Comments on: Huge News For The Park Place Project Going Up Above The Petworth Metro!

By: Golden Silence

Golden Silence — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:28:10 +0000

Are there any updates on The Meeting Place? I can’t find anything online more recent than ‘08.

By: selkycat

selkycat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:12:44 +0000

I second Davey on Bus Boys and Poets as a model. I love how that place attracts all kinds of people you never see together anywhere else in dc.

By: Prince Of Petworth

Prince Of Petworth — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:50:22 +0000

Way to start the New Year positively Phyllis… By the by most the comments in this thread are positive and looking forward to the new restaurant. If you chose to focus on the negative well that’s your choice I suppose. To call the majority of the people small minded and self absorbed is, well, not true. But we can agree to be happy that new restaurant is coming, yeah?

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:33:01 +0000

I’ve been avoiding PoP for a long time now. I find a majority of people weighing in are so small-minded and self absorbed. More than that they are hypocrites. This thread is a glaring example. One person complained that Colorado Kitchen’s pork chop was $17. Yet on other threads great praise to Brightwood Bistro (who’s pork chop is also $17), and Domku ($18 chop). To the guy who claims to have paid $5 for a soda at CK, anyone who has had a soda there knows that is an outright lie.

I was a brunch regular at Colorado Kitchen for years and watched one woman cook for over 100 people every brunch. Did she smile? No. But when I stopped by her window one Sunday to let her know how much I enjoyed my meal she graciously smiled and said, “thank you.”

I’m thrilled she’s coming to my neighborhood. I know she’ll be just as successful on Georgia Ave. as she was on Colorado Ave. You can’t do what this woman does for a living and hate people. There is so much love and care in her food. And you all know I’m right.

By: saf

saf — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:56:20 +0000

Reuben – I appreciate kids not being allowed to run wild. I hate to find myself in a place surrounded by brats. I also think that if you’re going to welcome kids you have to assume they will behave and deal with it when they don’t, not post long lists of rules and treat families with kids as if they were families with brats from the start.

(seriously, I have no kids and don’t like the company of kids. I just think she sent some real mixed messages. The rules list for both kids and adults was simply insulting.)

By: Petworthian

Petworthian — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:19:29 +0000

I’m sorry, but am I the only person who refuses to eat at Hitching Post simply because the place is filthy?

By: reuben

reuben — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:06:22 +0000

I liked the food at Colorado Kitchen-but I also liked the fact that they/she didn’t let kids run all over the place. (Sorry, all you tres lax 21st century parents) My fear with the Takoma Park place is that it will be crowded with everyone’s “perfect, darling ” kids.

By: Prince Of Petworth

Prince Of Petworth — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:03:28 +0000

Hitching Post: http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2007/08/neat-neighborhood-find-the-hitching-post/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:55:39 +0000

Thanks for the Hitchin Post tip, I’ll check it out. I certainly don’t mind mistimed food and other mom-pop traits, if I want impeccable service I’ll go to a country club (after dealing arms to inflate my net worth). But for years I had a bad habit of insisting on giving my money to places that treated me rudely and such. I am recently on a kick of “no more!” If you want to treat me like I shouldn’t be there, then I won’t be. Note, this moment of realization came at a Haydees, FYI.

Also, I believe the CK chef also has a new place opening in Takoma Park (Old Town), Maryland, fyi, in the old Talianos place.

By: GSG

GSG — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:48:17 +0000

I too find the rants against restaurants and bars entertaining. At the end of the day, we’re all entitled to our opinions about our own experiences. I went to Colorado Kitchen twice and received excellent food and service both times. If I had one complaint, it was that the portions could have been bigger. But I never experienced any snippy comments from the chef or from anyone else. So as far as I am concerned, I’m looking forward to the new restaurant and will definitely give it a try. Those of you who had a bad experience at Colorado Kitchen are more than entitled to boycott the new place. More room for me that way.
By the way, if you want good Southern style food in Southern style portions, you should try The Hitchin Post, near the Armed Forces Retirement Home. But please, no b*tchin’ or moanin’ about the slow service and different people at the table getting parts of their meals at different times. That is the price you will pay for patronizing this small mom and pop place. If it’s not your thing, stay away. Like I said, more room for me.