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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of sour grapes and haters in this thread. Georgetown is great for what it is - safe, family friendly, walkable, solid by-right public schools. The houses are old, but charming. Lots of fun free activities for our kids at the rec center, pool, and Book Hill Library.

If Georgetown was so awful, then we wouldn’t have all these OOB students from Petworth, Shaw, Cap Hill, etc clamoring for our seats. Also, I can’t remember the last time I even heard of a shoot out in Georgetown, Burleith, or Glover Park. That’s a weekly occurance, per reports on Popville, in EOTP neighborhoods and happened three times in two years within 250 feet of our doorstep on Euclid St NW in CoHi.

Things are turning over right now on Wisconsin. Legacy tenants are getting the boot. There’s a new French bakery opening in a long empty space. Wingo’s Cafe replaced the Fox Taproom. The recent renovation of the Glover Park Hotel was very successful and Casolare is packed. The new Trader Joe’s and high end condos is ahead of schedule. Changes are happening quickly.[/quote]

Most of the things you mentioned are in Glover Park... GP is not the same as Georgetown, and thank goodness for that.

Wingo's, Casolare, and the new TJ's are/will be mostly for locals... and that's fine with me.[/quote]

PP just proved all of our points. The day that WINGOS became a draw for Georgetown is the day we can all agree its gone downhill.

For those who don't know, Wingos is the best fried wing place WOTP. Draw of college students and drunks. [/quote]

I'm the PP you're quoting. Honestly, I'm sure some of the long time residents of Shaw and U Street would love an affordable place, like a Wingo's. Not everyone can afford to drop $80 every time they step out of the house for fancy "sharing plates." There's room for lots of demographic groups and price points in the Wisconsin Ave corridor. My point was that some of the empty storefronts along Wisconsin are starting to fill up.

Fresh Baguette - a very successful shop from Bethesda - is opening their first DC location on a long-shuttered corner on Wisconsin Ave. http://www.freshbaguette.net/

[b]I know that lots of people in Dupont, Shaw, etc would kill for a fresh bread shop. [/b]

There's also an amazing Uyghur Restaurant that just opened, complete with hand pulled noodles. It has rave reviews: https://www.yelp.com/biz/eerkins-uyghur-cuisine-and-tea-bar-washington-3

We moved to the Wisconsin Avenue corridor from Adams Morgan last year and we can honestly say that there's plenty here within walking distance to keep us satisfied. And, even better, the stuff near our place is actually affordable. [/quote]

Seylou - 9th and N
www.seylou.com/

Also Uyghur is great - seriously I'm happy for you - but specialty restaurants like that rarely stick around more than 18 months (I say this still weeping about my lost Mongolian on H Street). [/quote]

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