This week we have some BYT-first news on a new pie shop on H Street, Policy's upcoming burger place, Marvin to open a bakery, Rustico gets a new location, Chinatown Coffee opens, gardens are political gold, DC has good local food and Muscle Milk is gross.
First for the news:
Dangerously Delicious Pies, a Baltimore-based shop, is coming to H Street. With partners who have their fingers in the pies of the Rock and Roll Hotel, Sticky Rice, Red and the Black, DC9 and 1905, it should be a rocking little pie shop. This makes sense since the man behind Dangerously Delicious Pies is Rodney Henry, who decided to make pies while touring with The Glenmont Popes.
Voted Baltimore's best pie in 2008, the shop will offer the same menu as Baltimore. Sweet pies include: Mid-Western style custard pie, chess pie (five flavors!), caramel apple crumb pie, Mobtown Brown pie (pecan and chocolate) and the Baltimore Bomb. Savory pies include: Bacon onion gruyere, sausage tomato fennel, pork BBQ, and eight different quiche offerings. A New Orleans-style crayfish pie may be offered in D.C..
Expect to see something in 2-3 months at 1339 H St NW, between the Rock and Roll Hotel and H Street Country Club. Pies will be made fresh at the location, and may be sold locally through some retailers.
And now the round up:
- From 14th and You, Policy is taking over a corner of 14th and U. First up, a "top shelf" burger joint at 2001 14th Street which will include a 1200 sq. ft patio. Expect this in time for next summer.
- From PoP, Marvin is building a bakery and wine bar in the lot next to their building. I eat cookies exclusively when I have a hangover. Not related, just thought you'd want to know.
- Rustico is coming to Clarendon.
- Chinatown Coffee opens. Tim Carman gets all the details.
- Michelle Obama inspires gardens at 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.
- DC makes the list of "Top Best Cities for Local Food." Go us!
- Nestle goes after Muscle Milk for making false claims about a product that has no dairy. Their response, it's supposed to be like human milk, not cow's. Wtf?
God loves a cheerful giver.
Too bad dangerously delicious pies are terrible.
I'm sure pies, like pizza (which I guess is also a pie), have their own loyalists. People like different kinds, styles and flavors. Sure there will be somethign for everyone.
We checked out Dangerously Delicious while in Baltimore for HonFest and loved it. Another coup for H Street (yay our neighborhood).
can we just get a baker's square out here on the east coast already? its like denny's, but with more pies. like perkins. perkins anyone?
sources indicate he deep fried a pie on an episode of paula deen
Awesome Pie Man Video:
You mean NE. It's too easy to get the fingers in the habit of appending NW to everything.
sorry to be a niggler (like michael.) but if a pie is "new orleans" style, it's not gonna have any "cray"fish. that shit is gonna be crawfish.
@ Chad...you are absolutely right...as a native New Orleanian, we always look at people funny when they say 'Crayfish'...so yeah...we are makin' Crawfish Pies!
@hmmm....you are just pissed because we fired you! Get over it hater!
Hey Bryan ... OBAMA!
Thats right Fitsum, Obama is a huge fan of Dangerously Delicious Pies! Thanks For reminding me!
I LOVE Dangerously Delicious Pies, and Rodney H and the folks coming this way is even better news. Hope this shop, too, will be a place to hear so much of the good music that never gets booked in DC--
it is opening next door to a funeral parlor???? yuck!
A former funeral home turned rock and roll venue, sure.