• Wednesday, at a meeting for the Dupont Circle neighborhood commission (ANC2B), Komi submitted an application (*PDF) for six more seats in its second-floor townhouse dining room and an additional 26 in the lower level that chef/owner Johnny Monis recently purchased. Monis also asked for a sidewalk cafe with no more than ten seats. Writer David Hagedorn noticed that ANC2B commissioner Kevin O’Connor wrote on Twitter that the board voted that there would be no exceptions made to the 17th Street liquor-license moratorium.
• In other neighborhood-and-liquor-license news, two proposed restaurants got the green light from a Barracks Row ANC: Nooshi—a pan-Asian spot with a location in downtown DC—and Moby Dick, the long-running chain of kebab houses.
• Constantine Stavropoulos is combining the business plans from two of his existing restaurants—Tryst and the Diner (he also owns Open City)—for a new venture in Columbia Heights at 11th and Monroe streets, Northwest. Prince of Petworth says that the 7,000-square-foot space will be open 24/7 and have a 30-seat bar, a coffeehouse vibe, and diner-like comfort food.
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