Resilient.

Like no other in the National Harbour... are there more there?

Timothy Dean is a great chef and I wish him all the best. I'm sure his new venture will take the DC metro area by storm

Sounds more and more like someone's leaving town. Or Chef is becoming a chain.

What is the National Harbor? That should probably be in the oxymoron post since it's probably not a harbor for the nation. If I were to guess, it's some fakey fake Harbor Place built in some former industrial cesspool. Just a guess. Now with JAZZ!

National Harbor is a 'new town' being built on the Potomac in Prince George's county, below the Wilson Bridge, more or less across from Mount Vernon.

it's some fakey fake Harbor Place built in some former industrial cesspool

You're half correct there OMG, however it was once a large wetland, forested, pristine, bald eagle nesting, last remaining piece of undeveloped prime real estate on the Potomac just outside of the DC beltway. I remember because I went to high school in Oxon Hill and would drive up the road next to Oxon Hill Manor. The project has been stalled for a few awhile because of the bald eagle nests. Sigh, another one bites the dust in the name of rebuilding the once mighty dollar.

National harbor is a huge development in lower PG County at the intersection of the DC Beltway and I-295. The main part is the Gaylord hotel/convention center that's sucking all the meeting business out of DC. There are dozens of huge buildings under construction, condos, offices, restaurants, other hotels, marina. The developer even bought the Awakening sculpture by Seward Johnson, a huge hand coming out of the earth, and moved it from Hains Point by barge a couple weeks ago. It's across from Oldtown and there are plans for a water taxi. They'll need it, because all the buildings have a fine view of traffic going 0 MPH on the Wilson bridge at the extended rush hours DC thinks are normal. The water view is nice...but the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant is just north a couple miles and occasionally the usual easterly breezes shift southward. Grace's Fortune is a tenant...there was an effort to get local restaurants to open btanches to localize it so it won't feel like Orlando.

National Harbor? Pearl Harbor? Do they have lots of crab kitsch there?

Lissa asked: Do they have lots of crab kitsch there?

There will be. There will be. And all of it Made in China. [sigh].

National Harbor is a new development featuring a very large restaurant concentration. I have been down there last week, and did not notice, but was not notice a jazz lounge area. I will be back down next week and report back.

Well, since everything else in P.G. County is being foreclosed, I can't imagine National Harbor will buck the trend.

The buildings down there appeared so massive/ornate in the handful of times that I've been over the Wilson Bridge during the past few years, I thought the Crystal Cathedral was building an East coast branch...

So what's the deal with TDean? On the phone, they say they're open. They've apparently been removed from Open Table. What happened with the auction? Anyone actually eaten there lately?

Here's the latest I know. EL

From what I've been told on this blog, restaurants pay a lot of money to have a presence on Open Table--it's not a free service for them.

Speaking of Open Table, I love the new feedback form. We actually enjoyed filling it out, which was even more unusual. I liked the fact that there is a space for comments, and you have the option of giving feedback to the restaurant or not (all anonymously). You can also click a link to say you don't want to receive feedback forms in the future, but you know me--always willing to share my 2 cents worth!