Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
by Katherine Saltzman and Forest Hills Connection Comings and goings in Tenleytown The Tenleytown Best Buy was once a Sears. The long-gone Hechinger home improvement chain moved in next. And before Best Buy signed the lease in the early 2000s, the Washington Post says the building’s owners considered a “car dealership, a data center, a […]
Great pasta for less: The Washington Post lists Tesoro (4400 Connecticut) among four DC-area restaurants where Italian food won’t break the bank. It notes the “charms of chef-owner Ignazio Bonanni’s recipes” and says Tesoro’s Mediterranean fettuccine is “an absurd bargain at $18.50.” Tesoro, by the way, is Italian for treasure. Amore o odio? Speaking of […]
Restaurant opening dates are fluid! The latest is Tuesday, October 2nd. I’m Eddie Cano has been posting updates on its Kickstarter page. by Katherine Saltzman The owners of I’m Eddie Cano, a new restaurant featuring American-Italian food as well as traditional, mainland Italian cuisine, expect to open on September 27th in the former Banana Leaf […]
by Katherine Saltzman Van Ness/Forest Hills Kickstarting a new restaurant The owners of a new Italian restaurant moving into the Banana Leaf space at 5014 Connecticut are introducing themselves – and the eatery – via Kickstarter campaign. “I’m Eddie Cano” is a play on the Italian pronunciation of Americano, and the brainchild of Massimo and […]
by Marlene Berlin We’ve touched on Initiative 77 before but want to discuss its proposed tipped wage increase in a little more detail. And Little Red Fox’s newsletter this week provided an opening. Little Red Fox explains its tipping policy: At Little Red Fox, we don’t have a waitstaff and we pay all of our […]
When we founded Forest Hills Connection six years ago, only two neighborhood restaurants offered a weekend brunch, which we’ll (generally) define as a sit-down meal and the option of an adult beverage such as a mimosa: Terasol and Jake’s American Grille. Terasol is now closed, sadly. But Jake’s is still serving brunch – and it […]
by Stephen Samuels and Joanna Pratt Our community lost a jewel with the closing of Terasol on New Year’s Day. But rather than mourn our loss, we would prefer to celebrate the joy that owners Alan Moin and Sabrina Ousmaal brought to our neighborhood over the past seven years. Our first experience at Terasol was […]
(Read Neighborhood in the News, Part 1) You are so accomplished. Our occasional roundup can’t keep up. But darn it, you’re making us proud. Without further ado, here’s Neighborhood in the News, part deux: Teaching teens to use their voice: Nearly 50 years ago, then-teenage Mary Beth Tinker took her Vietnam War protest all the […]
Only a week ago we were reminiscing about some of the shops and restaurants that used to be here; some long gone (like Hot Shoppes), others more recently departed (such as Marvelous Market). We have since learned that Banana Leaf, the Sri Lankan restaurant that moved into the former Clover Market space at 5014 Connecticut […]
The holidays mean specials and reduced hours at some local businesses. Here’s a compilation. (And if you have details and updates on more, please contact us at info@foresthillsconnection.com.) Sfoglina has special Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve menus. See sfoglinadc.com/menus and select “Holidays.” Little Red Fox has special holiday menu beginning at 3 p.m. December […]
