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Washington Post
4 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
The last wholesalers of Union Market
Two different signs tell visitors they've arrived at Northeast Washington's Union Market. One is new and sits atop a renovated warehouse off Fifth Street. Inside, there's a thriving food hall with more than 40 vendors, selling Cuban sandwiches for $17 and South Indian dosas for $15. The other is decaying and missing letters. It stands above a row of nearly century-old buildings a block away on Fourth Street. These buildings were once the center of D.C.'s wholesale district, housing dozens of wholesalers that provided food and supplies to restaurants, small businesses and individuals inside and outside the D.C. region since the market first opened in 1931.
Washington Post
21-07-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
The chicken + waffles (+ caviar?) shop you won't want to miss this summer
This month there's an influx of steak frites (mais, oui!) and a new gourmet chicken and waffles joint that ain't afraid to sprinkle on some caviar. Why not try something new? 'I'm lucky enough to see people's faces when they eat it. And that kind of really tells me everything that I need to know,' chef Reid Shilling says of the ear-to-ear grins he's spotted at Union Market's new fried chicken counter. Fancy Ranch founder Sara Quinteros, Shilling's wife and business partner at the regionally inspired Navy Yard restaurant Shilling Canning Company, says turning their top-selling dish into a stand-alone restaurant is really about getting back to basics.
Eater
03-06-2025
- Business
- Eater
D.C.'s Sensational Italian Pizzeria Is Coming to Union Market
Naples native Giulio Adriani, the award-winning pizzaiolo behind Slice & Pie and the adjacent Lucy Bar off the U Street NW corridor since 2022, will plant a flag inside Union Market this summer (1309 5th Street NE). Scheduled to arrive the second week of July, Slice & Pie's second location will sit alongside the new Taste of Lucy, an abbreviated version of its sibling cocktail bar. He'll roll out the same menu of Detroit- and New York-style pies and slices that prompted Italian organization 50 Top Pizza to crown Slice & Pie America's no. 2 slice shop last year, making a huge jump from no. 41 in 2023. The rest of Adriani's menu at the new restaurant will include other dishes that the original is known for. This includes appetizers (garlic knots), sandwiches (meatballs, prosciutto), and Italian desserts (cannoli and tiramisu). The Roman Catholic pizzaiolo respects the first U.S.-born pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, in a holistic way and has no interest in making money off the 'pope presence.' He's adamant he won't name a pie after the pope. 'The fact that he's American, it's a big thing for the nation, it's a good marketing tool, but I'd rather keep the saintliness of the figure intact and not try to benefit from it,' says Adriani. (He also doesn't do deep-dish Chicago pies, where the pope is from.) And then, as for the new cocktail bar, Taste of Lucy will offer a condensed version of the menu from the original. There will be five cocktails and about four to six wines by the glass, as well as Neapolitan pizzas, a different weekly pasta dish, and appetizers. A daily happy hour menu (5 p.m. to 7 p.m.) is in the works. Adriani's working on a pair of Union Market-specific cocktails. The first is a yet-to-be-named riff on a Paper Plane with two types of tequila, amaro meletti, Aperol, and lemon juice. The other one will be a clarified rum punch, 'something fresh, easy to drink,' he says. A wall will separate the 800-square-foot space, with pink neon-lit Slice & Pie on the left and Taste of Lucy to the right. While Slice & Pie won't offer seating, customers will have full view of the kitchen to watch the dough-flipping process. Customers can enjoy slices in Union Market's common area, unless they sit in one of the roughly 20 seats for drinks at Taste of Lucy's booths and bar. Adriani had originally planned to open Slice & Pie's second location at the Parks at Walter Reed (1155 Dahlia Street NW). But life is random, and negotiations between Adriani and Union Market landlord Edens that puttered out during the pandemic resumed once Parachute Pizza left the food hall at the end of 2024. 'Union Market has always been on my list,' says Adriani. 'I am a New Yorker, so I love Chelsea Market, and I think also communal space has always been something that's intrigued me, so it's something very exciting.' However, Slice & Pie's Water Reed location is still under construction. Adriani plans on opening this third restaurant around Labor Day. Sign up for our newsletter.
Axios
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Your D.C. Weekend: Memorial Day edition
Welcome to your long Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer. Why it matters: It's all pools, boats, and crab feasts from here on out (or so we dream). State of play: We're packing the next four days, summer-style, to make the most of it (plus a fun festival tonight because who's working Friday?). The Asian-inspired festival returns atop Union Market (5:30-10:30pm) with food from popular eateries like co-host Tiger Fork, Chiko, Baan Mae and more, plus a sake & baijiu bar, lion dancing, DJ tunes, and artisan vendor stalls ($5 entry tickets). Friday: Putt Across America at The Wharf Good for dates and families alike, this 18-hole putt-putt course returns to the waterfront with features inspired by Bourbon Street, Niagara Falls and beyond (all-day tickets start at $25/adult, $22/kid). Open daily through Sept. 1. Between the lines: It's also the start of outdoor movie season, and one of our favorites — the spooky Congressional "Cinematery" — starts Friday with a screening of " Jaws" and happy hour amid the headstones. Saturday: RenFests! Party like it's 1699 and day-trip to either the Virginia Renaissance Faire at Lake Anna Winery in Spotsylvania (~1.5 hours), or the Southern Maryland Renaissance Festival in Leonardtown, which is this weekend only (~2 hours). Meanwhile, there's a massive House Music Festival (free, Fri-Sat) at NoMa's Alethia Tanner Park for Black Pride, featuring 11 hours of nonstop tunes with cocktail and food vendors to keep the party going. Sunday: National Memorial Day Concert A D.C. tradition, you can watch the star-studded concert — and also the dress rehearsal on Saturday — for free on the Capitol's West Lawn before it's broadcast to the nation. Gates open at 5pm. No tickets needed, but plan for metal detectors, security checks and bag limits. Bonus Sunday (aka Monday): Parades! The big game in town, the National Memorial Day Parade, takes over Constitution Avenue with live music and plenty of pomp and circumstance starting at 2pm (free). For a small-town feel, check out the 43rd annual Falls Church Memorial Day Parade and Festival with a 5k race, live bands, food/drink vendors, pony rides and a blood drive. More Monday funday options: 🏊 Over 20 D.C. public pools and 34 spray parks open for the season on Saturday, and will be open Sunday and Memorial Day. Moving forward, they'll operate on a weekend-only schedule through Sunday, June 22, after which they'll open for summer weekday hours. 🍻 All-day happy hour goes down at Calico in Shaw (2-10pm), which channels a backyard party with boozy juiceboxes, tomato pies and free arts and crafts. 🍳 Monday brunch vibes are on at Boundary Stone in Bloomingdale (free bottomless drinks with an entree, say less), Cordelia Fishbar at Union Market (channel the beach with lobster rolls and tikis), and Navy Yard's All-Purpose (go for a lovely waterfront and $21 unlimited spritzes).
Axios
07-03-2025
- Automotive
- Axios
Back-in angle parking is cropping up all over Richmond
Back-in angle parking, a newish-to-Richmond type of street parking, is cropping up in more parts of the city. Why it matters: Richmonders don't do well with change, especially when it involves parking. The big picture: Back-in angle parking is generally a safer way to park because it's easier for drivers to see pedestrians or traffic when exiting a space. Plus it puts drivers closer to the sidewalk once parked, according to urban planners. It can also create more overall spaces compared to parallel parking — but safety is the main reason Richmond recently started adding more of it, Paige Hairston, a spokesperson for the city's public works department, tells Axios. It takes a wider street to handle back-in spaces, though, so the city is only able to add it where there's "extra width that makes a conversion possible," Hairston notes. Zoom in: Jefferson Avenue in Church Hill is the latest street where you now back in to park. It joins longer-established rows of back-in parking on Libbie Avenue in the Near West End, 19th Street in Shockoe Bottom and Byrd Street downtown. More spots are in the works in South Richmond, on Forest Hill Avenue where it forks off from Semmes, as part of broader pedestrian-safety enhancements. Yes, but: The newish-to-Richmond parking on Jefferson was rolled out with little, if any, how-to information from the city. And, unlike in other parts of town, the spaces near Slurp Ramen and across from Union Market lack signage saying it's back-in. A recent poster to Richmond's Reddit forum thought the city had installed the spaces backwards … and the 93 comments the post racked up suggest many locals aren't sure how it all works. On a Friday trip to Church Hill, this Axios reporter found more than half the cars were parked facing-foward, the incorrect — and far more dangerous — way to use the spaces. That backward back-in parking could earn Richmonders a ticket. "Front-end parking, as well as parking in crosswalks or within 20 feet of crosswalks, is illegal and will be enforced," Hairston says. Fun fact: Back-in angle parking actually made its Richmond debut more than a decade ago on 10th Street near City Hall. Neither 10th Street nor Richmonders were fans. "I had to struggle to get into it..." one annoyed parker told Channel 12 news. How it works: You back in. At an angle. As you would when parallel parking, only fewer turns. In fact, back-in angle parking is just "half the maneuver" of parallel parking — and for most people, Hairston says, easier to do. Richmond, clearly, is not most people. So we've got some work to do.
