Dupont Circle 30 years ago

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Club 1223

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The Italian restaurant you describe was likely Enzo’s. It was an incredible place with authentic food. I think they were located where Al tiramisu is now…Mr. Enzo welcomed guests….

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Yeah surprised this wasn’t mentioned earlier.

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Othello sounds right

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Anonymous wrote:Cafe Luna and the other one upstairs that sold great salads.

Skewers

Yes! We had our rehearsal dinner there. It was lovely.

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I lived there from 94-96 – this is a great walk down memory lane!

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DuPont Italian kitchen?..

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Wrapworks!

Wow I used to love that place. The General Mustard was the BEST.

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Anonymous wrote:So Front Page, Buffalo Billiards, The Big Hunt, and Brickskeller are all gone?

Correct.

It really surprised me when brickskeller closed — they were really unique and it was always crowded. And it’s not like fancy beer has gone out of favor — I think it’s more popular now than it was 30 years ago.

A friend worked there. It was due to ownership/management not really knowing how to run such a business. The demand was there, but they failed when it came to execution.

It was a total mess 20 years ago, they NEVER had anything in stock. I would always give the server my top 3 beers, and 9 times out of 10, she would STILL have to come back to get another order because they were all out of stock.

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Anonymous wrote:So Front Page, Buffalo Billiards, The Big Hunt, and Brickskeller are all gone?

Correct.

It really surprised me when brickskeller closed — they were really unique and it was always crowded. And it’s not like fancy beer has gone out of favor — I think it’s more popular now than it was 30 years ago.

A friend worked there. It was due to ownership/management not really knowing how to run such a business. The demand was there, but they failed when it came to execution.

It was a total mess 20 years ago, they NEVER had anything in stock. I would always give the server my top 3 beers, and 9 times out of 10, she would STILL have to come back to get another order because they were all out of stock.

I once got served a cooked burger that somehow had a patty that was wrapped in Saran Wrap at the Brickskeller. Pretty sure it closed soon after. But it was such a cool idea for its time, even if the beer menu was in large part fiction.

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One of my fave Dupont places in the 90s was Bua Thai between 16th and 17th on P. Nice upstairs deck. They are still there---have amazing noodle dish with shrimp that no other place has. There was a great Malaysian place on 18th called Straits of Malaya---also with a great roof deck. And the original Lauriol Plaza in the small location at 18th & S. And remember Tom Tom on 18th? Il Radicchio on 17th was great. Galileo and Obelisk on P Street---both excellent.

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Anonymous wrote:So Front Page, Buffalo Billiards, The Big Hunt, and Brickskeller are all gone?

Correct.

It really surprised me when brickskeller closed — they were really unique and it was always crowded. And it’s not like fancy beer has gone out of favor — I think it’s more popular now than it was 30 years ago.

A friend worked there. It was due to ownership/management not really knowing how to run such a business. The demand was there, but they failed when it came to execution.

It was a total mess 20 years ago, they NEVER had anything in stock. I would always give the server my top 3 beers, and 9 times out of 10, she would STILL have to come back to get another order because they were all out of stock.

Me, too! I would even write them down. The server would bring like a third of the table's order and disappear until we needed the check, which was often earlier than initially planned due to not, you know, getting any beers. If I wanted to socialize without drinking in a mildewy place, I could have gone to several friends' apartments on Capitol Hill.

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giorgio's?

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Anonymous wrote:French: La Fourchette?

That was in Adams Morgan, not DuPont

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Anonymous wrote:French: La Fourchette?

That was in Adams Morgan, not DuPont

They had a great ostrich steak