These well built prefabricated restaurants are a genuine slice of Americana from the first half of the last century.

Today’s arrival (nothing easy) all the way from Avoca in up state New York of this authentic prefabricated diner to be known as Capital City Diner is great and should be celebrated here in Washington.

Matt Ashburn and Patrick Carl should be given the keys to the city for what they’re doing.

Instead our local government stands in the way of progress and is once again giving a hard time to people who are improving our city with courage and their own time and private resources.

The Tastee Diner is our only remaining genuine prefabricated diner in the Washington area which is why I wrote about it in detail earlier today.

That’s all, mates.

that being said, i’ve been a home-owner here for nearly 6 years and have never once encountered any problems with my neighbors and people on the street here (jimmy valentine’s has zero police reports to its address in nearly 2 years since opening). simple truth is that where there’s no prey, there are no predators, and i call bullsh*t on whoever commented on “[ducking automatic gunfire]” last time they were in our ‘hood. nobody shot at you “hilltop”, especially next to CVS as you claim (“h and bladensburg”). corner drug dealers trump muggers; dealers won’t allow that kind of crime because of the police attention it draws. of course, now that more businesses are moving here we’ll soon attract the kind of criminals that plague dupont, georgetown, adams morgan, u st., and increasingly on h st…

commentary & rant aside, the diner itself is a bona fide ‘47. it’s deceptively small, it’s way cool, and it actually fits the street/landscape here like it’s been here all along (though honestly it’s currently more like a mirage looking off my back deck after years of nothing but shady used car dealers). matt & patrick are hard-working and honest people pursuing their vision completely out of their own pocket and i’m confident they’ll get the food and menu right. the intense problem-solving you witnessed today is just the tip of the iceburg and they’ve got no safety net in this venture. few people have that kind of fortitude.

best of luck boys, i never thought the day would come when a 20-bag would no longer be the first commodity available walking out my front or back door : )

mark @ jimmy valentine’s lonely hearts club

… and now they’re getting a parking ticket.

Uneffingbelievable.

(Also, I love Twitter.)

All the permitting agencies go out of their way to make it impossible to get permits, impossible to understand why you’re not getting permits, and then to slap you down hard when you get the wrong permit or miss a permit.

They all suck.

Unfuckingbelievable.

(Also, I Twitter.)