Posts Tagged ‘Capitol Hill’
Spike’s New Pizzeria Is Coming to Cap Hill. But First: Souvlaki!
Between his Web TV series, his burger joint, and his occasional public appearances, Spike Mendelsohn has been a hard man to reach. But this morning, the former Top Chefer gave Y&H an hour to talk about his latest projects, including his company’s takeover of Zack’s Taverna (aka Taverna The Greek Islands) on Capitol Hill, which will eventually become home to Mendelsohn’s new pizzeria.
A previous report had indicated that Mendelsohn and his long-time bud and business partner, Mike Colletti, would just add pizza to the menu at Zack’s, but the situation is more complicated than that. With his Hellenic heritage, Mendelsohn says he lobbied hard to open his own chef-driven Greek restaurant in the Taverna space, but others within his family-oriented company, Sunnyside Group, shot down that idea in favor of a pizzeria.
Mendelsohn says he’s actually happy with the group decision. Zack’s has “been a Greek restaurant for 65 years…It just needs a fresh look,” he says. “You can’t just do another Greek restaurant. It’s been too long.”
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Hill’s Kitchen: Your Home for State-Shaped Cookie Cutters
Capital Spice has a short interview with Leah Daniels, owner of Hill’s Kitchen, the cool 19th-century townhouse-cum-kitchenware-store on Capitol Hill. Team Spice asked Daniels if her store has a specialty. Her response, edited for my editorial convenience:
I am not sure that I would ever have thought that I would own a cookie cutter store, but it seems that I have chosen to specialize in cookie cutters. I sell all sorts of cutters from animals and train cutter sets to cutters for all the states.
Daniels’ answer reminded me of an incident at Hill’s Kitchen last weekend.
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Capitol Hill Matchbox Set to Open Tomorrow
After the usual delays, some wildly rampant speculation, and a couple of trial runs for friends and family, the new Matchbox, the second D.C. location in the budding chain, is set to open tomorrow on Capitol Hill.
For the first few weeks of operation, the Cap Hill Matchbox (521 8th St. SE) will serve dinner only, says co-owner Perry Smith. Brunch will be served this Sunday only but will expand to both Saturdays and Sundays the following weekend. The menu at both D.C. Matchboxes, Smith says, will be exactly the same.
That’s not to say, though, that the menu will be the same old, same old.
