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After nearly 8 years in Forest Hills, Jake’s American Grille (5018 Connecticut Avenue) closed its doors for good on Sunday, January 20th. But before doing so, the restaurant invited the community to a weekend wake. Jake’s wake was fun and now we say goodbye! We are so thankful to our wonderful regulars! pic.twitter.com/CD8hKvtCsF — Jake's […]
by Katherine Saltzman Van Ness/Tenleytown Broadcasters Child Development Center The former Johnson’s Garden Center – once home to green and growing things – will be home to growing… children. Broadcasters’ Child Development Center (BCDC) will move its daycare facility from Van Ness to the Johnson’s location in the 4200 Wisconsin Avenue complex owned by American […]
Everyone has been wondering what is coming to the space that Soapstone Market will exit after the end of the month. Wonder no more. Uptown Market is coming sometime in March: Uptown Market is thrilled to bring our neighborhood market concept to Van Ness in spring 2019. You’ll find locally sourced and thoughtfully curated offerings […]
by Katherine Saltzman and Forest Hills Connection Shopping The weekend of December 15th and 16th will be the Ibhana Boutique pop-up’s last of 2018 (and we hope it will return in 2019). It’s holding a 50 percent off blowout sale on both days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 4340 Connecticut. And Olde City […]
Early 2019 is the target for the new ice cream and cake shop from the Little Red Fox team. It will be called “Sugar Fox.” It will look something like this. Sugar Fox will be just down the block from Little Red Fox, which just celebrated five years at 5035 Connecticut Avenue.
The signs on the doors and cash register confirm that it’s so: Soapstone Market’s last day will be December 31st, 2018. Around this time in 2015, we wrote: Our 2013 Van Ness retail survey revealed a hunger for a specialty market and deli selling prepared carry-out meals, and perhaps also employing a butcher for the […]
As of this week, Little Red Fox has been open for business at 5035 Connecticut Avenue for five years. The business has thrived in ways its owners, Matt and Jena Carr, never imagined. When we opened Little Red Fox at the end of 2013, our goal was to bring a little piece of the Portland, […]
Longtime Forest Hills Connection readers know how much our editor Marlene loves to walk, and how much we love local businesses. In 2012, Marlene combined the two into a “shop-local workout,” a guide to walking off Thanksgiving dinner and getting the holiday shopping done at the same time. Since the 2017 update, we’ve lost Terasol […]
Supporting local businesses and makers doesn’t get much easier than this. Van Ness Main Street is bringing more than 15 Made-in-DC vendors to us – for its third annual Van Ness Holiday Pop-Up Shop. They’ll be setting up shop at 4340 Connecticut Avenue on the three weekends after Thanksgiving: November 24th and 25th, December 1st […]
The 2017 Van Ness Holiday Pop-Up Shop expanded the 2016 concept from one weekend to four. The market did so well, Van Ness Main Street will do it again. The four-weekend holiday pop-up event will kick off on Small Business Saturday: November 24th. Vendor applications are due on October 3rd. This year, Ibhana Boutique will […]
