Langdon brewpub The Public Option is reopening after a long pandemic-related closure. Owner Bill Perry has tapped The Pug s Tony Tomelden as a managing partner.
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In a move that startled the D.C. hospitality industry, Mayor
Muriel Bowser announced on May 10 that restaurants and bars could dramatically increase their seating capacities starting this Friday.
The new mayor’s order, issued today, makes some tweaks. Starting on May 21 at 5 a.m., both restaurants and taverns/bars can fully reopen at 100 percent capacity. Restrictions tied to social distancing such as spacing tables out six feet apart, early closing times, and forbidding patrons from sitting at staffed bars will be lifted. Nightclubs, cigar bars, and hookah bars can jump from 25 to 50 percent capacity on May 21 and later to 100 per
She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. Ben Terris It’s a Wednesday evening in April, and the ambiance at Old Ebbitt Grill, the historic tourist trap steps from the White House, feels familiar, if not exactly normal. The restaurant is operating at 25 percent capacity, per D.C’s covid-19 guidelines. A family with two young boys work their way through a mountain of french fries, waiters in black masks bring martinis to tables separated by transparent dividers, and a new political power couple tucks quietly into a back booth. Symone Sanders, 31, senior adviser to Vice President Harris, has just come from work, wearing a camel-hair-colored shawl, her long, rainbow fingernails tapping on her phone.
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Sandlot Georgetown, a big outdoor food, drink, and entertainment venue highlighting Black-owned businesses, opens May 6. Photograph courtesy of Sandlot Georgetown
Sandlot Southeast, a huge outdoor culture and entertainment space and food/drink garden showcasing Black-owned businesses, will open a second DC location in Georgetown on May 6. Sandlot Georgetown takes over the site of a demolished gas station, and will offer 240 outdoor seats, weekly live entertainment recently permitted by DC’s revised Covid regulations and a rotating cast of food and drink vendors.
Shipping containers act as portable bars and food destinations at Sandlot Southeast. Photograph by George Tarrant GT Studios