Weekend loves company.
Your Perks: 1) Up to 69% off Maceoo polos, blazers and button-downs. The French seem to be fond of them. 2) A revitalizing juice cleanse, because sometimes you’ve got to balance the bad with the good. 3) The workout clothes they’d use to exercise in space. Houston, we have a... high-performance shirt.
This year, your valentine deserves the very best... made-for-TV movies. Playbackthetape, the outfit that screens original, taped-from-TV videotapes (commercials and all) is turning to mid-’80s TV movies, starring Michael J. Fox, Nia Long and Sean Astin. Rudy wasn’t born overnight.
A pork-and-grits-bowl pop-up. That’s a lot of hyphens. It’s also another reason to head to EatsPlace on Georgia Avenue. On the menu now: EcoFriendly Foods’ grits bar, which has you topping your grits with smoked pork, eggs and cheese. Or braised cabbage. If you must.
Picture it: Peru. 1970. A family starts a charcoal-fired rotisserie-chicken operation. Nice idea. Then, eventually, they take the whole thing to H Street. What this means for you: whole chickens, chicken subs and pollo saltado. Tastes like chicken.
Hanging around in a gelato factory: great. Hanging around in the same factory after dark, while bartenders whip up five different punches and a singer leads cabaret performances: better. The monthly event goes down for the first time on Monday. Torch song karaoke: probably not gonna happen.
You’ll have already wrung three days out of this weekend. Here’s an excuse for a fourth: Fat Tuesday. Or more specifically, the NOLA-inspired drinks that McClellan’s Retreat is turning out all night. Like Sazeracs, Vieux Carrés, hurricanes in the punch bowl and absinthe frappés. Yup, absinthe frappés.
