Get to know Flavor Garden and its founder: Her restaurant specializes in “fun food” such as funnel cakes. She created many of her seasoning blends to coax her mother to eat during chemotherapy. And Flavor Garden (at 4400 Connecticut Avenue) is Deirdre Holliday-White’s first full-service restaurant. Read more about Holliday-White’s background, her business and its challenges in the AFRO’s July 14th “Spotlight on Black excellence” feature.
“Best of Sugar Fox” at the former Sugar Fox location: A Popville reader wrote in with a tip about Honey’s (AKA Honey Bee Goods, AKA Bee Goods), a shop selling ice cream and baked goods at 5027 Connecticut. “Despite no proper business signage, they are now replicating the best parts of Sugar Fox [which closed last December along with sister restaurant Little Red Fox] – they had the amazing Peach Pie Ice Cream in their rotation.” The tipster also reported seeing some Little Red Fox faves – including the bakery-cafe’s former staffers on the Honey’s staff. According to Honey’s Instagram account, its summer hours are 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Simply the best: InsideHook.com declares DC the best bookstore city in the U.S. And one of the reasons for that: the Politics and Prose flagship store at 5015 Connecticut (which it places in Chevy Chase though it is clearly a Forest Hills business. Ahem.) Looking a good summer read? WTOP (which is also confused about P&P’s place in Forest Hills) asked the store’s staff for their recommendations.
For a limited time: Calvert Woodley is celebrating its 41st anniversary with daily giveaways starting July 22nd. Sign up for one of I’m Eddie Cano’s pasta-making classes, held Saturdays in July and August. Rosemary Bistro Cafe will be the venue for Washington Photo Safari’s next food photography class on July 23rd. And Flavor Garden is participating in Greater Washington Black Restaurant Week through July 30th.
Also, the deadline to enter Gopuff and Van Ness Main Street’s design competition has been extended through July 31st. Three winners will get free Gopuff memberships and rewards, plus the supplies needed to create art for the blank windows at 4221 Connecticut Avenue. The winning pieces are to be unveiled during Art All Night on September 29th.
Summer is for sun and sand… at the playground: The sandbox at Forest Hills Park has been sand-less for quite some time. And after Friends of Forest Hills Playground became a special program of Van Ness Main Street last year, the Main Street took up the task of asking the Department of Parks and Recreation to do something about that. Getting no response, VNMS is now turning to a park improvement method used by generations of families: a do-it-yourself project. Fundraising is now under way.
(Disclosure: Forest Hills Connection is also a program of Van Ness Main Street. We maintain our editorial independence.)
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