Entries Tagged as 'restaurants'
Facebook? Been there. Twitter? Check. Foursquare? Um, what’s that again? For those of you who aren’t familiar (no, not you, those other non-tech savvy people among us) Foursquare is a location based social networking app. Basically you can check in and see where your friends and people nearby are. You earn points for checking in, [...]
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Tags: Barracks Row·bars·Eastern Market·H Street·restaurants
Valentine’s Day is the pits! Sure for those people who are aged 13 to about 30 and in a new relationship Valentine’s Day is the most glorious, romantic day of the year, but for the rest of us—singletons, long-been marrieds and (the dreaded) married with kids—we know better. For the rest of us, Valentine’s Day [...]
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Tags: Barracks Row·Capitol Hill·H Street·restaurants·Valentine's Day
Guest post by Jay Williams Sometimes you have a day where, by the time you get home from work, you’re done — no energy to cook, but you don’t really feel like going out. These are the nights you want to sit on the couch with some bad TV (my wife’s current favorite is Dance [...]
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Tags: restaurants
Based on the posts that elicit the most passionate comments, we know for sure there’s a significant foodie population out there on the Hill. So it stands to reason that some of you have dreams of perhaps having a little café or coffee shop of your own. Think Local First wants to help you realize [...]
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Tags: business·Events·New Business·restaurants
Picture this: You’re walking down that wide, tree-lined boulevard we call Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s spring, and you see children walk by in strollers and dogs and their owners briskly sauntering by. The sun starts to set dramatically over the Capitol. In the air, the unmistakeable scent of apple blossoms mingles with Moroccan lentils, or perhaps [...]
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Tags: beer·bistro·delicious·Pound·restaurants·wine bar
You know that one dish you love to order at your favorite Hill restaurant? The one you wish you could make at home? You may just have the chance to pick up that coveted recipe on Sunday, January 29 on 8th Street SE when ten Barracks Row chefs participate in an all-day Culinary Education Crawl. From 9:30 [...]
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Tags: Barracks Row·classes·cooking·culinary·Food·restaurants
If you haven’t gotten your fill of indulgent eating from the recent holidays you are in luck. The winter edition of DC Restaurant Week began yesterday — Monday, January 9th — and runs through Sunday, January 15th. (A second DC Restaurant Week is held each year in August.) Each year tens of restaurants and bars [...]
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Tags: 2012·Hill·restaurant week·restaurants·specials
Newsflash! New Year’s Eve is this weekend. That, coupled with what is arguably one of the slowest weeks in Washington (second only to the August mass exodus, perhaps?) makes this week’s To Do list all about the last night of the year. So, do you love it? Hate it? Is it just another (Saturday) night? [...]
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Tags: bars·FUN·restaurants
What an eventful year on Capitol Hill – and I’m not even talking about the warped and wishy-washy politics that went on in the big white domed building. We here at The Hill Is Home attempted to bring you timely coverage of our neighborhood politics, cultural events, developing stories and (probably more than anything else) [...]
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Tags: 2011·2012·bars·dining·drinking·In the Rearview·restaurants
It was almost a year ago to the day that The Hill is Home sat down to its first taste of Ba Bay’s savory Bok Choy while sipping at a frothy Saigon Mule. But, the Vietnamese-style restaurant has abruptly closed its doors, according to reports from The Washington Post. In an email statement to the Post, [...]
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Tags: Ba Bay·Barracks Row·Capitol Hill·Eastern Market·restaurants·Vietnamese Restaurant
