A YouTube Chef Provides a Columbia Heights Restaurant — And Extra Intel

A self-taught chef with tens of millions of YouTube and Instagram followers watching his Southern and Cajun cooking movies, Matt Value (higher referred to as Mr. Make It Occur) is opening his first D.C. restaurant in early February. Fraiche, French for “recent,” will incorporate conventional French, Cajun, South American, and Caribbean cuisines into fashionable dishes and guarantees to ship “upscale eating with out the pretension” in a information launch. Signature dishes embrace Caribbean-style oxtail meatballs, sticky barbecue pork ribs, and a fried snapper smothered in mambo sauce, which have been featured in Value’s cooking movies.

The previous theater area in Columbia Heights will flip right into a inexperienced and gold restaurant in a position to accommodate as much as 110 diners. The restaurant itself shall be divided into three distinct areas: a cocktail lounge, greenery-filled essential eating room, and one other lounge that includes stay leisure and DJ performances. There may even be stay DJ performances throughout weekend brunch service and out of doors seating for the hotter months.

Free bagels at Pops Bagels for Nationwide Bagel Day

The brand new Eckington bagel store is giving out free bagels at this time, January 15, for Nationwide Bagel Day, with the choice to both request a free bagel by itself or order a bagel sandwich and have the price of the bagel discounted. Pops Bagels is open from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on a regular basis. 1625 Eckington Place NE

Beloved sports activities bar Whitlow’s is opening a second location

Whitlow’s, the energetic bar that has hopped between Clarendon and D.C. because it opened in 1946, opens a second location within the Wharf’s Brighton area this March. The Brighton house owners have turned over the 6,000-square-foot area to generational proprietor Jon Williams, with building starting this month on the waterside location. The renovated area will characteristic basic Whitlow’s decor from former places, like classic indicators and sports activities memorabilia. 949 Wharf Road SW

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KNEAD Hospitality Expands to Philly and Virginia Seashore in 2025

For the group’s first location outdoors the regional D.C. market, Knead Hospitality (The Grill, Succotash, Mah-Ze-Dahr, Gatsby) is bringing its upscale Mexican restaurant Mi Vida to Philadelphia’s new East Market growth in mid-2025. The collaboration between the restaurant group and Roberto Santibañez has grown to a few D.C. places since 2018 and also will be prolonged to a fifth location in Virginia Seashore this 12 months, together with The Grill. Each eating places shall be a part of musical artist and Virginia Seashore native Pharrell William’s new Atlantic Park growth.

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Apres ski celebration in Hello-Garden’s Snow Globe

The canned espresso martini firm throws a ski-lodge impressed celebration within the Snowglow Dome pop-up this Saturday, January 18, to advertise its new cinnamon taste. Attendees can take pleasure in espresso martinis, scorching cocktails, and chilly beer whereas being blasted by snow machines and listening to DJs from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Regular tickets are free and VIP tickets to skip the entry line and revel in particular heated areas are $40, each are on Posh. 1309 fifth Road NE

Noodles en path to Southwest

Eater noticed recent signage up for Noodles 54, opening quickly in Southwest’s long-closed Masala Artwork area (1101 4th Road SW). The Vietnamese noodle bar born in Logan Circle makes a speciality of pho soups, banh mi sandwiches, and rice plates. — Tierney Plumb