The Capital City Diner has been sold to the South Carolina-based company that is developing the Capital City Market, and will be part of a new dining and retail district, the Post reports. more ›

The lot at 1050 Bladensburg Road NE sits empty today. Early Tuesday morning, the inevitable happened when the now-shuttered Capital City Diner was loaded onto a flatbed and transported to an undisclosed location. more ›

The latest rumors about the Capital City Diner moving to Columbia Heights and serving Kosher deli and Asian fusion cuisine are still pure conjecture, the restaurant's founder says. more ›

The Capital City Diner may have found a new owner interested in keeping the popular eatery local. more ›

Lots of people were upset when the Capital City Diner closed in late January. And while the most anyone could walk away with was a last meal and maybe a picture of the iconic diner, now everyone has the chance to own the ultimate memento—the actual diner. more ›

Many people were sad to see the Capital City Diner close its doors last month, but there could be new life for the old diner car on Bladensburg Road on the way. more ›

The Capital City Diner on Bladensburg Road NE announced today that it was closing down. more ›

Is there anything more satisfying than knocking off work a few minutes early and heading to your local pub of choice to soak in a couple rays while downing an ice cold beverage? (Answer: no.) Now you can add the Red Palace to your outdoor drinking itinerary: the H Street bar/concert venue/burlesque joint opened an outdoor space yesterday. more ›

Word that a Denny's was going to fill the space currently occupied by a car lot at the intersection of Bladensburg Road and 17th Street NE spread quickly among local internet-crawlers last Friday afternoon. But opinion about the "Moons Over My Hammy" coming to Ward 5 appears to be evenly split between those pessimistic about a piece of suburbia infringing on the outskirts of the District, and those excited about the new jobs and competition the franchise could create. more ›

According to their Twitter feed, a Capital City Diner employee, Wade, was shot after being robbed 2 blocks away from the restaurant on Bladensburg Road NE last night. The restaurant reports on their Facebook page that the individuals that shot him came into the diner so they have a video of them. The restaurant has turned the video over to MPD. They report the employee that was shot is OK. more ›

A story that broke while you all were preparing for cookouts or catching up on some shuteye has taken a turn for the interesting. To recap: on Monday, Trinidad/H Street/Capitol Hill blog Frozen Tropics was the first to publish images from the security cameras outside the Capital City Diner which depicted Ward 5 Council candidate Kathy Henderson taking down Harry Thomas, Jr. and Kwame Brown campaign signs and replacing them with Adrian Fenty ones. The images, one of which can be seen at right, were supplied by Diner owner Matt Ashburn. more ›

Sometimes, it's just necessary to bask in positivity. And pancakes. more ›

You may already be following the story of the Capital City Diner, a new restaurant planned by Trinidad resident Matt Ashburn (City Paper wrote about it yesterday). Ashburn and his partner, Patrick Carl, bought a Silk City Diner, one of those original 1940s era sleek modular diner buildings, in upstate New York and planned to install it on the site of one of the former used car lots shut recently shut down by Mayor Fenty. Great idea, right? We were definitely intrigued by the news, and had already set up a time for a photographer to go down there this weekend to check the place out. more ›