I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little antsy about the fast approach of September. This time of year generally has me thinking it’s time to buy some notebooks, a new lunchbox and back to school clothes. Well, there’s no need to consult Seventeen anymore, but the “new school year” is a good […]
What can $20.09 or $35.09 buy you this week? Quite a bit of tastiness at Belga Cafe. Here’s their menu for DC Restaurant Week, which runs through Sunday. Dinner Menu $35.09 Starters Salad of yellow, red and candied roast beets with warm goat cheese, baby frisée, garlic croutons and pickled red onions or Grandmother’s chicken […]
With the reopening of Eastern Market, it seems only right to look at the pre-history of what is again the center of our neighborhood. Long before Cluss built his masterpiece, there was another market, one which L’Enfant had planned into his earliest drawings of Washington DC: Eastern Branch Market. In 1791, it made sense to […]
Summer is winding down, the beaches are slowly emptying and city pools will be closing soon. Time for back to school shopping … new shoes, new pencils, new condo? The sparkling 2 bedroom/2 bath condo in Southeast pictured here has its first open house this weekend. Perhaps it isn’t too late to squeeze in one […]
Moving to DC from the West Coast, I found it a nice surprise to know that there was a Safeway supermarket in our neighborhood. After all, Safeway, I reasoned, is a West Coast kind of thing, right? It would be just like grocery shopping back home, in a store with familiar brands and labels and […]