Weekly Food News Round-up! (With a BYT Exclusive)
August 27, 2008 by Alex Nicholson 
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This week an exclusive first look at something on 9th, cupcakes and final look at those that left us this summer.
Breaking News - Exclusive to BYT A new place is set to open in a part of town we all know very well, by a group pf people we also know very well and who have been kind enough to give BYT the very first look.
Brought to us by Phil Rodriguez and Joey Belcher, of Sticky Rice on H Street, and Mick Mier and Joe Steger the design team responsible for Science Club, Napoleon and Sesto Senso, 1905 will offer French-inspired bistro fare. They hope 1905 will be a cozy addition to the neighborhood. The kind of place you want to eat, hang out, drink some wine, then come back the next night and do it again.
There’s no details on menu yet, but I was told to think beignets. Mmmmm, beignets.
When asked what he wanted to add to the neighborhood, Rodriguez said with a straight face, “sexy.” He’s been kind enough to give us the very first photo of 1905, a place I plan on spending most of my waking hours. Hopefully this isn’t the view I’ll have all the time.
1905 (1905 9th Street) will open in mid-September.
ZOMG - More cupcakes! So Hello Cupcake opened up this week, have you been yet? Washingtonian staked the place out taking loads of pictures. They offer 14-15 cupcakes a day. One vegan, one gluten-free and one seasonal. Apparently the root beer float cupcake is the way to go, complete with little straw in the frosting. Why don’t some of you go check it out at lunch and give a full report. For some reason cupcakes are far more exciting to me than frozen yogurt.
RIP - Last week I thought that it seemed more places were opening than closing. Amanda at Metrocurean gives an end of summer look at everything that closed. A moment of silence for Butterfield 9, Colorado Kitchen, Curry Club, Gerard Pangaud Bistro, L’Oustalet, M’Dawg Haute Dogs Meridian, Merkado, Montsouris, Restaurant K and San Marco.
Very glad M’Dawg closed. That place was pathetic. It was a shadow of it’s former self once they changed owners.
A SHADOW, I say.
August 27, 2008 at 2:02 pmAnd cup cakes are good and all, but this city’s fascination with them is weird.
Just sayin’.
August 27, 2008 at 2:05 pmthis city? try new york. magnolia is like a shrine there.
August 27, 2008 at 2:10 pmchicks dig cupcakes. go figure.
August 27, 2008 at 4:04 pmI love cupcakes, but I hate the way that frosting looks.
August 27, 2008 at 4:07 pmI remember in elementary school we had the “Fun Fair” on some Sat each year which was just like a big carnival. There was always a make your own cupcake station. It was so god damn awesome. They had naked chocolate and vanilla ones and you could add as much icing and sprinklins as you wanted!! I went crazy with the icing!! I remember one of the sprinkle types you could add looked like a metallic ball but it was edible. Or I may have made that up. Anyway, I’d really like to go to the Fun Fair again. One time I won a Spam (the food) poster in a ring toss game and I thought it was stupid so I threw it away, then a few years later in high school it was like the whole 90’s craze of product based fashion and I bought a Spam tshirt and was so pissed at myself for throwing the poster away.
Also one time in college I found these biscuits in the grocery store called Butter Me Nots and they were like southern biscuits but they were pre-buttered with these little butter balls that sort of expanded when you baked them. It was pretty exciting. That doesn’t really have anything to do with anything though.
August 27, 2008 at 4:18 pmButter Me Nots sound really awesome.
I’ll tell you my guilty pleasure is not real cupcakes, but Hostess cupcakes. I like to peel the frosting off and then suck the filling out. Can’t believe I just shared that.
August 27, 2008 at 4:31 pmMichael M: i think it’s more of a girl thing. Cup-cakes are the epitome of all that is unhealthy and delicious. there are so many wonderful combination’s; it’s a food that most everyone likes, if their made the right way. they’re so versatile, that adds to the greatness.
August 27, 2008 at 4:41 pmCale: those metallic balls do exist, and are awesome. almost as awesome as edible glitter - but you have to go to a specialty store to get that.
August 27, 2008 at 4:42 pmDo they serve D cup cakes?
August 27, 2008 at 7:48 pmDanke for the link. And I’m glad to hear the Grape Legs space is back in play.
August 27, 2008 at 7:50 pmThe little silver ball things are called dragees (dra-jzhays). When I was a kid, we always used to buy them to decorate cookies in the regular grocery store in the baking section next to the colored sprinkles. If they are not there anymore, you can buy them on many gourmet Web sites. Fun fact! According to http://fancyflours.com/site/dragees.html : “As fabulous as these decorations are, please note that silver and gold dragees are to be used as “decoration only” per the FDA because they contain trace amounts of metal (ie: silver).”
August 29, 2008 at 7:47 am
I tried to go to Hello Cupcake after work yesterday but they were already all closed up and out of cupcakes. Boo urns.
August 27, 2008 at 1:19 pm