More national acclaim for D.C.'s food scene: the trade journal Chinese Restaurant News has named Capitol Hill's Young Chow Chen Restaurant among the country's Top 100 Asian restaurants in the overall excellence category. A press release hails the eatery's "encyclopedia-like menu" of "more than 100 menu items." That hundred-some figure, by the way, is actually [...]
For weeks now, the long-delayed Crepes On The Corner kept a sign in the window: "Opening January We Promise." Well, they came close, anyway. "We're just one day late," says proprietor Marc Ross. The Capital Hill café finally opened this morning, serving its full menu of crêpes and coffee drinks made with beans from local [...]
Is Capitol Hill's long-delayed crêperie, Crepes On The Corner, finally ready to fire up its hot plates? Signage in the window this morning indicates the opening date is imminent. "I'm hoping the first week of January," chef and co-owner Vincent Bradberry tells Y&H. Bradberry says the eatery just obtained its certificate of occupancy and is [...]
Capitol Hill's longstanding Tex-Mex outpost and intern magnet Tortilla Coast—former home of the $8.95 all-you-can-eat "fajita orgy," a staple of this columnist's Saturday-night diet during his leaner, even more shallow-pocketed cub-reporter days—is aiming to open its second location in Logan Circle in mid-December. According to a press release, the new and improved Coast will focus [...]
Signage posted on the front door at the former Ba Bay this morning only adds to the mystery surrounding the contemporary Vietnamese eatery's sudden demise this week, vaguely attributed to "circumstances beyond our control." A broken water heater can't really be the reason, can it? Photo by Chris Shott
Lisa Nardelli, third-generation owner of Capitol Hill's storied Tune Inn, has done her best to restore the fire-ravaged bar as closely to its original state as possible—save for a few unfortunate deer butts. The popular 64-year-old watering hole is expected to reopen on Friday, provided it gets the green light from city inspectors. Part of [...]
Four months after a kitchen fire, Capitol Hill's storied Tune Inn is scheduled to reopen for business at 8 a.m. sharp on Friday, Nov. 4. Full details in press release form below:
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain was spotted at Capitol Hill pizzeria Seventh Hill on Sunday. The former CEO of Godfather's Pizza had just finished up an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" and showed up at the 7th Street SE pizza place for an interview and photo shoot for GQ. No word on what he [...]
Art Smith, owner of Capitol Hill's Art and Soul restaurant and former personal chef to celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey, has drawn the ire of at least one donkey lover with his comments about the surprising deliciousness of the four-legged mammal. On page 115 of the latest issue of National Geographic Traveler in the [...]
Capitol Hill bid goodbye to longstanding neighborhood institution Hawk 'n' Dove over the weekend. The Hill offers a proper eulogy, complete with quotes from U.S. Rep Barney Frank, as well as long-time proprietor Stuart Long, who calls the closure "the end of my adult life." After learning that the lease on the property would be [...]
