Baked and Wired by James Calder.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Return of Healy Pub off the drawing board.
- One of the hazards in endorsing a candidate so far away from the election, is that they drop out the next day.
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Not So Long Ago: M St. and 33rd St.
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This week on Not So Long Ago, GM stops by M St. and 33rd St.
These days, this block contains Pizzeria Paradiso and will soon host Pinkberry. In the background is Thomas Moser on the next block.
In 1993, half the space currently used by Pizzeria Paradiso was occupied by a Mexican restaurant. GM’s not sure of the name since the tree blocks the sign. It could be Posadas Grill maybe?
Next to the Mexican restaurant was Candela’s a northern Italian restaurant. While GM can say for certain what the name is–unlike with the Mexican restaurant–GM can nonetheless not tell you anything else about Candela’s.
Next over was El Caribe Restaurant, which GM is going to assume was a Spanish Caribbean restaurant.
GM can’t remember what was in Pizzeria Paradiso’s space before they moved in (they moved in sometime around 2003, if memory serves right). Next door, Sangaree was open until the last year or so.
You can’t tell from this photo, but where Thomas Moser is, there was a fast food restaurant called Tasty Chicken. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Ehpien.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The center of Georgetown is N St. and Potomac, according to Google.
- The Halloween shooting is now a homicide. Georgetown’s second of the year, after five years without one.
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Mike Isabella to Revamp Hook as Mexican Restaurant
Photo by aliciagriffin.
Several news outlets reported yesterday that star of Top Chef and owner of the new downtown Italian restaurant Graffiato, Mike Isabella, is going to take over Jonathan Umbel’s Hook. The Post explains:
The fire that destroyed Hook in Georgetown in June gave owner Jonathan Umbel some time to think about how to restructure his upscale seafood establishment in a down economy, and he came up with what sounds like a fail-safe — if about-face — plan: “I’m converting Hook into a modern Mexican restaurant,” he announced today, and installing “a local chef who’s really hot right now:” Mike Isabella , the former Top Chef contestant and the visionary behind Graffiato in Chinatown.
The small-plates concept will be called Bandolero, and Umbel’s hope is to have the 5,000-square foot space open as early as February.
Isabella is the real deal (and a top contender on what GM thinks was the best season of Top Chef). And it’s a real catch for Georgetown to be the location of his next venture. But there’s a bit of a let down behind this. Continue reading
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Photo by Jim Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Oak Hill Cemetery’s role in Lincoln’s private grief.
- Tombs serving secondhand meat?
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Dumbarton Oaks Doesn’t Open Till 2:00
Dumbarton Oaks gardens and museum don’t open until 2:00 pm (and not at all on Monday). This is evident right on their website, and this information is probably listed in most tour guide books. Yet despite the fact that this information is readily available, almost every time GM passes Dumbarton Oaks on Saturday or Sunday mornings, there’s a group of visitors standing by the gate with a “well-what-the-Hell-are-we-supposed-to-do-now?” look on their faces.
So GM is just hoping that by putting this information out there into the SEO biosphere, a few more people will get the message and wait until 2:00 to show up on R St. Continue reading
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Legoland’s Georgetown by Orlando Bob.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Carol Joynt celebrates the tenth anniversary of Q & A Cafe with an interview with Jack Abramoff.
- The city settled for only $6 million with the construction company that caused the Georgetown Library fire in 2009. It initially sought $13 million and the total cost to rebuild the library was $23 million.
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