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Mayor Bowser has appointed Solana Vander Nat to lead the Office of Nightlife and Culture.

By: National Landing BID The  National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) teamed up with Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) to provide $100,000 in relief funding to 30 businesses as part of their “Love Local” campaign. Funds are allocated evenly across the eligible National Landing establishments to help cover necessary operator-related expenses including rent and employee wages.   “Our small businesses are essential to the vibrancy and vitality of the commun...

All-Day Restaurant The Freshman Brings Fancy Toast and Espresso Cocktails to National Landing This Week Also on the menu: steak frites, affordable wine, and breakfast from morning to evening. Share A mural from DC artist Cita Sadeli inside The Freshman pays homage to the Central American immigrants who make the hospitality industry tick. Photograph by Joseph Tran. All-day cafes have become popular across the region, but restaurateur Nick Freshman thinks a lot of them suffer from an identity ...

Share this article Share this article ARLINGTON, Va., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) has joined forces with the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) to announce a $100,000 relief program called, "Love Local" to address the upending impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This critical localized initiative is designed to provide funding and promotion to help National Landing restaurants and small businesses in need of immediate suppo...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff admitted that teaching is really hard  He is adjusting to his new dual roles of Georgetown law professor and husband to Vice President Kamala Harris  The amount of work that you have to put in and the extra effort, especially during COVID, doing over Zoom, he said of his entertainment law class  Emhoff was partner at DLA Piper before Harris became vice president  He made his comments at an event at Hook Hall in Washington D.C. with Mayor Muriel Bowser to see th...

February 8, 2021 at 3:45pm Planned coffee shop and restaurant The Freshman, at 2011 Crystal Drive in Crystal City, could open in a few months after being in the works for a little over two years. Owner Nick Freshman told ARLnow that he’s looking at opening The Freshman sometime in April or May, though no date is set in stone yet. A limited version of the restaurant had opened as a pop-up in Crystal City Shops in 2019 and all the signs of an impending opening were in place last year, but a pla...

First started in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, the program provides meal kits to those in the local hospitality industry impacted by layoffs, hours reductions, mandatory shutdowns, and capacity restrictions. In addition to its original D.C. location, the program will also now distribute kits from The Freshman, the yet-to-open cafe at 2011 Crystal Drive. “Northwest D.C. is not the easiest place to get to for everyone,” Hook Hall Helps founder Anna Valero, who also owns the bar and ...

A family at Hook Hall Helps. Photograph courtesy of Hook Hall As DC bars and restaurants brace for a ban on indoor dining—and a possible wave of furloughs and closures—grassroots industry relief effort Hook Hall Helps will resume its services. Hook Hall owner Anna Valero will dispense free meals and supply kits from her Park View bar and beer garden to anyone in need on Mondays from 3 to 5 PM (as well as on Christmas Eve). Valero launched Hook Hall Helps in March after having to furlough 7...

D.C. is preparing to join Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in banning all indoor dining. Author: Kolbie Satterfield (WUSA 9) Published: 7:12 PM EST December 20, 2020 Updated: 11:32 PM EST December 20, 2020 WASHINGTON — D.C.will soon join Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in banning all indoor dining. That decision by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was made as the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise. With inc...