Sometimes, it’s just necessary to bask in positivity. And pancakes.

In three weeks, and if everything goes well, the Capital City Diner at 1050 Bladensburg Road NE — which looks just like the kind of place that welcomes you with open arms and says, “come, bask in the syrupy smells, the endless cups of coffee, and the door-opening ethos of good food and good people” — will open. The public got its first peek at the diner’s interior at a special open house yesterday. Neighbors from surrounding Trinidad and Carver-Langston were popping in all day, many applying for jobs, all of them salivating over the menu.

Matt Ashburn and Patrick Carl, the owners who have religiously documented the extensive trials, tribulations, and discoveries of the process of opening a new restaurant on Twitter, have done their best to recreate that Utopian community diner of yore. The building itself was likely built in 1947 by the Paterson Vehicle Company of Paterson, NJ, and delivered to it’s original location in New York two years later. The pictures on the wall are similarly historical documents of D.C. and Ashburn’s childhood memories of his family’s grocery in Virginia. With the classic register ringing, the fountain, and the classic tiling and metal work, the whole place just feels right.

Like any good diner, Cap City will be open 24/7 from Friday to Sunday, with generous hours every other day except Monday. Breakfast and happiness served all day.

Geoffrey Hatchard and Jaime Fearer contributed to this report.