Say Yum: DC Brau and Chinatown Coffee Co. Host Event

Beerfest? At a coffee shop? Say yes - to Chinatown Coffee Co. The shop will host a “Summer Beer Fest” event in celebration of its summer menu of beer on Friday July 22nd from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.  The event will feature $2 cans of the DC Brau Brewing Company’s Public Ale and a 25% discount on its featured summer beer list.

DC Brau Brewing Company was founded in 2009, and is the first production brewery to be based in the District since 1956. Co-founders Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock have extensive experience in the restaurant and brewing businesses, and have combined their shared knowledge to create a unique beer that DC can call its own.

Other beers that will be featured in Chinatown Coffee Co.’s Summer Beer Fest include Victory’s Golden Monkey of Downingtown, Pa.; Bell’s Oberon Ale of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Great Lakes’ Eliot Ness of Cleveland, Ohio; and Anderson Valley’s Summer Solstice of Boonville, Calif.

Assistant General Manager Josh Croston said, “DC Brau’s Public Ale is a great beer and is by far one of my favorites. The Public Ale is a smooth pale ale with a nice crispness from its abundance of hops. Chinatown Coffee Co. is always looking for local DC businesses to support and I know we are all very excited to offer DC Brau’s Public Ale to our customers at the Summer Beer Fest event.”

Say Yum: Chinese New Year at Chinatown Coffee Co.

Chinatown Coffee Co. be ringing in the Year of the Rabbit on February 6th by  featuring a new signature cocktail, the “The Crazy Rabbit,”composed of absinthe and champagne.

Chinatown Coffee Co.’s Chinese New Year celebration will be held on the same day as DC’s annual Chinese New Year parade on H Street, NW in Chinatown. The parade is from 2pm to 5pm and will feature a traditional Chinese Dragon Dance, Kung Fu demonstrations, and live musical entertainment.

Say Yum: Crazy For Gaga

Be one of the first ten people tonight to show your Lady GaGa ticket at Chinatown Coffee Co. and you'll get half-off their Absinthe cocktail!

You're Invited: Get Your Roll On With Red Hook Lobster Pound and Chinatown Coffee Co.

In Case You Missed It: August Restos

Want to know where the see and be seen types are noshing this month? Check it out, in the August "Restos" issue of JuliB.com.

Say Yum: Bayou Bakery No Longer Opening in Clarendon

Sad news (sort of) for Deacon's Clarendon friends ... Bayou Bakery, set to open next month in the former Murky Coffee space, is no longer launching in that location. David Guas, chef/owner, plans to start hunting immediately for a new space, and the owners of the property (the team behind the cult fave Liberty Tavern) plan to open a new venture in that space.

Grrr, says Deacon. We were excited for the place to finally open! Press release pasted below for full details.

In happy news, Chinatown Coffee Co., the venture from former Murky owner Nick Cho, is set to open Monday on 5th and F Sts NW. Wrecking Ball Coffee, the original name we reported, is said to be opening later.

Bayou Bakery is Moving Onward…Elsewhere
Pastry Chef David Guas Sees a Sweet Future

This message is first and foremost a warm thank-you to all friends, family, colleagues, and members of the media for their tremendous support in advance of the opening of Bayou Bakery in Clarendon, Virginia.

Effective today, however, Bayou Bakery regretfully announces that the highly anticipated enterprise under the name of Bayou Bakery will not open its doors at 3211 Wilson Boulevard as planned. The partnership established between the owners of The Liberty Tavern, Stephen Fedorchak and Brian Normile, and David Guas, pastry chef, Damgoodsweet, inc. has been dissolved.

Bayou Bakery, featuring a progressive coffee program inspired by the proposed space’s previous incarnation, and supported by the exceptional home-style southern desserts, ice-creams, and snoballs influenced by Guas's native New Orleans, will be developed elsewhere in the area. An alternate concept will be established in the existing space by The Liberty Tavern group and the team remains very excited about opening a vibrant, hospitable new business in this historic Clarendon property. Please contact Stephen Fedorchak for more details.

All the public demand and media attention focused on a southern themed bakery redoubles David Guas’ determination to make Bayou Bakery a reality, an establishment where the pages of his forthcoming dessert cookbook, dam good sweet[November 2009, Taunton Press], come to life for friends and neighbors in northern Virginia. He will renew his search immediately for prime real estate and funding to create a foothold with his delectably comforting concept. The proof is in the pudding!