Del Ray - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:29:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Del Ray - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Dogs, Kids, and Bocce Players Are Welcome at This Del Ray Boulangerie’s New Beer Garden https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/15/dogs-kids-and-bocce-players-are-welcome-at-this-del-ray-boulangeries-new-beer-garden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dogs-kids-and-bocce-players-are-welcome-at-this-del-ray-boulangeries-new-beer-garden https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/15/dogs-kids-and-bocce-players-are-welcome-at-this-del-ray-boulangeries-new-beer-garden/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:22:25 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1676361 Gustave Le Jardin, 2213 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. It may be the wrong time of year, but Karim Mashmour and Ibtissam Lhadi’s vision for a slice of France in Del Ray is finally finished.  Gustave Le Jardin, their capacious, family-friendly beer garden with picnic tables, a dog park, bocce, and a sandbox, finally opened in […]

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Looks Like JD Vance Bought a House in Left-Leaning Del Ray. It’s Already Been Yarn-Bombed. https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/03/23/looks-like-jd-vance-bought-a-house-in-left-leaning-del-ray-its-already-been-yarn-bombed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looks-like-jd-vance-bought-a-house-in-left-leaning-del-ray-its-already-been-yarn-bombed Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:06:33 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1630059 It seems that JD Vance has purchased a home in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria. Yesterday, Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported that the Ohio Republican senator had snagged a house in an Alexandria “liberal enclave.” Jen Walker, a real estate agent who works in Del Ray and is well-versed in the area’s deals, says the […]

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All-Day Brunch Restaurant Matt and Tony’s Debuts in Del Ray https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/11/all-day-breakfast-brunch-restaurant-matt-and-tonys-opens-in-del-ray/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=all-day-breakfast-brunch-restaurant-matt-and-tonys-opens-in-del-ray Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:46:00 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1571971 Brunch is a love-it-or-hate-it shift for restaurant workers, but Washington is a brunch town—and Matt Sloan is a brunch guy.  “I love the meal, and there’s a lot you can do with it” says Sloan, who’s worked many a weekend morning over two decades in front-of-house operations (he most recently opened Ada’s on the Riverfront in […]

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5 Fun Fall Festivals Around DC This Weekend https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/09/29/5-fun-fall-festivals-around-dc-this-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-fun-fall-festivals-around-dc-this-weekend Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:36:27 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1550444 The forecast for this weekend is bright and sunny, and several neighborhoods in the DC area will be putting on fun festivals with lots of local flavor. If you enjoy live music, the Adams Morgan Porchfest is the place to be on Saturday, October 2 from 2 to 6 PM. For one day only, more […]

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Alexandria Will Soon Have Another Bookstore https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/07/20/alexandria-will-soon-have-another-bookstore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alexandria-will-soon-have-another-bookstore Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:36:33 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1179029 Don Alexander caused a bit of a stir in Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood last month when he announced, via Nextdoor, that he plans to open a used bookstore on Mount Vernon Avenue. On Friday, he agreed to a lease for the Company of Books at 1712 Mount Vernon Avenue, and tells Washingtonian he plans to […]

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Cheap Eats 2019: Stomping Ground https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/01/cheap-eats-2019-stomping-ground/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cheap-eats-2019-stomping-ground https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/01/cheap-eats-2019-stomping-ground/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:01:00 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/01/cheap-eats-2019-stomping-ground/ Giant, fluffy buttermilk biscuits are the thing at Nicole Jones’s sister bakeries—the stroller-crammed Del Ray original and the newer Tysons Galleria kiosk. They’re fabulous on their own or with a simple swipe of house-made jam. There’s no elegant way to eat them in sandwich form—crammed with bacon, egg, and cheese or with fried chicken, honey, […]

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Del Ray’s All-Day Beer Garden is Now Open with Kid and Dog-Friendly Menus (Plus Tacos for Adults) https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/07/17/all-day-outdoor-bar-and-restaurant-the-garden-is-open-in-del-ray/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=all-day-outdoor-bar-and-restaurant-the-garden-is-open-in-del-ray Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:00:05 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=777749 There’s a lot more than brews and brats on tap at The Garden, a 100-seat outdoor bar and restaurant that opened last week in Del Ray. Owners Jeremy Barber and chef Justus Frank, the duo behind adjoining Charlie’s on the Avenue sports bar and nearby Southern restaurant Live Oak, wanted to build a beer garden […]

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DC Apartment Hunting Is Officially Bonkers, in the Most DC Way Possible https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/07/07/dc-apartment-hunting-is-officially-bonkers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-apartment-hunting-is-officially-bonkers Sun, 07 Jul 2019 22:00:35 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=760143 Libby Rasmussen has a sublime ceramic ass. It’s one of the first things you notice in her bedroom—its two rounded moons taut and bethonged, perched near a stack of Hermès boxes and a succulent, lording over the space like a benevolent god from its pile of arty books. The mountaintop pinnacle of the swooniest Instagram […]

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Del Ray’s New Beer Garden Has 52 Taps, Moonshine, and Tons of Grilled Cheeses https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/01/25/del-rays-new-beer-garden-has-52-taps-moonshine-and-tons-of-grilled-cheeses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=del-rays-new-beer-garden-has-52-taps-moonshine-and-tons-of-grilled-cheeses Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:47:06 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=595668 The north end of Del Ray has long been a bit less upmarket than much of the Alexandria neighborhood, but that’s been changing with the arrival of Streets Market, Northside 10, and now Hops N Shine, which occupies the former Señor Chicken space at the corner of Mount Vernon Avenue and West Glebe Road. (It doesn’t […]

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My Pleasant Suburb Is Going a Little Bit Crazy https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/05/06/my-pleasant-suburb-is-going-a-little-bit-crazy-alexandria-virginia-allison-silberberg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-pleasant-suburb-is-going-a-little-bit-crazy-alexandria-virginia-allison-silberberg Sun, 06 May 2018 22:00:47 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=362856 Allison Silberberg, the mayor of Alexandria, kicked off her reelection campaign one day this past February at Los Tios Grill, a restaurant in the city’s Del Ray neighborhood. Signs called her “The People’s Mayor,” and there was a long table with big piles of Fiestaware alongside quesadillas, guacamole, salsa, and plantains. There were also plenty […]

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