Renovated Safeway Opens With Party, Cheerleaders         

September 18, 2023

There is nothing like going to your regular grocery store that you’ve shopped at for decades and finding balloons, cameras, VIP speakers, performing members of the Washington Commanders cheerleading team, cake, […]

Business Ins & Outs: Ike Behar; Blank Street Coffee, Baker’s Daughter


In: Blank Street Coffee On Prospect St. Blank Street Coffee at 3241 Prospect St. NW — next door to Van Leeuven Ice Cream — opened on Sept. 16. “With a limited, quality […]

Martin’s Tavern: Cheers to 90 Years   

September 11, 2023

When someone or something marks 90 years, you take notice. When this 90-year-old place is full of history and legends, you know there are stories to be told. When this […]

Business Ins & Outs: Alo, Diptyque, Pasha Castle; Filomena at 40

May 30, 2023

In: Alo Yoga to Open June 9 The popular yoga clothing and accessory company Alo has taken over the prime Georgetown retail space previously occupied by Banana Republic at the […]

Georgetown’s Unique and Tranquil Chinese Tea House Closes

January 30, 2023

The minute you closed the door at Ching Ching Cha, the Chinese tea house and shop, near the C&O Canal at 1063 Wisconsin Ave. NW, leaving behind the noisy cars […]

Business Ins & Outs: Pressed; Laveda Lash & Brow

July 11, 2022

In: Pressed, ‘Plant-Forward’ The shiny juice joint at 1300 Wisconsin Ave. NW in the former space of the Papyrus card store opened July 8 to lines waiting out the door. […]

Business Ins & Outs: Buck Mason, Michael Kors, Fluevog

April 7, 2022

In: Buck Mason, California Fresh The straightforward men’s wear and women’s wear store, Buck Mason — founded in 2013 by Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen Ford in Los Angeles — […]