restaurants : Development News

Five local businesses along Georgia Avenue in Park View and Pleasant Plains will display art to brighten up the streetscape and engage residents.

Gin Rummy will be a new lounge from the owners of Little Ricky's, a Cuban restaurant that closed earlier this year.

The ground-floor space of the building at 13th and E has been vacant for a year. Owner/developer Hatem Hatem plans an upscale cafe for the space.

Busboys and Poets will offer coworking facilities at its new Takoma Park restaurant. The Busboys in Takoma Park and Brookland will both open by the end of the year. 

Busboys and Poets owner Andy Shallal is cooking up plans to develop a culinary training center at the newest store in the works, a standalone building in Anacostia.

No building permit yet for this project but the work behind the scenes is ongoing.

The food incubator's racing to open within the next two weeks.

MGM Roast Beef is adding outdoor seating that will hold an additional 40 customers.

Surfside Taco Stand, a window-only offshoot of the popular Glover Park restaurant, will open in mid-September--and stay open.

It will be the local chain's 5th District location and its 7th overall.

Native Foods Cafe, a vegan fast-casual restaurant chain, is opening its first East Coast location at 1150 Connecticut Ave NW.

The cafe will fill a hole in the DC Dept of Employment Services (DOES)'s retail space, and bring more dining options to Ward 7.

The space could become both a training academy for at-risk youth and a public-facing cafe.

We speak with the chef behind one of the first pop-ups to launch at the forthcoming EatsPlace just south of the Petworth metro, and hear from EatsPlace founder Katy Chang on what's left to do before opening day.