The Georgetown Metropolitan

1000 block of Wisconsin Ave.

The Georgetown BID announced yesterday that it was entering into a new year-long arrangement with DDOT to perform routine maintenance of the sidewalks. As CEO Joe Sternlieb explained in the release:

“There are over one million bricks on Georgetown sidewalks, some of which are loose, broken, or missing at any given time. This agreement allows DDOT to use the BID’s staff and ‘eyes on the street’ to quickly identify and fix problems on a daily basis.”

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Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Mama Rouge closed for renovations (although honestly, that’s something a lot of restaurants say when they’re really closing for good.)
• Chaia Tacos now open on Monday. Also: Chaia Tacos now awesome, you should definitely stop by.

3200 block of Grace St.

GM has long tracked the pernicious Dessert Deserts that occasionally appear in Georgetown. These are areas where somebody might have to walk up to a whole two blocks to find a frozen treat or other sweet.

As of about a year ago, they were nearly abolished. But with a steady stream of recent bad news, we’ve lost several pillars of our neighborhood’s defense against healthy teeth.

First, it was the closure of the frozen yogurt shop at 30th and M, which was once an Ice Berry but later rebranded as Little Penguin. That happened a while ago, but it was probably easily missed, what with all the other options. Continue reading →

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• New owner for the Ritz.
• GM missed this deep dive into the West Heating Plant when he was on Christmas break, but it’s worth a read.

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A sign on the front of Ri Ra announced that the restaurant is closed from January 4th through the 13th. It attributes this closure to a “serious liquor license infringement”. It then goes on to profusely apologize and promise that it won’t ever, ever, never, ever do it again.

It doesn’t actual state what the violation was but ABRA records indicate the infraction involved selling alcohol to minors. Granted it is an Irish restaurant, can’t it have authentic Irish drinking laws?

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• What the new owners of the old Latham Hotel have planned.
• GU bans hoverboards.

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