Storm Jonas is set to arrive Friday afternoon and what started as a weekend packed with events has now turned into a weekend with very little to do besides hibernate with your last-minute grocery haul. Although the majority of events in the DMV have been canceled, one sole survivor stands! If you’re in the Navy Yard neighborhood, be sure to grab your winter coat and a ticket for Ice Yards. But be sure to check the events page before you do. Also check our list of canceled events to see if your plans for this weekend have been rescheduled for another date and time.

If you haven’t heard already, Metro will be shutdown for the entire weekend starting at 11 p.m. on Friday. Bus service will operate under a “severe” snow weather plan meaning buses will only operate on major corridors until 5 p.m. Be sure to check with WMATA on routes. And please, stay safe!

Many events have been rescheduled or canceled because of the approaching blizzard that could dump about 2-feet of snow on the DMV. (Photo: Getty Images)

What’s been rescheduled

The Washington Auto Show has been postponed until Jan. 25 at noon at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW.

Film Screening: The Man Who Would Be Second has been rescheduled to Jan. 29 at 7 p.m.

Levity Comedy Show has been to Saturday, Feb. 6. All tickets will be honored.

Cathedral Sings: Music for Kings and Queens was rescheduled for Jan. 31.

Ice Yards has been moved from Saturday to Sunday.

The Fillmore has moved Friday’s Rebelution concert to Jan. 25.

The Rosebud Film Festival scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, will be postponed until Jan. 30 and 31.

Garth Brooks’s concerts originally scheduled for Friday and Saturday in Baltimore have been postponed until next weekend.

Sips & Suppers has been rescheduled for Jan. 30.

Tiësto’s Echostage shows have been moved to Mar. 25-26.

What’s been postopned

The Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse has postponed comedian Chris Gethard‘s shows.

The Birchmere has postponed its weekend shows: Marshall Crenshaw & the Bottle Rockets will be Mar. 18, Emily West will be Mar. 24 and Roam Through Time will be Feb. 1.

The Black Cat has postponed Friday’s Jungle/Fever show and Saturday’s New Order Dance Party. Other events and happy hours are still on.

Gypsy Sally’s has postponed its Friday and Saturday lineups.

Rams Head Onstage has postponed its weekend shows.

Wolf Trap has postponed three weekend shows: Robyn Hitchcock, Marcia Ball and the Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

What’s been canceled

Reseeing Iran: Twentieth Annual Iranian Film Festival has been canceled.

Poetry & Prose Open Mic has not been rescheduled. The next open mic will be held on Apr. 10.

Aspen String Trio has not been rescheduled.

The D.C. Rollergirls‘ Saturday bout at the D.C. Armory has been canceled.

Strathmore will be closed Friday-Sunday; AMP by Strathmore has canceled its Big Pants & Hot Flashes and Chopteeth shows this weekend.

What’s still on

Boozy sno cones and live music await those who can make it out to Ice Yards 2016!

Ice Yards 2016

With promises of ski chalet vibes, boozy sno cones and live music, it is hard to believe there is a better way to spend a couple of chilly hours than at Ice Yards 2016. If you’re able to dig yourself out of Storm Jonas, head on down to Yards Park for this snow-themed gathering for a little bit of winter fun. Snow or shine!

Jan. 24 from 2-6 p.m. at The Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. Admission is $10. Tickets can be purchased online.

Alfa Romero is back with a display at the 2016 Washington Auto Show. (Photo: Daniel Gray/Facebook)

Washington Auto Show

The annual Washington Auto Show allows manufacturers to exhibit what they’ve got and demonstrate what they’re working on, both for policy-makers and the car-buying public. Gearheads can gawk at more than 700 rides from 42 manufacturers, from concept vehicles and exotic ports car to historic vehicles, like the 1915 Model T Ford.

Jan. 25-31 from noon on weekday and 10 a.m. on weekends at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW. Adult tickets are $12, children’s tickets are $5 and VIP tour tickets are $40.

Executive Editor Mark Heckathorn contributed to this report.

The snow may still be saying winter, but early Sunday morning the time will say spring when daylight savings time begins and time springs ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Although next week promises a warming trend, this weekend is still supposed to be bone chilling, so we have a long list of indoor activities to fill your time. But for the brave or Irish, there’s always the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Old Town Alexandria on Saturday.

This weekend, Orange Line trains will operate at regular intervals. Red Line trains will run every 16 minutes between Shady Grove and Glenmont and every 8-10 minutes between Friendship Heights and Silver Spring, from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; Green and Yellow Line trains every 15 minutes. Blue Line trains will operate normally between Franconia-Springfield and Stadium-Armory, and Silver Line trains will operate normally between Wiehle-Reston East and Stadium-Armory. Both Blue and Silver line trains at Largo Town Center, Morgan Boulevard, Addison Road, Capitol Heights and Benning Road will operate every 20 minutes. Also, at 2 a.m. on Sunday. At that time, clocks will move ahead one hour, it will become 3 a.m. and the Metrorail system will close. The last trains of the evening will move through stations between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. EST.

Spainish dancer and choreographer María Pagés brings the U.S. premiere of her 2011 work Utopía to the Kennedy Center’s Iberian Suite Mar. 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25-$60. (Photo: David Ruano)

Iberian Suite: Global Arts Remix

The Kennedy Center’s three-week long Iberian Suite: Global Arts Remix is a festival of theater, dance, music, visual arts, literature, design, cuisine and film highlighting the many cultures that comprise the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking peoples. The Iberian Peninsula is home to Portugal and Spain, which laid claim to much of North and South America, and coastal Africa long before Britain began exploring new worlds. The festival includes dozens of performances by some of the world’s best contemporary music, dance and theater artists, many who are making their U.S. or D.C. debuts. Visual arts are highlighted in exhibitions and installations around the building, and additional events focus on literature, film, cuisine and more.

Through Mar. 24 at various times at the Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. The full schedule is available here. Tickets range from FREE to $100.

Orchid Month at Hillwood

March is orchid month at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. (Photo: Hillwood)

March is Orchid Month at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. Surround yourself with the warmth and fragrance of Hillwood’s greenhouse this winter and see hundreds of orchids blooming in concert. With a greater number and variety of orchids in bloom during March than any other season, a month-long focus on the exotic beauties features workshops, tours and colorful displays. All month long visitors can get behind the scenes of the working greenhouse with Jason Gediek, head of design operations, and learn more about its history, Marjorie Post’s infatuation with orchids and the exotic blooms and fragrances on display at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesdays, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Fridays and 12:30 p.m. Saturdays included with admission. This Friday from 1-3 p.m. and Saturday from 1:30-3:30 p.m., attend the hands-on workshop “To Repot or Not.” Orchids need to be repotted every 1-2 years. Each type of plant requires a different potting material and technique. Your plant will leave this workshop with a “good home” and reward you with years of gorgeous flowers. Cost is $30 or $25 for Hillwood members. Advance registration is required. This Saturday from 10 a.m.-noon, learn how to get your orchid to rebloom in another hands-on workshop. Learn how to care for your orchid in order to get more flowers. Orchids can last for decades and offer countless blooms during their lifetime. Take an orchid or two from your collection and get specific pointers on everything from watering and pruning to the proper light and fertilizer. Cost is $30 or $25 for Hillwood members. Advance registration is required.

Through March at various times at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. Click here for a full schedule or to purchase tickets.

Amp opens with Jay Farrar, Toshi Reagon

The new Amp, a more casual entertainment venue by Strathmore, opens today in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose district with full food service. (Photo: Amp)

Amp, Strathmore’s new more casual younger brother in the Pike & Rose development along Rockville Pike, opens this weekend with back-to-back concerts Friday and Saturday by Americana alt-country singer Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo, and Toshi Reagon of Big Lovely with jazz drummer Allison Miller and local electronic musician Be Steadwell on Sunday. So far, 40 shows that straddle genres from Go Go to racy cabaret, folk, jazz, rock and and more, with concerts by low-fi indie band Lower Dens, an album release by award-winning cabaret singer Mark Nadler, Reggae Beatles tribute band Yellow Dubmarine, Amigos Band, bluegrass icon Alice Gerrard and Talking Heads tribute band Psycho Killers, among others. You can dine on food or sip drinks from Neighborhood Restaurant Group, which owns Bluejacket, Birch & Barley, Churckey, Red Apron and more, before or during the show.

Mar. 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. with Jay Farrar and Mar. 8 at 7:30 p.m. with Toshi Reagon and Allison Miller at Amp, 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. Tickets for Jay Farrar are $30 and $45 and tickets for Toshi Reagon are $35. Tickets are available online or at the box office.

The Washington Travel & Adventure Show returns to the convention center this weekend. (Photo: Unicomm)

Travel & Adventure Show

The 11th annual Washington, D.C. Travel & Adventure Show comes to the convention center this weekend just in time for snow-weary residents to book an exotic getaway. Speakers on three different stages include travel expert and author Rick Steves on European travel, travel expert and publisher Pauline Frommer on money saving methods of travel and less usual destinations, Travel Channel host Samantha Brown on how world travel has changed, author Patricia Shultz on incorporating romance, food, adventures and culture, and author Josh Gates off-the-map excursions. New this year is the Savvy Traveler Theater, where visitors will get how-to tips on traveling smarter and more hassle-free including “How to Fix Your Trip When It Breaks,” with USA Today travel columnist Christopher Elliott and “Travel Skills, Tips & Tricks: Know Before You Go,” with The Travel Ambassador Angel Castellanos.

Mar. 7 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Mar. 8 from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Walter E Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. Admission is $11 in advance for adults online or $16 at the door, two-day tickets are $17 in advance and $25 at the door. Children 16 and under are free.

Studio Ghibli Collection

My Neighbor Totoro from Studio Ghibli will show at E Street Cinema at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. (Photo: Studio Ghibli)

It’s time for E Street Cinema’s annual series showcasing the Studio Ghibli Collection, the source of such rabidly beloved Japanese animated films like Princess Monoke and Spirited Away. There are two matinees every Saturday and Sunday through mid-April, and many of the selections are being shown in 35mm. It starts this weekend with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, set in a devastated future decimated by atmospheric poisons and swarming with gigantic insects, it is the story of a brave and innocent young princess whose love for all living things and passionate determination to understand the processes of nature lead her into terrible danger, sacrifice and eventual triumph, and My Neighbor Totoro, a tale of two girls who move with their father to a new house in the countryside and discover that the surrounding forests are home to a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who live in a huge and ancient camphor tree and are seen only by children. While most of the films are appropriate for children, all are in Japanese with English subtitles except Totoro, which is in English.

Saturdays and Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. through Apr. 12 at E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Tickets are $9 for adults and $8.50 for children and seniors online or at the box office.

Nowruz Festival

A child jumps over a faux fire at last year’s Nowruz Festival. (Photo: Smithsonian Institution)

The Freer and Sackler Galleries celebrate Nowruz, the springtime holiday that marks the start of the Persian year 1394. This pre-Islamic festival, whose name means “new day,” has roots in the ancient, fire-revering Zoroastrian religion and is believed to be 3,000 years old. Today, it is observed in Iran and parts of Turkey, Iraq, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Children can observe many of the traditions like “jumping over the fire,” a purification ritual of jumping over bonfires using faux fires outside made of orange cloth “flames” blown by fans; haft sin (meaning “seven s’s”), a table laid out with seven foods all starting with the letter “s” in Persian including apples for fertility and beauty, hyacinth for fragrance, wine vinegar for immortality and eternity, wild olives for fertility and love, wheat, barley or lentil sprouts growing in a dish for rebirth, wheat sprout pudding for sweetness and coins for wealth. At the Sackler, you can make your own haft sin paper collage. The New York-based band Mitra Sumara, featuring Iranian-American vocalist Yvette Perez, singing Persian pop songs from the 60s and 70s at the Freer and U.K. storyteller Xanthe Gresham will share traditional Persian tales in the Ripley Center at noon, 2 and 4 p.m. For a complete schedule, click http://www.asia.si.edu/events/nowruz/downloads/schedule-2015.pdf here.

Mar. 7 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive and 12th St. NW, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. Admission is FREE!

34th annual Alexandria St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Bagpipers in the 2014 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Old Town Alexandria. (Photo: Bellyshaners)

It may not be Mar. 17 yet, but break out your green and head to Old Town Alexandria for its 34th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. This year’s theme is “Women of Irish Heritage” and the grand marshall is Laureen O’Neill-James, owner of the O’Neill-James School of Dance and a member of the Irish Cultural Hall of Fame. Festivities also include a classic car show on Pitt Street between King and Cameron Streets beginning at 10 a.m. There will be a dog show beginning at 11:15 a.m. in Market Square, 301 King St., with prizes for best tail wag, smallest dog, biggest dog, best Irish costume, best adopted dog and best owner/dog look-a like.

Mar. 7 starting at 12:30 p.m. along King Street between Alfred and Lee Streets, Alexandria. Admission is FREE!

Brewer’s Ball

Participants at the 2014 Brewer’s Ball sample beer and food from local breweries and restaurants to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. (Photo: Timothy Ludin Photography)

Sample a variety of hand-crafted beers from more than 35 of the region’s craft breweries at the http://dcbrewersball.org/ Brewer’s Ball Local favorites like Bluejacket, Mad Fox Brewery, Port City, Heavy Seas and Flying Dog will rub elbows with nationally renowned brands like Dogfish Head, Goose Island, Ommegang, Lagunitas, and Allagash. Representatives from many of the breweries will be on-hand to chat about the beers they’re serving, which gives both beer aficionados and beginners plenty of chances to ask questions and learn more about the beer and breweries. Guests will also enjoy food from more than 25 local restaurants. The evening features live entertainment and one of the DMV’s most memorable silent auctions all to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Mar. 7 from 7 p.m.-midnight at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. Tickets are $135. SOLD OUT!

From Liberty Tea to Freedom Fries

The Culinary Historians of Washington present the talk, From Liberty Tea to Freedom Fries with Towson University Nancy J. Siegel. Metaphors linking food to politics have a long American history. In 1774, an author likened the lack of control over the American colonies to a crumbling cake The domestic language of food was easily understood, and this culinary vocabulary occurs most emphatically in the gendered space of the kitchen, where hostesses prepared Election Cake, Independence Cake and Democratic Tea cakes in praise of the new and fragile nation. Siegel’s talk explores how and why a culinary vocabulary was used as a language of political expression in the years of the Early Republic.

Mar. 8 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Bethesda/Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Meeting Room A, Bethsesda. Admission is FREE!

Women in Jazz

Professors, female musicians and activists from Sweden and the DMV will generate new thoughts and ideas about creating a new music scene across the globe at the Women in Jazz panel on women’s equality in music. Individual presentation and a panel discussion address the challenges of working for gender equality in music in general and jazz in particular. The event will be followed by a jazz concert with Swedish and American performers as part of the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. The concert features RAW Sound Sweden and Ephemera.

Mar. 8 with the panel from 4-5:40 p.m. followed by the jazz concert from 5:30-9 p.m. at the House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. in Georgetown. Admission is FREE! Cash bar is available. RSVP http://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-women-in-jazz-events-a-panel-on-gender-in-music-jazz-concert-sold-out-tickets-15878913257 here.

J&G Steakhouse owned by chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the W Hotel will close permanently on June 23. The hotel and Vongerichten’s Culinary Concepts Hospitality Group have ended their five-year contract.

J&G Steakhouse at the W Hotel downtown, which just remodeled last fall, will close permanently later this month. (Photo: Mark Heckathorn/DC on Heels)

The restaurant closed last August and September last year to remodel and retool its menu.

Hotel officials have not revealed any details on the new concept, but said chef Richard Wiggins will replace Philippe Reininger and oversee all dining including the rooftop P.O.V Lounge and room service. Wiggins has worked with Starwood Hotels the past eight years, most recently at the Westin St. John Resort & Villas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Plans for the new eatery are to be announced in the coming weeks, with a late-summer opening.

Barry Koslow, the chef behind DGS Delicatessen since its opening at 1317 Connecticut Ave. NW, will leave the restaurant June 20 to helm the W Hotel’s new upscale eatery. Brian Robinson, a sous chef at DGS, will replace Kaslow there.

“It’s a very exciting opportunity for me,” says Koslow of the new spot, which he says is a fine-dining restaurant. “I’m returning to my roots.”

American Eats Tavern debuts at Tysons Ritz-Carlton

José Andrés’ America Eats Tavern, a recreation of his 2011 Penn Quarter pop-up, opened June 2 in the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Blvd., McLean. The space formerly housed Michel Richard’s Michel, which closed in 2012, and Maestro, an acclaimed restaurant from Fiola chef Fabio Trabbochi before that.

The new America Eats Tavern at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner. (Photo: R. Lopez)

The restaurant is an ode to American cuisine. It originally opened as a pop-up at 405 Eighth St. NW in the space that once housed Café Atlántico and Minibar in conjunction with the National Archives’ exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?”

The décor and menu both pay homage to America, Andrés’ adopted home. The restaurant is decorated with antique furniture pieces, classic American books, Mason jars and “We the People…” on the wall above the open kitchen.

Executive chef Nate Waugaman, formerly of Tallula, is serving up regional dishes such as chicken pot pie and she-crab soup using local ingredients.

The restaurant is serving breakfast, a first for Andrés in Washington. The morning menu includes classics with Andrés twist such as an egg-white omelet soufflé with asparagus and morels, johnny cakes, eggs a la benedick made with pork belly, waffles a la mode, shrimp n’ grits, maple glazed scrapple and house-made doughnuts with blackberry jelly. There’s also a Hangtown Fry – scrambled eggs, fried oysters and bacon — which according to the menu comes with notes on the food—scrambled eggs, fried oysters, caramelized onions and bacon—which according to the menu originated during the gold rush in 1849 in Hangtown, Calif., a rough mining town known for public hangings and gold strikes. When a prospector struck gold he celebrated by ordering this dish at the Carey House Restaurant.

The lunch and dinner menu includes Chesapeake soft-shell crabs, hushpuppies, Buffalo wings, chicken and dumplings, Virginia hams and peanut soup. Entrees include chicken pot pie, crawfish jambalaya for two, fried chicken with “cold slaw” and house-made hot sauce. Texas-style beef short ribs, blackened scallops and mutton with oysters.

The drink menu includes “locovore” cocktails, featuring local spirits and ingredients, such as the Peach Grove with bourbon, peach puree, lemon and demerara syrup; the Tractor Pull with bourbon, orange marmalade, maraschino, lemon and elderflower vinegar; the Counting Chickens Before They Hatch with white whiskey, strawberries, rhubarb and lime; and the Green Acres with vodka, cucumber, fennel, lime and grapefruit bitters. There are also classic cocktails, beer and wine by the bottle or glass.

American Eats Tavern is open daily from 6:30-11:30 a.m. for breakfast, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. for lunch and 4:30-10 p.m. for dinner.

Brookland’s Finest to open on June 9

Brookland’s Finest Bar & Kitchen, 3126 12th St. NE, will open Monday. The family friendly restaurant located in the Brookland section of northeast D.C. will serve American comfort food for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Brookland’s Finest will open on Monday. (Photo: Popville)

Owner Frank Hankins describes the restaurant’s look as rustic industrial with exposed beams and brick, plenty of natural light and concrete and metal accents.

Chef Shannan Troncoso will oversee a comfort food menu featuring soups, salads and small plates including a charcuterie board, bay shrimp and grits, Maryland crab cake sliders, oven roasted butter beans and Lardon bacon mac and cheese. Small plates range from $12-$15. Sides are $4-$5 and include crispy Brussels sprouts chips, pretzel bites, house cut fries, tempura onion rings and a spiced nut sampler.

Sandwiches, which range from $12-$14, include the Colonel burger with pickled onions, Tillamook cheddar, apple wood smoked bacon on a brioche bun with tempura onion rings; a Baltimore style pit beef sandwich with tiger sauce and pickled ramps on a brioche buns and hand cut fries; porchetta with roasted suckling pig, sausage and arugula, mozzarella with whole grain mustard sauce on Italian bread with hand cut chips; a fried green tomato “B”LT with braised portabella mushroom, spinach and sweet onion aioli on soda bread with hand cut fries; a blackened chicken club with apple wood smoked bacon and roma tomatoes with Dijon aioli on brioche bread and hand cut fries; and a turkey Panini with goat cheese, cucumber, sundried tomato spread and creamy vinaigrette with hand cut chips.

Entrees, which range from $16-$27, include a bone-in pork chop, oven roasted half chicken, seared salmon and grits, spaghetti and meatballs, a porcini rubbed rib eye steak, friend Maryland catfish and a seasonal pasta.

Brookland’s Finest will open at 7 a.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. on weekends.

Pinstripes to open second area location in MoCo

Pinstripes, the bowling and bocce bistro that opened in the Shops at Georgetown Park in February, will open a second location in the DMV in 2016.

Pinstripes, which opened in Georgetown in February, will open a second area location in North Bethesda in 2016. (Photo: Pinstripes)

The restaurant, which serves Italian and American cuisine and wines, and has bocce courts and bowling lanes, signed a least with with Federal Realty Investment Trust for Phase II of its new Pike & Rose mixed-use development in Montgomery County. Located at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Rockville Pike, Pinstripes will occupy 32,000 square feet of first and second floor indoor/outdoor space.

The Pike & Rose location will feature 14 bowling lanes, 10 indoor and outdoor bocce courts, a bistro and wine cellar, outdoor patios with a fireplace and event space that will hold 20 to 600 people.

“The energy and diversity of amenities and attractions at Pike & Rose perfectly complements our entertainment and dining venue which provides a completely unique customer experience,” stated Dale Schwartz, Pinstripes founder and CEO. “The development has successfully combined shopping, cultural, dining and entertainment uses that positions Pike & Rose as the gathering spot and center for nighttime activity in Montgomery County.”

Pinstripes will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, and will soon be taking reservations for private events and parties.

Pike & Rose, currently under development in the North Bethesda area where the Mid-Pike Plaza formerly stood, will include 3.4 million square feet of mixed-use development including 1.1 million square feet of commercial office space; 430,000 square feet of retail space; 1,500 residential units; a boutique hotel and approximately 4,000 parking spaces. It is within walking distance to the White Flint Metro Station.

Phase I, scheduled to open this fall, will include an iPic Theatre, Del Frisco’s Grille, Protein Bar, Roti, ShopHouse, Chipolte, La Madeleine, Stella Barra Pizzeria and Summerhouse restaurants. Also, Strathmore will open its AMP music venue there. In mid-2015, Neighborhood Restaurant Group will open a beer garden on Muse Alley.

Dangerously Delicious Pies closes in Union Station

Dangerously Delicious Pies has closed its location in the Union Station food court, just two years after opening in the old Vacaro’s location.

Dangerously Delicious Pies in Union Station has closed. (Photo: Chris I./Yelp)

“We just closed last week as they begin renovations and begin replacing the escalator, which is currently shut down, that ran directly in from of our spot in the food court,” said owner Sandra Basanti. “There is some major construction going on in that wing. We had so many lovely regulars visit us that have reached out and we are sad to not be able to serve them every week, but we hope to be invited back to serve pies at Union Station perhaps after renovations or in a new spot.”

Dangerously Delicious Pies’ other two locations, the original DC location at 1339 H St. NE and their newest location at 901 7th St. NW, as well as its food truck are still open.

Home of $1,000 sundae closes

Serendipity 3, 3150 M St. NW, the Georgetown restaurant that offered the $1,000 Golden Opulence sundae has closed. Between a temporary closure due to health-code violations and a brawl between the owners, Serendipity has had a bumpy ride in Washington since opening in the former Nathan’s space in 2011.

Serendipity 3 in the old Nathan’s hot dog shop in Georgetown has closed because it owed almost $100,000 in back rent and utilities. (Photo: Google Maps)

The pricey sundae was made with a vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18 carat gold. The restaurant also offered a $25,000 Frrrozen Haute Chocolote, made with a frozen hot chocolate mix that contains 14 rare and secret cocoas from Africa and South America and shavings from the world’s most expensive truffle served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18 carat gold and white diamond bracelet attached to the neck.

According to court documents, the landlord, 3150 M Street LLC, filed a lawsuit in the Landlord and Tenant Branch of D.C. Superior Court seeking to evict the restaurant on March 12. The landlord sought base rent of $20,000 per month for February and March along with unpaid utilities, taxes, late fees and attorney fees totaling $98,921.54.

According to court records, operator 3150 M Street Restaurant Group LLC, owned by Rodrigo Garcia and Britt Swann, has been sued four other times since 2011 in small claims court including suits by ADT Security, Register Equipment Co. and Cannon Fish Market. All those have been closed. However a civil case filed by linen company ALSCO is seeking $8,480 for unpaid linen rentals and additional fees is still open.

“I am the owner of the Serendipity 3 brand and for nearly 60 years I have operated the New York Flagship restaurant,” said Serendipity 3 founder Stephen Bruce in a statement. “The Georgetown restaurant was not operated by me. It was operated through a license agreement with an entity named Dessert Concepts headed by Britt Swann and Rodrigo Garcia. I had grown increasingly displeased with the quality of food and service offered at the Georgetown location and rather than allow our good name to be tarnished, I made my concerns known. It appears that rather than meet my exacting standards, they chose to close their doors. As for any landlord tenant issues, neither I nor Serendipity 3 had any dealings regarding the space. The lease would presumably have been between the landlord and Dessert Concepts.”

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank recently bought the building as well as a luxurious home nearby. Rumors of a sports clothing store moving into Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW have abounded since. We’ve reached out to the Under Armour team to find out more.

Rare Sweets moving into City Center DC

Meredith Tomason, owner of Rare Sweets (Photo: Washington Post)

RareSweets, a bakery by Meredith Tomason who produces her treats at Union Kitchen and sells them in area stores and coffee shops, is opening a bricks-and-mortar location at CityCenterDC this fall.

Rare Sweets will sell layer cakes, ice creams, cookies, brownies and breakfast hand-pies along with doughnuts. Most of the sweets are based on Tomason’s family recipes or on recipes from one of the many historic cookbooks she has collected over the years.

The shop will have seating for 10 along with patio seating in warm weather. It will join Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, an upscale steakhouse; DBGB Kitchen and Bar, a burger and bistro concept; and Mango Tree from chef Richard Sandoval and a European restaurant group. Famed New York chef David Chaing is negotiating to bring a Momofuku Noodle Bar location to the development as well.

Bayou Bakery to open location on Capitol Hill

Chef David Guas, who will host the Travel Channel show American Grilled starting in July, said he will open another location of his Arlington Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery at the historic Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital at Ninth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue SE this fall.

He historic carriage house at the Hill Center will be the next location for Bayou Bakery. (Photo: Hill Center)

It will be the first retail operation and restaurant to occupy the Carriage House, the two-story 1866 structure that housed the horse-drawn ambulance and medic team commissioned by Abraham Lincoln the year before his death. It was built adjacent to the oldest naval hospital in Washington, D.C. Now, it serves as a thriving arts, culture and education center.

Guas will serve his Southern cuisine including the muff-a-lotta, pressed cubano, GW stoneground grits, BBQ shrimp and red beans and rice. The D.C. menu will expand to include various seafood specials from a fried oyster and shrimp po-boy, known as the Peace Maker, to “chew dats” like baked oysters or thinly-sliced fried catfish and coleslaw.

The 19th-century interior of the Carriage House will retain many of its distinctive original accents such as the ceiling-high stable doors, stall partitions, wooden hay chutes, feed troughs, exposed brick walls and renewed wide-plank wood floors. The existing glass garden room on the eastside will be flooded with an abundance of sunlight through the framed, leaded floor-to-ceiling windows.