If there’s anything that grips Y&H readers, it’s tragedy, and it doesn’t get much more tragic than the homicide of Nori Amaya, the co-owner of Coppi’s Organic on U Street. People were obviously desperate for information on the strangulation. Even our negligible little item was widely visited.

Here’s how the week shook out:

1. Nori Amaya’s Friends and Fans Express Their Grief on Her Facebook Page
2. A Certain Goddamn Budweiser Beer That People Can’t Stop Reading About
   
3. Birch & Barley Opens Today. What’s Inside? (This item is quickly entering Select 55 territory.)
   
4. Tom and Derek Brown to Channel Spirits and Iggy Pop at the Passenger
   
5. D’Acqua Shutters, Ping Pong Dim Sum Set to Open Next Month
   

Coming soon to Penn Quarter: Ping Pong Dim Sum

The dining gods giveth. The dining gods taketh away.

Missy Frederick at Washington Business Journal is reporting that D’Acqua, the downtown Italian eatery with the emphasis on fresh seafood, shut its doors for good on Oct. 30. Writes Frederick on her Top Shelf blog today:

I just spoke to [D'Acqua chef/owner Enzo] Febbraro about the closing. He declined to reveal specific numbers, but said that “the landlord got a little too greedy” and asked for a dramatic rent increase on the space. Febbraro wasn’t willing to pay it, and decided “to play hardball.”

“We’re trying to find new location, because we did a good amount of business there,” Febbraro said. The new location likely will be a smaller one, he said.

The Verizon Center D’Acqua and Forno will remain open, he said.

Meanwhile, the London-based Ping Pong Dim Sum will open its first U.S. outlet next month in Penn Quarter. According to a press release issued today, the restaurant will be located at 900 7th St. NW, between the Verizon Center and the Washington Convention Center.

Just don’t expect to see any carts at this modern dim-sum palace. So says the release:

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