The weekend will be sporting its long underwear.
Your Perks: 1) Award-winning Russian black osetra caviar that was banned for the last 10 years. 2) Leather texting gloves that work with your phone in the cold. Finally. 3) A slim, lightweight portable phone charger so you never have to fight over outlets while traveling. Or at your family’s house during the holidays.
You may have been to the old-school-and-casual Alphonse on U Street by now for a pizza or a breakfast sandwich. But head upstairs now and it’s... not like that. Think: white tablecloths, dark red walls and a tasting menu highlighting a different area of Italy each month. Which means probably no breakfast sandwiches.
By this weekend, it’s going to feel downright arctic out there. So you can either seek out a fireplace and a hot toddy, or make some laps at the National Gallery or Washington Harbour ice rinks—both of which open tomorrow—and then seek out a hot toddy. That’s what Brian Boitano would do.
Just in time for holiday gifting (or your own obsessive shirt collecting), here’s Richmond haberdasher Ledbury, popping up in Georgetown. Designed with a quail hunt theme, the store will be stocking cable-knit sweaters, blazers, belts and a short-run line of casual shirts just for DC. Maybe some bourbon, too.
Your Thanksgiving will be different this year. Because you can stock up at this pop-up food market in a former electric warehouse near Union Market, with vendors local (Gordy’s Pickle Jar, Bread Furst) and not-so-local (Momofuku Milk Bar, Mast Brothers chocolate). Store in a cool, dry place.
Portland’s Deschutes Brewery is going to be available in DC starting this weekend. And then on Tuesday at Jaleo, they’re unveiling their collaboration beer with José Andrés, a saison called Zarabanda. No molecular gastronomy involved, just dried lime, lemon verbena, pink peppercorn and sumac.
