So says DCist and our own Loose Lips over at City Desk, who wrote that "the Black Rooster has been revived, Lazarus-like, from the dead. Playing Jesus in this scenario, says owner Jody Taylor, would be Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans. 'The Black Rooster will crow again,' Taylor says. Asked what happened to prompted the [...]
If you ever doubted the fame of Ben Ali and the tiny chili stand he started in 1958, all you have to do is look at the news coverage detailing his death yesterday. News outlets across the country either ran the AP story or wrote short, tribute-oriented pieces of their own. Here are a few [...]
DCist is reporting that Mocha Hut has closed. We agree with the bloggers that its brunch was super awesome and relatively cheap. It literally was one of two decent options in the corridor. It was always Mocha Hut or Busboys and Poets for brunch. This will surely mean the lines at Busboys will be that [...]
People are brilliant. People are mindless cows. Today's roundup has a bit of both. Chow.com tells us how London's fast-food chicken outlets have escaped the Colonel's hatchetmen, including the creatively named Kent's Tuck Inn Fried Chicken.
The time has come, I think, to say no more stories on Joe Englert's H Street Country Club until he opens the damn place. This tease has been going on way too long. We here at the City Paper have been particularly susceptible to the hype; we started in two years ago with this item [...]
Today officially marks the release of the 2008 vintage of Beaujolais Nouveau, a period of drinking and merrymaking that I compare to New Year's Eve. It's for rookies.
