mad props! maybe we’ll see the obama’s at sweet mango!

Wow, POP in the NYTimes. Very impressive, congrats!

I love the light shed on my lil neck of the woods.
The PHO resturant is what im really excited about and the Ruby Tuesday.

Oh my gosh, they really did spell “Capitol Hill” as “Capital Hill” on first reference, and have yet to correct it. Good copyediting, NYT!

i just realized that Gillian Clark’s restuarant is gonna be in the new condo development at the metro…unless this is another error
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Ms. Clark plans to open Georgia Street Meeting House in her working-class neighborhood in Northwest Washington. The menu will be unabashedly Southern, in the style of the late Edna Lewis, with lard pie crusts and whole roast pigs at formal Sunday suppers….

At the neighborhood’s main intersection, the smell of grilling jerk chicken from Sweet Mango drifted over to the construction site that will be home to her Georgia Street Meeting House, a 4,000-square-foot restaurant she hopes to have open by late fall. Condos are being built on the top floors of the development, which will also house a new Metro entrance.

God… down in Bloomingdale we’d be happy just to have a Subway open up…

Yeah I hate it when the NYTimes writes about DC, their articles are always full of errors. (makes you wonder about the other articles you read whose topics you don’t know as much about). And I love how Gillian Clark calls H street a post-racial Georgetown, WTF?

But still, very exciting.

And Ann Cashion lives in Mt Pleasant, not Columbia Heights

Re: Anonymous (9:29am)

How often do new places open on Mt. P street? I love that I live in Mt. Pleasant, but I wish the businesses that seek to occupy it would face less hurdles in the form of “voluntary” agreements and such.

The opposition you see to Laurie Collins (a cleveland park resident) on the MTP Forum is only a fraction of what exists. seeing as how. SHE RUNS THE FORUM!!! corrupt indeed. she boots a lot of people. also deletes comments.

Maybe also worth noting – maybe PoP or someone else can verify. Rock, formerly the winner of Hell’s Kitchen TV show, has some kind of hand in Next Door (next to Ben’s). My buddy is a friend of the family and went to a soft openning there and met Rock. Either he’s the chef there or he’s just a consultant, but either way it’s cool that DC is attracting up and coming culinary talent.

apologies… I hadn’t had my morning cup of coffee when I wrote that comment.

Bryan: Rock from Hell’s Kitchen is the chef at Ben’s Next Door.

BTW. Wtf is ‘post-racial’?

Bryan and U Street Girl: I went to the soft opening at next door, and the front house manager seemed to think that the chef wouldn’t be staying too long at the restaurant. I guess that makes sense, now that I know he is famous. He made the most well-prepared scallops I’ve ever had, for what its worth.

Interesting K North of U, when I went there for the soft opening a few weeks ago I didn’t hear that. But I wasn’t exactly psyched he had come on board anyway, so we’ll see I guess.

Interesting that rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods are classified as the “real” DC… clearly that article was talking about Washington, not the District of Columbia…. or perhaps the overlooking of the other three quadrants in DC (save airy mention) was more poor reporting/editing on the NYT’s part…

And JM–some Bloomingdale residents are thrilled to be without Subways, Targets, and Starbucks, thank you very much!