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I forgot to say, the French/Belgian place is definitely on the east side of
8th street....

-Matt

"matttt" <matttt@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
news:2vfcc.11364$I66.6255@nwrddc03.gnilink.net...
> I think you're getting Maury's confused with another restaurant that is
yet
> to open ("French and Belgian cuisine").  We've been keeping an eye on it,
> but haven't been able to learn much.  We did see that the door was cracked
> open this past weekend and my wife said whe saw contractors in there
working
> away....
>
> "Paul Michael Brown" <pmb@his.com> wrote in message
> news:pmb-2501042355390001@max1ka-20.his.com...
> > > Couple months ago I noticed on 8th Street on Capitol Hill signs
> > > indicating a new Belgian restaurant was opening soon.  I don't know
> > > its name and can't find any mention of it in The Post or
> > > Washingtonian.  Anyone know what its status is?
> >
> > I think I know what restaurant you mean, but for the life of me I'm
> > blanking on the name. (Maury's?) You'll find it on the west side of
Eighth
> > Street SE, about 200 feet south of E Street SE. (Close to the Eastern
> > Market metro stop, and *very* close to the Marine Barracks.) I cannot
> > report on how good it is. But I can attest the renovation was elaborate.
> > (The space was not a restaurant in its prior life. Rather, it was a
> > fly-infested grocery store that sold little more than giant bottles of
> > malt liquor to the local street people.) So I figure at least the dining
> > room should be nice.  There is also a new Irish restaurant another 200
> > feet south on the same side of the street, across the street from the
> > house where the Commandant of the Marine Corps lives.  It would seem
there
> > is a thriving restaurant district growing up around the Eastern Market
> > metro.
> >
>
>