Wait, There’s More: Restaurant Openings Abound Around City

The Georgetown Piano Bar opens Sept. 12 at 3287 M St., NW, where the nightclub Modern was. Piano player Hunter Lang, former Mr. Smith’s manager Gene McGrath, former Mr. Smith’s employee Morgan Williams and Bill Thoet, vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, are the team behind the sing-along place.

Meanwhile, departing its longtime M Street, Mr. Smith’s has been reborn at 3205 K St., NW, where Chadwick’s once stood for many years. Another manager from Mr. Smith’s, Juan Andino, reopened the place at its new location under the Whitehurst Freeway with new fixtures and decor after auctioning off old Mr. Smith’s classic items.

Look for Orange Anchor, a nautically themed restaurant of seafood rolls and rum drinks by Reese Gardner, is set to open at Washington Harbour “within a couple of months,” according to one of its managers.

Chef Daniel Boulud returns to D.C. to open DBGB Kitchen and Bar, a companion to his bistro of the same name in New York’s East Village (in honor of the Bowery’s now-departed CBGB), is opening next week in D.C.’s newly developed CityCenter at the corner of 9th and H Streets, NW. It is around the block from David Chang’s Momofuku, which will arrive in a few months.

Also opening at CityCenter is Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse. The 18,000-square-foot restaurant at the corner of Ninth and Eye streets, NW.

The elite retail and residential center, spanning blocks around 8th Street and New York Avenue, NW, took the land from the old D.C. convention center and more is redefining and enhancing the streets of downtown D.C.

Even Georgetown’s Baked & Wired will be making the scene at CityCenter — along with such retail top-drawers as Hermès, Longchamp, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry, Hugo Boss and Kate Spade.