The proposed closing hours for a new restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park has upset a few of the neighborhood’s residents. A group of investors are currently remodeling the former location of Saveur Restaurant, 2218 Wisconsin Ave. (between W and Hall places), for a new “family-style” restaurant called Town Hall. (The image is from Saveur’s Amazon listing) All was going smoothly for the group until some residents got wind the group was hoping to extend Saveur’s liquor license from 11:30 until 2 a.m. on weekdays and 3 a.m. on weekends.

Such a request seems reasonable on a stretch of Wisconsin Avenue that includes a number of restaurants that are open late, a bar/restaurant (Bourbon, which faced its own battles with the neighborhood), and even a pizza joint open until 4 a.m. However, the Current (not online) reported last week that “ten Glover Park residents spoke out against the late-night hours” at the May ANC meeting, listing as concerns “noise, trash, drunkenness and parking problems.” The ANC then voted unanimously to urge the city’s ABC Board to approve a license good until 11:30 p.m. only for the new restaurant.

The news sparked some chatter on a newly organized Glover Park Yahoo Group, where members are making plans to crash the June 9 ANC 3B meeting. Why the resistance to the late hours? We speculate it’s because the Town Hall location happens to be a stone’s throw from Hall Place — a small wealthy enclave of mostly renovated row homes up and around the corner from the local Starbucks. The full article is available here.

Do you think Glover Park can handle more restaurants and bars? Are the neighbors too testy or are the young professionals, including Paris Hilton, consuming the half-urban, half-forested neighborhood?

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