contest in celebration of the upcoming FotoWeek. The contest calls for creative snapshots of where people have been with their cup of illy coffee, called “Where Does Your illy Take You.” [...]
We Love Drinks: Mid City Caffe
Within an hour of finishing a mocha at Mid City Caffe, I’d sped through the end of a dense Turkish mystery, sent some twenty frantic texts, moved mountains, healed the sick, and dropped way too much decor dough at Miss Pixie’s downstairs, lifting a huge wool rug effortlessly above my head the several blocks home. [...]
More »We Love Drinks: Coffee Culture
For many of us, it’s coffee, not liquor, that’s our “water of life.” I’m quite certain I could survive without alcohol. But I know I could never live without caffeine. I’ve tried really really hard to give it up, especially when I was diagnosed with a heart murmur and began to notice every jitter and [...]
More »Speaking of Starbucks
Bang! by Samer Farha
Last week we asked you to nominate the worst Starbucks in DC and we may now be able to name the winner: the 16th & U street location.
According to (an unprofessionally titled) article by NBC, a barista “accidentally shot himself in the leg Tuesday afternoon.” There aren’t many details about what went [...]
DC’s Worst Starbucks?
Starbucks by SWP Moblog
Let’s face it, you either love or hate Starbucks.
If you hate Starbucks, we understand, but this post is not for you so just skip to the next one below.
If you love it (or at least like it or are OK with it) tell us which one you think deserves the title of [...]
Grape + Bean Tasting Bar Opens in Alexandria
My love of all things wine is well-documented at this point. I’m turning into a regular at Eat Bar and Matt and my’s wine collection is growing by the day. So I was thrilled this morning to open up my DC Daily Candy and see that a new coffee and wine place is opening in Alexandria.
Grape + Bean is located [...]
Sweet Nectar of Life!
News alert! News alert! What’s that you say? Cheap coffee???! Better yet, cheap Dunkin’ Donuts coffee!?
From today until Nov. 11, coffee from your local Dunkin’ Donuts will cost 4 times less than your morning ‘Bucks or ‘Bou run! From 2-5 p.m. small hot and iced lattes will only cost you 99 cents! Now that’s something to [...]
DC Omnivore 100: 82 & 99
Best Eggs Benedict Ever, courtesy of zephyrbunny
Welcome to the first review of the 100 foods an omnivore in DC should partake of. We posted the full list already; here’s my take on two of them.
#82 Eggs Benedict. Ok, this isn’t a ‘new’ dish for me – I’m a connoisseur of this classic egg dish. It’s [...]
Starbucks Offering Discount
$2 after 2 p.m. by brownpau
You either love Starbucks or you hate it (or you’re somewhere in between like I am). Regardless, if you get your morning coffee there like I do, hold onto your receipt! According to an AP report, if you show the receipt from your morning caffeine fix, you can [...]
Stacy’s Coffee Parlor – Good Coffee, Good Folks and Good Books
I love coffee shops that encourage things like reading, sharing and creating community. After the recent tempest in a coffee pot I started, I was not sure whether I would be welcome back at Murky, so I went for a place I had not been to before. Stacy’s Coffee Parlor in Falls Church fit the [...]
More »Welcome to Murky. You Don’t Get it Your Way.
I am at Murky Coffee, where I just heard a conversation in which the barista told a guy that he was not allowed to pour his espresso over ice.
“But that’s how I want it,” the guy said.
“You can’t have it over ice. It ruins the quality of the coffee. It’s also against our store policy,” [...]
