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I grew up hearing my grandmother exclaim “menomale!” And she made good pizza.
She’s in D.C. It’s a stupid business move to do that. She should have pretended to be “woke” instead.
This is the exact bullying that conservatives have lived with for years.
Accessible location near New York & Florida Aves, Northeast. I’ve passed it often. Now I know where to stop in.
All she did was define her clientele. Here in Redmond Oregon, I go to a barbershop that accepts cash only, displays a large picture of John Wayne as you enter, and prominently posts a sign encouraging clients to bring their guns. We chose our favorite breakfast place as the one whose waiters wore shirts that said “we will not comply” when the governor decreed everyone had to wear masks.
That’s a good target for us. It’s a couple of miles north of us on the other side of New York Avenue and the railyards, but Brookland is still in our reasonably near range. It looks to be in an area that is of considerable interest to me. The Rhode Island Avenue corridor is coming back to life, as are the historically battered corridors along the rail lines running north and east out of the rail yards.
Brookland used to be one of those middle class neighborhoods hanging on by its fingernails; it was always too close to Catholic University to collapse entirely, and there’s nothing wrong with the basic housing stock. It started to rebound in a big way when Capitol Hill got expensive and people started migrating to the nearest affordable middle class bunker, which in this case is just to the north. It’s come a long way in the last 20 years. It’s not yet as expensive as Capitol Hill has become, and as you move north and east through Brookland, the rowhouses give way to single family detached homes, and they are a lot larger. Parts of Brookland are quite gracious.
This is on 12th street, the main drag through Brookland. It is a half mile south of 12th and Monroe, which is the heart of Brookland’s neighborhood main street, just across the tracks from Catholic University and the Brookland-CUA metro stop. It looks like a neighborhood joint relying on walk-in traffic from locals. I’ll see if the wife wants to try a new pizza place.
I wasn’t familiar with this place. I used to take 12th street all the time if returning to the Hill from the north, but in recent years I’ve taken to sneaking down on 9th, just because it feels funkier to hug the railroad tracks. And there’s no traffic, whereas 12th is busy. I have grown fond of my little “secret” cut through routes that confuse even the locals. It’s fun to get off the beaten track and watch how the neighborhoods change.
Yeah, DC votes 90 percent plus for the dark side, but this is Brookland. At least some of the Catholics are Republicans, as are the small businessmen, many of the professionals, and a fair percentage of gentrifiers.
All restaurants who publicly come out against DJT should be on the “do not do business with” list for all Fed employees. Similarly, this outfit needs to feed every conference until the end of 2025.
We ate there tonight. Recommended. Very small, casual, inexpensive. It was doing a brisk carryout business, and there were enough sit down diners to feel comfortable — and that’s on a cold night with the Catholic University kids gone. I’m generally not a fan of Neapolitan pizza as I prefer a somewhat thicker crust, but it was still definitely well above average. Right next door to a Ledo’s Pizza, and it was head and shoulders better than Ledo’s, which has a local cult following since Ledo’s started in College Park and became a UMD thing. Maryland’s taste in pizza is as bad as its taste in politics.
There’s actually a second location even closer to us, but I figured parking would be easier in Brookland.