Word on the street is that Spike Mendelsohn, one time Top Chef contestant and current chef/owner of Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill, has purchased the 40 year old Greek Taverna, and is closing it down to re-open it as a pizzeria later this summer.
I have mixed feelings about this... for one thing, service at Taverna was unbelievably slow, making it almost impossible to sit down for lunch in the main dining room. But I always enjoyed the carryout in the basement. Taverna was also, in my opinion, rare on the hill in that you could go in on a Thursday night to the bar and quietly have a few beers and some decent food without the 'scene' pervasive to the other nearby establishments.
I think what irks me the most, is that a business that has been open for 40 years on Capitol Hill is being replaced by a man who made denegrating remarks about the community he was moving into to start his Good Stuff Eatery when it opened last year - a restaurant which by all accounts is mediocre.
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Good Stuff Eatery is way more than mediocre. Burgers are overcooked, not to mention usually made wrong; the fries are always soggy; milkshakes are usually half melted and warm; and the best part is the place is unsanitary. Granted my boyfriend went back a few months after they opened and experience a long wait for an overcooked burger, soggy fries, and a bottle of water for roughly $20.
My first and last experience occurred when they first opened. I watched the lady taking the money and the pagers from random people use her UNWASHED hands to riffle through the burgers in order to check what they were for waiting patrons. Not to mention that place has incurred a few violations such as keeping raw meat in the back alley.
Mmmm...back alley burgers.
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