The Georgetown Metropolitan

2900 block of R St.

This friday at Sequoia restaurant, Hyde-Addison elementary is having their annual auction to raise money for the school. It’s a great cause and a lot of fun. Here are some of the things you could win:

• a week stay in Valencia Spain
• four tickets to the New York Giants
• a behind the scene tour at NPR
• Chesapeake Bay cruise
• tour of the Washington Post
• a “staycation” at the fancy Capella hotel
• a many, many (many) more

Tickets at $50 if you buy advance ($75 at the door). It starts at 7:30. So come on out and support your fantastic local school!

Photo by Jacquesofalltrades.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• An even deeper dive in to the ricin-making GU student’s background. Basically, it’s Quizbowl’s fault.
• Apparently people eat fiddleheads, and you can do so at 1789.

3200 block of P St.

Here’s more of a data dump than an article: All the stores that opened and closed last year (i.e. Feb. 2013-Feb 2014)

Opened:

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Student held in jail in ricin incident.
• Halcyon House as tech incubator?

1600 block of Wisconsin Ave.

GM summarized his findings from his annual State of Georgetown survey yesterday, and today he’s focusing in on restaurants.

Above you can see a chart of the distribution of classifications of Georgetown food establishments. Sweets remains the king category in Georgetown. While we lost a couple last year when the two Ice Berry frozen yogurt shops closed, we gained a couple with Sweet Frog and Olivia Macaron. The generic “American” category not surprisingly leads the true restaurant group, with 15 establishments. French is the most prevalent ethnic cuisine in Georgetown, although Italian would lead if GM didn’t count pizza restaurants separately from Italian.

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Flood plain map’s change may affect Georgetown property holders.
• Despite its reputation, Georgetown isn’t even in the top five richest neighborhoods in DC.

1600 32nd St.