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Image: Pre-pandemic pasta photo. Last Updated: July 2023 Overview: By now, people have gotten past the playful name. I’m Eddie Cano established itself as a good option for Italian in a neighborhood that has had a slowly rising tide of good options added over the last few years. The name (meant to be a […]
Read MoreLast Updated: 5/21/2020 Current Status: With its focus on Italian comfort food like pasta and pizza, it was already menu-ready for this moment. They have expanded the patio and re-opened for sit-down service. It is also open for take-out and delivery – combined with neighboring restaurant Nama. Wine, drinks and other alcohol options available. They […]
Read MoreLast Updated: 9/27/20 Current Status: Closed for Good. No Take-out or Delivery currently. They are doing a market selling food products, meal kits, cleanings supplies, pantry staples and alcohol. Gift Cards – redeemable at all Mindful Group restaurants: Acqua al 2 Ari’s Diner Denson Harold Black Ghibellina/Sotto La Puerta Verde Dock FC Employee Relief Fund […]
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Image: Fede Galizia, “A Still Life of a Porcelain Bowl of Grapes on a Stone Ledge with a Medlar, Quinces, a Pomegranate and a Wasp” For our Saturday art post this week we again turn to Italy and find another woman painter doing still lifes of extraordinary detail. But before we get to the painting, […]
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Image: Giovanna Garzoni, “Cherries on a Plate, Broad Beans, and Bumblebee” (ca. 1665) On Saturdays we divert our attention from writing about the D.C. dining world to focus on art. For the last few weeks we’ve suspended writing about restaurants other than to keep two lists updates. The first list is ways to help employees […]
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Image: Bombolotti with winter greens pesto. Last Updated: 5/15/22 Current Status: Union Square Hospitality has pulled the plug. Closure date June 5, 2022. D-Day minus one. Before Times Review: Last Visit: February 2020 Maialino Mare is an offshoot of Danny Meyer’s Maialino in New York City. Meyer is the insanely successful restaurateur who gave the […]
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Image: Guanciale over Bucatini Last Updated: October 2025 NOTE: Reveler’s Hour is morphing, perhaps moulting, as it moves past the original team. Wine Director Bill Jensen remains as owner, but Jill Tyler and Jon Sybert who co-owned are stepping aside (as they also wind down Tail Up Goat). Jensen has brought in a new team […]
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Image: Cassette case repurposed to deliver the bill. Probably originally for Foreigner 4. Current Status: ABC Pony has closed. House Accounts/Gift Card Before Times Review: First Visit: February 2020 ABC Pony is the latest project from Erik Bruner-Yang of Maketto fame. It holds up the corner of a new apartment building in a rapidly developing […]
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