You’ve had a lot of questions, and we now have answers about the long-delayed debut of MOM’s Organic Market at 4250 Connecticut Avenue, a UDC-owned office and retail building. In […]
Business in Brief: Dog Haus and The Whale Tea in Van Ness; UDC Chick-fil-A targets fall opening; Sriracha shortage hits home
Two small but growing chains have found homes on Connecticut Avenue in Van Ness. Dog Haus, a hot dog and burger restaurant and bar, is leasing the space at 4340 […]
Business in Brief: A check on incoming (and possibly incoming) Van Ness businesses; AllCare opens; Gopuff Van Ness holds art contest
Progress report on UDC’s incoming retail tenants: While checking out the May 6th “Around the World” embassy events at the UDC Student Center, we checked on the buildout of the […]
Chevy Chase’s American City Diner: A brief history, what’s next, and one family’s fond memories
by Marlene Berlin In 1988, Jeffrey Gildenhorn opened a 1940s-style diner at Connecticut Avenue and Morrison Street. For 30 years, the retro American City Diner served up regular diner fare: […]
Business in Brief: Bread Furst II; American City Diner’s next act; “Save the Walking Lane”
This is not the briefest of “Business in Brief” updates, but there’s a lot going on! Baguettes times deux: On April 11th, we spotted a Bread Furst tweet with this […]
Business in Brief: Little Red Fox cookbook; Hillwood perfume; Uptown Theater revival effort
Kickstart a comic (cook)book: Mourning the loss of Little Red Fox? Three months after the Forest Hills bakery and cafe closed, LRF founders and comic book enthusiasts Matt and Jena […]
Restaurants of Van Ness/Forest Hills: A list
Ten years ago, a neighbor went for a walk. He got some exercise. And Forest Hills Connection got our first local restaurant listings. In 2013, Connection contributor David Bardin created the […]
Business in Brief: Call Your Mother opens in Forest Hills, Days Inn is renovating, 100 years of the Avalon
At 7 a.m. last Friday, a new Call Your Mother deli opened at 5035 Connecticut Avenue. On Saturday, the crowds descended. Customers were not waiting long. An employee periodically came […]
Business in Brief: Laid-off Burger King workers got no warning; Bagels galore; MOM’s Van Ness “Coming 2023”
Little Red Fox and Burger King are gone. And their departures are a study in contrasts. The owners of Little Red Fox and Sugar Fox announced their intentions several days before […]
The Van Ness Burger King is really and truly gone. And at Call Your Mother’s new Forest Hills location, there’s one question customers shouldn’t ask.
Okay, we believe it now. Like a cat with nine lives, the Burger King at 4422 Connecticut Avenue has endured through threat after threat of closure, two of those from […]