Business Ins & Out: Greco, Catbird, Argent, M.M. LaFleur, Ornare

January 16, 2024

In: Fast Casual Greco Opens  The first Greco location in Washington, D.C, opened on Jan. 15 in Georgetown at 1335 Wisconsin Ave. NW. “Owners Demetri Tsolakis and Stefanos Oungrinis are […]

Outlook 2024: Looking Up   

January 10, 2024

Community Groups Comment      Compiled by The Georgetowner editors     The Georgetowner asked top community groups to assess the year ahead. We’ll be asking these and other groups to report in throughout […]

Restaurateur Tony Cibel — 1937 to 2024

January 8, 2024

Restaurateur Tony Cibel — best known in Georgetown for Tony & Joe’s Seafood Place and Nick’s Riverside Grill at Washington Harbour — died Jan. 4 at the age of 86. […]

Business: Coming in 2024


Restaurants and retail shops set to open in Georgetown in 2024 are giving the town a happy new year — things are looking up.  Barnes & Noble  Gone from Georgetown […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed

January 4, 2024

As many have noticed, cannabis “gifting shops” and dispensaries have been scrambling energetically – and often furtively – to set up shop behind Georgetown storefronts, to the delight of marijuana […]

Business Ins & Outs 2023

January 2, 2024

In —  Sara’s Market Resurrected on Q Vivien Tsang and John Michael Kushner, co-owners of Dent Place Market, reopened Sara’s Market at 3008 Q St. NW which closed its doors last […]

Town Topics: Year in Review 2023


What a difference a year makes — even in Georgetown. The top Town Topics of 2023 are quite different from those of 2022 —  except for one. Crime in Washington […]

Retail Therapy for the Gray Days Ahead

December 27, 2023

I don’t shop. I like to say I am looking for visual stimulation. Happily, there are now two new options in Georgetown within a few storefronts of each other with […]

Barnes & Noble Will Return to Georgetown

December 20, 2023

It seems like a Christmas miracle. The wished-for return of bookseller Barnes & Noble was on many residents’ list. Next year, this wish will come true. It will also herald […]

Crime: Terror at Georgetown Synagogue; Organized Retail Theft, Flashmobs

December 18, 2023

Despite the holidays being a time of “peace and joy,” the last few days in or near Georgetown have seen residents, holiday shoppers and visitors witnessing or responding to acts […]