In just six months we’ve had record-breaking snow storms, record-breaking heat waves, and an earthquake in DC…although I slept through the quake and still think the garbage trucks on my street rumble more than that. Imagine if this was also a year of the 17-year cicadas! So what are we going to get next? I’d rather not find out and instead get a little break from this humidity. At least the lightening storms have been beautiful and are bringing some much-needed water to our gardens and parks.
- Ashley from We Love DC wrote about her love for Market Lunch.
- Tom Sietsema gave Acqua al 2 a very good first bite review.
- City Paper’s Housing Complex reported on Ward 6 GOP candidate Jim DeMartino taking Tommy Wells to task for not doing enough for the trees.
- Roll Call visited the Biergarten Haus (full article text at H Street Great Street)
- Young & Hungry took a look at the many milkshake options around the city, including the best options at Ted’s and Good Stuff.
- All We Can Eat attended the mouthwatering mussel throw down at Belga Cafe on Saturday.
- JDLand got a walk through with CSX and provides the very few updates that they shared.

speaking of italian….curious to know what’s up with the old locanda space. first the trash bags came down and then i saw lights on in the space.