09.30 - and we'll never be royals
what’s going on in d.c.
Friday: Union Market’s La Cosecha hosts a Latin music night (6:30-9:30 pm)
Saturday: Taste of Bethesda returns to the Woodmont Triangle area with local restaurant specials (11 am - 4 pm) | Adams Morgan PorchFest, featuring 70+ bands, sets up along 17 neighborhood porches and patios (2-6 pm) | The All Things Go musical festival, headlined by Lorde, Mitski, and Bleachers, is all day/evening at Merriweather | Story District celebrates 25 years of storytelling open mics + shows with a performance at The Lincoln Theatre (7 pm)
Sunday: The Takoma Park Street Festival features music, food, and other vendors (10 am - 5 pm) | It’s Oktoberfest weekend at The Wharf - the Wiener 500 Dachshund Dash highlighting the event (2-5 pm)
Ongoing: celebrate spooky season by heading to one of these haunted houses/forests. Most stay open through Halloween/early November.
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: Shrimp gone wild taco from Rebel Taco
Craving a late night bite? Check out these 11 new options, including Rebel Taco on U St and Bar Chinois’ late night dumplings in Mt. Vernon Triangle.
It finally feels like fall coffee season (as opposed to the marketing pushing pumpkin spice lattes on 100 degree days) - here’s some options for seasonal drinks (one missing option? the stellar chaider - chai + cider - at a baked joint)
what’s on our minds?
The first Lidl grocery store opened in D.C. this week, culminating a ten year effort to bring a grocery story east of the Anacostia River. Although DC has 76 grocery stores, the vast majority are in the north and west parts of the city, and combined, Wards 7 and 8 only have three. Lidl is at the Skyland Town Center, which is also now home to a drive-thru Starbucks and &pizza.
WaPo photographed 19 new animal residents of the National Zoo - the sand cat is particularly cute.
Peek inside the 12 homes that won this year’s residential design awards - including a Takoma Park treehouse-style bungalow and a modern home along the Potomac.
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
Nothing Is Cooler Than Going Out to Dinner - per The Atlantic, “Why it’s so hard to get a restaurant reservation right now”
Young and Homeless in Rural America - per The New York Times Magazine, “Most social services come through the schools — but it can be impossible to get to them.”
They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay. - per The New York Times, “‘With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.”