3200 block of N St.
ANC Preview: Gypsy Sally’s Edition
Next week, the ANC will meet for it’s November session. And one item jumps way out from the rest: a new music venue called Gypsy Sally’s.
According to the liquor license application, the venue will be on the second floor of 3401 K St. That’s the address of the future Malmaison (and once Hibiscus Cafe). It will be a “restaurant with a seating capacity of 224 seats, [with a] total occupancy load of 284. Requesting an entertainment endorsement featuring live acoustic music with cover charge. No nude performances.”
(GM doesn’t know for sure, but the somewhat un-PC name probably comes the song Tecumseh Valley by Townes Van Zandt)
If any new live music venues has any chance of getting through the approval process, picking a location like this is probably the best first step. There’s no immediate residential neighbor. However, there is a condo building a couple doors down. And during the approval process of Malmaison there were concerns expressed over the noise of people coming and going from the new restaurant. Additionally, another point of contention was the number of reimbursable detail MPD cops the restaurant would hire.
If approved, this of course would not be the first music venue along K St. From 1953 to 1998, the Bayou stood at 31st and K. Will Gypsy Sally’s live up to that reputation? We’ll see. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jim Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Annie Creamcheese space won’t be empty long: vintage clothing store Buffalo Exchange will move in.
- Mie n Yu already getting denuded.
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Bowling Coming to Georgetown?
Last Friday, Martin Austermuhle of DCist had a major scoop about Vornado’s plans for the Georgetown Park mall: the developer was planning on bringing in a bowling alley.
Austermuhle wrote:
The plans envision a restaurant on the mall’s first level—fronting Wisconsin Avenue—that seats 100, the 12 bowling lanes and three bocce courts. A second floor would include banquet rooms and two more bocce courts. Each game at Pinstripes’ other locations cost $5 not including the $4 for shoes, while entrees range from $17 to $27.
Intimating that the plans might be controversial, he also noted Vornado’s preemptive strategy:
Seemingly prepared for some pushback from local residents, the proposal tries to downplay the bowling element, saying that only 20 percent of the restaurant’s square footage will be dedicated to the sport and that less than five percent of its clientele are expected to partake. “The primary focus of the establishment will be on its food,” says the proposal, which cites menu items such as filet mignon, maple glazed salmon jumbo lump crab cake and “other fine-dining items.” Continue reading
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Photo by citronsmurf.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- New Italian seafood restaurant for the Washington Harbour (GM can’t tell from the map, is it replacing Sequoia?)
- GM still doesn’t understand how a business can survive only offering to dry your hair. Well Georgetown will find out soon.
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Before it Was a Board, it Was a Brew
Courtesy of The Beer Can Guide.
Whenever you hear the phrase “Old Georgetown”, it’s often followed by the word board. But in the middle part of the last century, the phrase was used to describe a much more enjoyable item: beer.
The shores of the Potomac just south of Georgetown once housed DC’s greatest brewery: the Christian Heurich Brewery. Started by its namesake, a German who immigrated here in 1866, it was built in 1894. Huerich ran the brewery both before and after Prohibition, gaining a reputation as the best beer in town. He passed away on the job at the age of 102 in 1942.
The brewery produced a series of different beers, mostly under the Senate Beer logo. But in 1950, the brewery introduced the new Old Georgetown label. It wasn’t until later in the year that Congress passed the Old Georgetown Act, which established the strong historical protections for the neighborhood’s architecture. Both were probably inspired in anticipation of the 1951 centennial of the neighborhood (the “Old Georgetown” signs at M and Pennsylvania that you see in GM’s header were also erected around then). Continue reading
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Photo by laurabl.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Some sad Nats fans (or maybe happy Cards fans) rode a Bikeshare home from game 5.
- Speaking of alternative transportation to the stadium, check out this nice article on the water taxi (GM’s ridden it home several times; it’s the best way to travel).
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It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s Georgetown
Photo by Shreyans Bhansali.
As reported first by the Patch, a new men’s “haberdashery” called H.L. Poling is planning on moving into the corner of 34th and Prospect, where Govinda Gallery used to be.
Georgetown has long had dozens of clothing shops primary, if not exclusively, targeting women. But in recent years an increasing number of shops have opened up that either primarily target men, or built their reputation on providing menswear, not womenswear.
Since 2008, we’ve seen the addition of:
- Vinyard Vines
- Brooks Brothers
- Barbour
- The Streets of Georgetown
- Jack Spade
- Gant (soon to open)
- Hugh and Crye (no storefront, but based in Georgetown)
- Rag & Bone
- Allsaints Spitalfields Continue reading
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