Lucky Danger Opening in Penn Quarter
Chef Tim Ma is opening a full-service version of his popular Lucky Danger carryout at 709 D St. NW in Penn Quarter, which formerly housed The Partisan, early next year.
Lucky Danger’s cashew chicken (Photo: Lucky Danger/Instagram)
Ma, whose restaurant Kyirisan closed right before COVID, launched Lucky Danger as a pandemic ghost kitchen in D.C. and then Arlington, specializing in comforting carryout classics like kung pao chicken, dumplings and lo mein.
In addition to a core takeout menu, the new location will have sit-down dining with shared plates and large-format dishes like Peking duck or the Chinese prime rib specials he’s run at Navy Yard restaurant Any Day Now.
The restaurant will also have a cocktail bar and a mahjong parlor in back where his father will teach lessons. The two were previously involved in Arlington’s mahjong-lounge Sparrow Room, which closed.
While “Americanized Chinese” food has been stereotyped as low-quality or not-gourmet-enough, Ma is among a new generation of chefs celebrating — and elevating — the cuisine, while sticking to its roots.
Ma has a few other projects that are set to open before the end of the year. Taco Cat, a classic and fusion taqueria, will open in Western Market Food Hall serving breakfast, lunch and happy hour. Kata DC, an Asian tapas and cocktail bar, will open in partnership with The Burns Brothers group in Penn Quarter.
Divino Opens Today in Glover Park Hotel
Divino’s doppio ravioli combine two ravioli in one.
(Photo: Marvin Torres)
Divino, a new Northern Italian restaurant focusing on multicolored pastas and wood-fired meats and vegetables, opens today at 2505 Wisconsin Ave. NW in the Glover Park Hotel.
The restaurant is from Daniel Perron, most recently executive chef at Charlie Palmer Steak, and Luca Giovannini, owner of Donahue cocktail lounge in Georgetown. The two met nearly 15 years ago while working at Blue Duck Tavern. They then reconnected on the opening team of Fiola Mare in Georgetown.
Perron, who was also executive chef of Trummer’s in Clifton, Va., and former Whaley’s seafood restaurant in Navy Yard, will change the menu often.
Divino features a pasta counter where diners can watch tortellini or tagliatelle being made from multicolored dough made with freshly milled Anson Mills flour. Examples include a black-striped agnolotti with braised oxtail made using activated charcoal and koginut squash ravioli pressed in the shape of pumpkins. A double ravioli combines tomato-infused dough stuffed with house-made ricotta and jumbo lump crab and a traditional egg yolk dough filled with honeynut squash and parmesan then topped with caviar.
Divino inherited a pizza oven from Michael Schlow’s Italian restaurant Casolare, which previously occupied the space and closed in December 2020. Divino won’t serve pizza but will use the oven for wood-roasted vegetable and meat dishes, highlighting local producers like Karma Farm in Monkton, Md., and pork purveyor Autumn Olive Farms in Columbia, Va. Also on the menu, a tomahawk ribeye costata that is dry-aged in-house and rubbed with miso and dried porcini powder.
The wine list includes at least 20 selections by the glass and features Barbaresco and Barolo, as well as Ferrari, a Champagne-like sparkling wine from Trento. Negronis and drinks that incorporate vermouth and wine will lead the cocktail program.
Divino is also open for breakfast. The owners hope to make the coffee bar a destination for espresso drinks plus house-made pastries like cornetti and bomboloni. There will also be heartier fare, such as a farmer’s frittata with salumi, heirloom peppers, goat’s milk feta and baby mixed lettuce; a breakfast sandwich with mortadella, scrambled eggs, stracciatella, marinated peppers and crispy potatoes; and lemon ricotta pancakes with whipped mascarpone, berries and maple syrup.
The refined-but-rustic dining room has terracotta floors and blue velvet banquettes. In the spring, the 60-seat patio will become a casual wine garden where diners can enjoy snacks and a glass of wine. For Christmas, the covered terrazza will have heat lamps with hot apple cider, chestnuts and roasted marshmallows.
The hotel will begin construction on a rooftop bar with sweeping views of D.C. and the monuments next April.
Divino is open from 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Taqueria Xochi Opens Today in Amazon’s HQ2
Taqueria Xochi opens Tuesday in Amazon’s HQ2 in Crystal City. (Photo: Taqueria Xochi)
Taqueria Xochi (pronounced “so-chee”) opens Tuesday at 1450 S. Eads St., Arlington, on the ground floor of Amazon’s HQ2 in Crystal City.
With its entire menu coming from family recipes, the restaurant aims for truly Mexican cuisine — not Tex-Mex. The menu features dishes including handmade tortillas, eight- to 10-hour braised birria and small batches of smooth guacamole. The restaurant also serves nine varieties of tacos, loaded fries and nachos, tortas and esquites.
Xochi’s signature dish is the cemita — a torta-like sandwich stuffed with Oaxaca cheese, chipotle peppers, beans, avocado, onions, tomato and mayonnaise. The dish can be ordered with crispy chicken, beef or eggplant milanese.
The restaurant first opened for take-out and delivery at 924 U St. NW in October 2020. It then opened a location in Square Food Hall, 1850 K St. NW. The Crystal City opening marks the taqueria’s first sit-down restaurant and first location outside of D.C. A fourth location in D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood is in the works for next spring.
Plans are to start happy hours at the newest restaurant and possibly expand its offerings.
Second Revolving Sushi Bar Opens in Rockville
Uzu Revolving Sushi opened Saturday in Rockville.
(Photo: Amy Orndorff)
A second conveyor-belt sushi restaurant opened in Rockville on Saturday.
Uzu Revolving Sushi officially opened at 1701 Rockville Pike in the Shops at Congressional Plaza. It had been in “silent opening” mode to test the kitchen and delivery of food to diners. The restaurant seats 100.
Uzu serves traditional Japanese nigiri, maki rolls and beverages such as sake and teas. The food is delivered on a conveyor belt system that winds through the restaurant. In addition, robots on a second, higher conveyor belt deliver dishes and drinks directly to diners.
The opening comes more than a month after Kura Revolving Sushi Bar opened a half mile down the street in Rockville’s Federal Plaza on Oct. 5.
The shopping center is also home to neighboring Kanpai BBQ Hotpot Buffet, Kajiken Ramen and Okaeri Japanese Café and Anime.
Minetta Tavern Set to Open Dec. 10
Minetta Tavern will open Dec. 10 in the Union Market District. (Photo: Corry Arnold)
Minetta Tavern, 12874 Neal Place NE, is opening Dec. 10.
A “Parisian steakhouse meets classic New York City tavern,” it will open in one of the neighborhood’s alleys. From Keith McNally, who partnered with Le Diplomate’s Stephen Starr to bring French bistro Pastis to the Union Market area earlier this year, the restaurant will serve the New York location’s famous Black Label burger and feature a similar moody wood-paneled aesthetic.
But it will differ from the Greenwich Village original with an upstairs lounge named the Lucy Mercer Bar, after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s mistress. It will be a plush early 20th-century inspired room for martinis, champagne and refined bites with caviar and truffles. Phones won’t be allowed.
The original Minetta Tavern opened in 1937 and became a hub for writers like E.E. Cummings and Ernest Hemingway. McNally, who also owns Balthazar, Pastis and Morandi in New York City, bought it in 2008 and made it a destination for celebrities and cultural figures.
McNally partnered with his director of operations Roberta Delice, who’s worked with him for 27 years, and Minetta Tavern New York chef Laurent Kalkotour on the D.C. location.
About 75% of the D.C. dishes come from New York. Dishes include roasted bone marrow, onion soup, dry-aged bone-in New York strip and the Grand Marnier or chocolate soufflé. New offerings include trout with beurre blanc and smoked trout roe as well as pork ragout-stuffed pig’s trotters on a bed of French lentils.
The menu also combines classics such as coq au vin and moules frites with lesser-seen French dishes like lobster bellevue with a lobster gelée atop lobster medallions on a bed of celery remoulade. A predominantly French wine list pairs with the food.
The upstairs menu features more refined small bites and appetizer-sized dishes, such as truffle-and-ricotta flatbread, smoked-salmon mille feuille with salmon roe and wagyu carpaccio with caviar. The Black Label burger will be there in slider form along with the French fries. The bar wine list will be a little more indulgent, and French-inspired cocktails will be intriguing but simple.
In-house artist Robert Padilla spent nine months painting a mural of historical Washington scenes in the downstairs dining room. It also features red leather banquettes and checkered floors, with illustrations, photographs and caricatures on the walls.
The reservations-only Lucy Mercer Bar features photographs of prominent political figures with their mistresses or rumored mistresses. It also has portraits of women with provocative eyes with plush velvet sofas, antique tables and lamps and a working fireplace.
Diners better be on their best behavior. McNally went viral a few years ago for banning talk show host James Corden for allegedly abusing the staff at Balthazar over egg white mixed into his wife’s egg-yolk omelet. The restaurateur famously put magazine editor Graydon Carter on blast after the “fancy Fucker” no-showed on a lunch reservation for 12 at Morandi. He also regularly posts managers’ end-of-night reports chock-full of juicy details about covers, complaints, comps and VIPs.
D.C.’s Second Fogo de Chao Opens at The Wharf
A second D.C. outpost of Fogo de Chao opened last week in The Wharf’s Phase 2. (Photo: The Wharf/Facebook)
D.C.’s second Fogo de Chão opened Nov. 11 at 698 Maine Ave. SW in The Wharf’s Phase 2 development by Hell’s Kitchen.
Just a 30-minute walk from D.C.’s first Fogo de Chao at 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the new 7,500 square-foot location is quite a bit smaller but has an outdoor patio surrounded by fire pits. An open churrasco grill gives guests a 360-degree view of gaucho chefs carving and roasting dry-aged proteins before they parade around the dining room. It seats 350 diners inside and 60 on the patio.
The Wharf’s endless meat experience with a salad bar ($67.50) is slightly cheaper than the D.C. original ($74). The all-day happy hour features $10 caipirinhas, $8 South American wines and $5 beers.
Fogo de Chao also has locations in Tysons Corner, Reston, North Bethesda and National Harbor.
Fogo de Chão was founded in Southern Brazil in 1979 and currently has more than 70 locations spread across Brazil, the U.S., Mexico and the Middle East.
The Wharf location serves lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. It is open 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. Holiday hours, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day, are 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
La Casita Pupuseria Opens in Laurel
La Casita Pupuseria opened Saturday in Laurel.
(Photo: La Casita Pupuseria)
La Casita Pupuseria opened its fifth location on Saturday at 14311 Baltimore Ave., Laurel.
Founded in 2002 in Silver Spring, La Casita now has locations in Gaithersburg, Laurel, La Cosecha in Union Market and Nationals Park in addition to Silver Spring along with a food truck.
The restaurant serves Salvadoran cuisine in a casual setting. The menu includes 18 kinds of pupusas made with rice and corn masa, soup, tamales, ceviche, enchiladas, tacos, salads, sandwiches, appetizers, platters and desserts.
La Casita Pupuseria in Laurel is open 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
El Taller del Xiquet Coming to Glover Park
El Taller del Xiquet’s fideuà, paella made with vermicelli noodles rather than rice. (Photo: El Taller del Xiquet/Facebook)
Chef Danny Lledó will open El Taller del Xiquet on the ground floor of his one-Michelin-starred tasting room Xiquet, 2404 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Glover Park, later this month.
El Taller will feature a bustling cheese cart, inventive paellas and desserts served a la carte.
Translated literally into “Xiquet’s workshop,” the new restaurant will serve almost as the research and development arm of its more formal sibling restaurant located upstairs. El Taller takes over the space formerly occupied by Slate Wine Bar, which closed in late 2022 to make way for another tasting room that never materialized.
Opting to go the a la carte route gives El Taller’s guests the freedom to choose appetizer, entree and dessert, or just some wine and cheese.
Like Xiquet, El Taller is intimate with just 14 seats. Unlike its prix fixe sister upstairs, El Taller will offer items that wouldn’t otherwise fit the progression of Xiquet’s menu. Xiquet doesn’t offer a cheese course, for example, but El Taller will have a cheese cart rolling around the room highlighting the cheese of Spain and the Valencia region.
Other dishes include a bass gravlax sustainably sourced from the Canary Islands served on brioche toast with capers and lemon caviar pearls. El Taller will also feature the famed paellas Lledó is known for, as well as fideuàs, which use vermicelli noodles rather than the bomba rice typically found in a paella. El Taller’s Fideuà de Gandia will be served tableside, accompanied by deep-sea Carabineros prawns with cuttlefish, monkfish and sea bass.
El Taller gives diners more options to choose from and Lledó the opportunity to create new things or repurpose old recipes that never made Xiquet’s menu. Offerings will change on a regular basis, highlighting both seasonally available ingredients as well as diner tastes.
Mediterranean Café Zevian Opens in Falls Church
Cafe Zevian opened last week in Falls Church. (Photo: Adem Kaplan)
Café Zevian, a Mediterranean restaurant from Adem Kaplan, opened last week at 700 W. Broad St., Falls Church, on the ground floor of The Kensington senior living facility. It replaces Famille, a French-inspired restaurant that closed in 2022.
The restaurant serves Turkish, Greek and Lebanese cuisines and offers breakfast, lunch and dinner, including a selection of meat and vegetable dishes.
Kaplan, who was born in Turkey, also owns nearby Italian restaurant Sfizi Cafe.
The menu features hot and cold mezes, seasonal vegetables and fresh salads. Other dishes include lentil soup, dolmas and doner kebabs — a Turkish meat dish cooked on a vertical rotisserie. For lunch, the kebab meat will be added to sandwiches made with a thin bread resembling naan or lavash. During dinner, there are beef sandwiches, lamb chops and plenty of seafood, including grilled octopus, sea bass and red snapper.
The 2,000 square-foot space includes a cafe bar, fireplace and armchairs. Booths and tables can seat up to 88 diners inside, while the outdoor patio has space for 42.
On St. Elmo Opens in Bethesda
On St. Elmo, a restaurant, bar and performance venue, opened Thursday in Bethesda. (Photo: Ella Griffin)
On St. Elmo, a coastal Mediterranean restaurant, bar, lounge and performance venue, opened last Thursday at 4915 St. Elmo Ave., Bethesda, in the former home of Tapp’d, which closed in 2019.
The 7,800 square-foot restaurant serves Mediterranean-inspired food and drinks with live entertainment.
In the coming months, On St. Elmo will offer live bands, jazz performers, DJs, dancers and burlesque shows starting at 11 p.m. In addition to entertainment, the venue has a 50-seat bar, two private event spaces and high-definition TVs placed so customers can watch from wherever they are sitting, eating or drinking.
The menu blends Southern, New Orleans and Mediterranean influences. It includes appetizers like crispy calamari. shrimp cocktail and hot lump crab and artichoke dip; salads; grilled chicken, steak and shrimp skewers; flat breads, and entrées like Chilean sea bass, pan seared scallops, braised lamb and a Moroccan half chicken.
On St. Elmo is open from 3 p.m.-midnight Tuesday through Thursday and 3 p.m.-3 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Happy hour is from 3-6 p.m. and dinner is served until 11 p.m.
Nash & Smash Sets Opening in Silver Spring
Nash & Smash, a Nashville hot chicken and smash burger restaurant, will open in Silver Spring’s Woodmoor Shopping Center by Dec. 15. (Photo: Robert Dyer)
Nash & Smash, a halal Nashville hot chicken restaurant, is coming to 10121 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, in the Woodmoor Shopping Center in the space that formerly housed Subway. The restaurant hopes to open before Dec. 15.
The restaurant serves Nashville hot chicken sandwiches, fried chicken, wings, tenders, smash burgers and more. Construction began last spring, and signs went up in the early summer.
Nash & Smash said the delay was caused by unexpected difficulties with their contractor. “We are committed to bringing our restaurant to life and are currently planning to open before end of December,” the restaurant said. The Virginia-based restaurant group has recently opened locations in Laurel, Ellicott City and Manassas.
Pisco y Nazca Aims for Early January Opening
Pisco y Nazca Ceviche Gastrobar hopes to open in Bethesda in early January. (Photo: Pisco y Nazca)
Peruvian restaurant Pisco y Nazca Ceviche Gastrobar is hoping for an early January opening at 7401 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, in the 2 Bethesda Metro Center space that formerly housed Cesco Osteria, which closed in 2022 after 25 years.
It will be Pisco y Nazca’s sixth location, joining others in Dupont Circle, Reston and three in Florida.
The menu at the seafood-heavy eatery includes parihuela de mariscos, a traditional seafood soup with shrimp; a variety of ceviches; sushi with Peruvian flavors such as queso fresco and aji Amarillo aioli; and Causas, a Peruvian dish of whipped potatoes with shrimp, chicken or tuna tartare. Other dishes include empanadas, fried yuca, burrata with quinoa, chicken stew, seared tenderloin and Peruvian-style chicken and rice.
The Bethesda location will be open from 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday.
Sarah’s Homemade Ice Cream Coming to P Street
Sarah’s Handmade Ice Cream will open a location on P Street NW. (Photo: Sarah’s Handmade Ice Cream)
Sarah’s Handmade Ice Cream is coming to 2029 P St. NW. It will be Sarah’s first location outside of Montgomery County.
“We’re coming to the heart of DuPont Circle, DC! This will be our [fourth] location, and we couldn’t thank you enough for being with us every step of the way,” Sarah’s posted last week on social media. “What began as a simple hobby turned into a passion project, grew from shop to shop, and now, it’s an American dream come true to open in the nation’s capital.”
Sarah’s has locations in Bethesda, North Bethesda and Rockville.
According to the ice cream shop’s website, Sarah’s was created by a Bethesda mother-daughter team, Sarah and Annie Park. When Sarah retired in 2018, she found herself with time to indulge in her old hobbies. She began to experiment and create original ice cream recipes for her family, friends and neighbors, fit for each occasion. Soon, she was receiving calls and orders from strangers for her handmade ice cream. The Parks decided to bring the homemade flavors to a River Road storefront in Bethesda. To stay true to Sarah’s commitment to the highest quality ice cream, they use local-whenever-possible ingredients and sticks to her small-batch, all-natural recipes.
Italian Eatery from Cava Coming to Potomac
An Italian restaurant from the people behind Cava Mezze, Melina, Julii and the forthcoming Bouboulina will replace Renato’s, which closed Sept. 30, at 10120 River Road, Potomac, in the Potomac Place Shopping Center.
Led by Chef Aris Tsekouras, who also oversees Julii, Melina and Bouboulina, the menu will feature fresh crudo, classic Italian meatballs, fried mushroom polenta, house-made pastas, burrata and chicken parmesan.
The restaurant is scheduled to open in 2025 and will be the group’s sixth full-service location in Montgomery County, joining Cava Mezze in Olney and Rockville, Julii and Melina in Pike & Rose and Bouboulina coming to Pike & Rose.
Also joining the shopping center Duke’s Grocery, which will open “immeninently” in the former Lock 72 Kitchen & Bar, which closed in 2023, at 10128 River Road.
Duke’s, which will seat 32 in the dining room and 14 in the bar area, will have its standard grocery items including sandwiches, salads, seasonal beverages, local beers and wine. Outdoor seating will also be available. The menu will include its double angus patty “Proper Burger” and a spicy eggplant sandwich, as well as British fare such as fish and chips and bangers and mash.
Mojitos Bar & Grill Coming to Gaithersburg
Mojitos Bar & Grill is opening in Gaithersburg’s Horizon Center. (Photo: Screenshot)
Mojitos Bar & Grill is coming to 8035-D Snouffer School Road, Gaithersburg, in the Horizon Center. The space was formerly Moonlight Sports Bar and Buffalo Wings & Beer before that.
“Mojitos Bar and Grill is your go-to destination for vibrant flavors, refreshing drinks and unforgettable experiences,” according to its website. “We specialize in crafting signature mojitos, mouthwatering margaritas and a variety of popular cocktails, perfectly paired with our delicious and diverse menu options.”
Signage is up, but no opening date has been announced. There is no online menu, but the hours are listed as 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
McDonald’s to Replace Arby’s on Rockville Pike
A McDonald’s will replace the Arby’s on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda. (Photo: Robert Dyer)
McDonald’s will replace the former Arby’s at 11710 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda.
Arby’s closed its last Montgomery County location in May 2021. Now, McDonald’s has received a permit valued at $1.15 million to remodel and enlarge the building.
There is an existing McDonald’s at 11564 Rockville Pike, which was recently renovated, just one block from the new location, which won’t likely be completed until sometime in 2025.
It is likely the existing White Flint restaurant closes when the new one opens. The major difference is that the new store at the old Arby’s location would have a drive-thru while the existing McDonald’s does not.
It 2021, it was reported that Shake Shack would be moving into the old Arby’s, but negotiations fell through, and the space has remained vacant for more than three years.
Ooh La La Bakery Aims to Open in Bethesda in May
Wheaton’s Ooh La La Bakery will open a second location in Bethesda. (Photo: Ooh La La/Facebook)
Wheaton’s Ooh La La Bakery plans to open a new location at 8231 Woodmont Ave. in downtown Bethesda on May 1.
Signage is posted on the windows of the future bakery space on the corner of Battery Lane and Woodmont Avenue. Construction is expected to start in December.
The French-style bakery makes pastries, pies, cakes, small desserts, quiche and bread. In addition, the bakery serves paninis, sandwiches, crepes and breakfast dishes.
Ooh La La Bakery is taking over the space that used to house The Shop Salon, which relocated to 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda.
Peet’s Coffee in Clarendon to Close on Sunday
Peet’s Coffee will close its Clarendon location on Saturday.
(Photo: Google Maps)
After nearly a decade, Peet’s Coffee, 3003 Washington Blvd., Arlington, in the Clarendon neighborhood is closing Nov. 24.
According to a spokesperson, the store’s lease is ending and the company decided not to renew it. Employees have been offered jobs at nearby locations.
In the last few weeks, the store’s hours were cut to 6 a.m.-2 p.m., seven days a week.
Peet’s opened in Clarendon in spring 2015. The California-based coffee chain has another Arlington location in Shirlington and several more across the DMV.
Brabo Brasserie to Be Replaced by HomeGrown
Brabo Brasserie in the Old Town’s Archer Hotel is being replaced by HomeGrown, a breakfast and lunch diner. (Photo: Cyndy K./Yelp)
Brabo Brasserie,1600 King St., Alexandria, is being replaced by a new location of the Midwest breakfast, brunch and lunch chain HomeGrown.
The restaurant is located inside the Archer Hotel Old Town Alexandria, formerly Lorien Hotel and Spa.
Chef Robert Wiedmaier opened Brabo by Robert Wiedmaier in 2009 in the former Lorien Hotel when it was owned by the Kimpton Group, although he hasn’t been associated with the restaurant for years. Wiedmaier’s Marcel’s and Brasserie Beck closed earlier this year. His RW Restaurant Group still owns Mussel Bar in Arlington and Bethesda.
Wichita, Kan.-based LodgeWorks Partners bought the hotel in June and converted it to an Archer Hotel. Under the new owner, the hotel is undergoing a $4 million redesign. HomeGrown is owned by Thrive Restaurant Group, which is also based in Wichita, Kan.
HomeGrown, which opened its first location in Wichita in 2017, has 11 locations in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Arkansas. It features a variety of breakfast foods like French toast, pancakes, omelets and eggs benedicts, as well as lunch options like salads, sandwiches and soups.
The eatery uses locally sourced ingredients and serves cage-free eggs, house-made pastries, fresh-squeezed orange juice, mimosas, bloody Marys and more.
Current HomeGrown restaurants are open 6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily.
Mi Casa Closes Abruptly in Dupont Circle
Mi Casa closed abruptly last Monday in Dupont.
(Photo: Caitlin P./Yelp)
Mi Casa, 1647 20th St. NW, closed abruptly in Dupont Circle last Monday, Nov. 11. It opened in July 2021.
The space was previously home to Bareburger and the Cosi that abruptly closed in 2014.
A sign on the door says, “Mi Casa Taqueria & Cantina has officially closed, but our fiesta lives on. Join us at Mi Vida 14th Street, 1901 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009…”
The restaurant’s website has been taken offline.
Alexandria Cupcake Closing, Will Sell Online Only
Alexandria Cupcake will close its Old Town store on Nov. 30 and sell online only. (Photo: Alexandria Cupcake/Facebook)
Alexandria Cupcake, 1022 King St., Alexandria, is shutting down retail operations and moving to online-only sales on Nov. 30.
Owner Adnan Hamidi told the Alexandria Gazette that the store is pivoting to advance orders, wholesale and catering. The storefront will close, but the cupcakes will still be available in some local restaurants, delis and boutiques, as well as available for order online.
Alexandria Cupcake was established in 2009 and the shop opened in Old Town in 2010. Hamidi said above market rising rents, inflation and the rising cost of supplies led to the decision to close the storefront.
Details on where online orders may be picked up will be coming on social media. The bakery will continue to accept orders for holidays, events, wedding and advance orders. Its focus will now be on advance orders, weddings and wholesale. The phone number will remain the same.
Editor’s note: This column has been updated to correct an address.
