Really, it's OK to slurp your noodles at Toki Underground [NBC Washington] The new management at beleaguered Shaw's Tavern is feeling optimistic about its chances. Maybe someday soon, the place will actually be allowed to serve drinks. [Eater DC] The couple behind Le Caprice DC in Columbia Heights aims to “make people stop saying you [...]
In terms of sheer beer volume, the new Rustico in Ballston will eclipse its parent operation in Alexandria. The Arlington spot, which officially opens for lunch today, will have 400 beers available by bottle, 40 by draft, and three on cask. By comparison, the original Rustico on Slaters Lane practically feels like Hank Dietle's Tavern. [...]
This may be the most painfully cute sugar cookie ever. I say "painfully" because the beehive-shaped treat is available at, ahem, Buzz Bakery in Alexandria, where pastry chef Josh Short created it several years ago for a fundraiser. Now it's permanently on the menu at Buzz. I have to admit, over the years, I have [...]
We here at WCP HQ finally unleashed our annual Best of D.C. issue yesterday, and I guess I should say this out loud so that it's official: 2010 is the year of ChurchKey, the Neighborhood Restaurant Group beer emporium near Logan Circle. The watering hole dominated the Food & Drink section this year, winning two categories outright and even inspiring [...]
Kyle Bailey was shopping for wedding rings with his fiancee at a Jersey City mall last month when he got a call on his cell. He didn't recognize the number, but he decided to take the call anyway. On the other end of the line was Michael Babin, co-owner of Neighborhood Restaurant Group, who was [...]
Birch & Barley/ChurchKey, the long-delayed project from the ever-expanding Neighborhood Restaurant Group empire, should open in September, even though NRG still hasn't hired a chef for the gastropub in the former Dakota Cowgirl space on 14th Street NW. So says Michael Babin, co-owner of NRG. "I say that with all the necessary anxiety and stress," [...]
For reasons that don't bear close scrutiny, I found myself last week wandering the streets around Logan Circle on an unseasonably warm afternoon. Like others in the 'hood that day, I pressed my face against the window of the old Dakota Cowgirl space, hoping to see how far construction crews were on the forthcoming Birch [...]
I just got off the phone with Kevin Tyldesley, director of operations for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, who tells me that the company behind such eateries as Rustico and Vermilion will not be, as previously reported here and elsewhere, a partner in Andy Shallal's upcoming Eatonville project.
