Comments on: Crepes Scuttlebutt No Longer Scuttlebutt – Two Crepes Spots Coming to 14th Street near S!

By: roganista

roganista — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:15:45 +0000

Does anyone know more info on the Point Chaud guys? Vincent (Crepes on the Corner) backed out of catering my holiday party last minute. I think it would be GREAT to get the P-C guys to do it in his stead.

By: Ray Swore

Ray Swore — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:49:18 +0000

woops, my point was that if the owner is just the investor and depending on a chef to breathe life into a place, it’s just bound to never get very deeps roots or build character — chef will move on b/c he/she doesn’t have power to really make the entirely their own, and the investor will turn it for a profit b/c its not their labor of love (as much as they may love owning it.)

By: Ray Swore

Ray Swore — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:23:27 +0000

Dre is right, thiis neighborhood will be Hill and law school trash in a decade. Its what we get for having such a tiny geographic area and a huge educated job market.

side note: I can’t believe they have a chef for this place. What a joke. Any teenager can be taught to make a good cup of coffee, and any short order cook can put prepared fillings in a crepe. Crepe joints have dynamic menus by nature, and the abundance of shops in the US and abroad leaves no lack of inspiration. The reason neighborhoods gentrify (and ultra gentrify) so quick, is that people don’t establish businesses w/ a long term outlook (hence, two designer crepe places on the same block. There aren’t neighborhood institutions to give the area real character, which has the effect of making potential residents realize that they aren’t buying into a vacuum (they have to weigh if they measure up to and will contribute to the neighborhood.

More and more I’m thinking that gentrified urban neighborhood are just the new shopping malls.

By: Neener

Neener — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:42:54 +0000

Yes, but one of those friends of mine sold his company for roughly $7 million and lives in Italy.

By: Petworth Newbie

Petworth Newbie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:21:45 +0000

Wonder if these crepes will be better than Napoleon and La Forchette? I’m betting Crepes on the Corner does better because crepes=French breakfast food=dining al fresco=the nice outdoor space will clinch it.

By: CH Resident

CH Resident — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:52 +0000

Now that 3 dollar sushi probably costs 30 dollars and the burrito about 14.

By: Neener

Neener — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:03:51 +0000

Doesn’t anybody cook at home anymore? I mean, once every storefront on 14th St. and U Street is a bar or restaurant, can’t we just convert our kitchens into giant wine cellars?
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When I used to visit Manhattan in the 1980s I had many friends who wouldn’t cook at home. Food in NYC was dirt cheap, we used to buy like $3 sushi and $4 burritos back then. Also you really didn’t want to store food in certain apartments because the rats would come up from the basement, so it was safer not to.

By: Bitter Elitist

Bitter Elitist — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:54:10 +0000

I will demand that they have Blueberry compote. Yeah, DEMAND.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:31:16 +0000

crepes are trendy?

i think its just that crepes have been mainly missing from dc.
elsewhere, they just are. even fast food chain crepe places exist. its not like crepe places are a new idea, whereas cupcake bakeries were a new idea.

dre, please be not the prophet of doom.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:22:28 +0000

@Monkey, QS&L is celebrating its 35th Anniversary this year! (I’m drinking out of a 35th Birthday pint glass as I type this…)