The restaurateur who also took over Ted’s Bulletin and Kramerbooks just purchased the restaurant.

Paul Ruppert says a few spots at Third Floor will be reserved for writers.

Already, the owner says that operators have reached out about the space.

Written by DCist contributor Andrew Schneider We had the chance to talk with Paul Ruppert of the Warehouse recently about his plans to open a new wine bar in Columbia Heights, at the corner of 11th and Lamont Street NW, in the old 11th Street Deli space (first reported by the Prince of Petworth). With 28 seats on an open-air patio and 15 seats inside, the casual bar will serve wine, desserts, cheese, and charcuterie,…

We told you about the sad news earlier this week that Warehouse will be shuttering its music venue, as well as the bar and cafe, come July 30, when the entire place will close for a month for vacation. Now the Warehouse has let us know it is looking for potential investors and advisers who can help draft not-for-profit status paperwork — depending on which route they end up taking. If you can help them…

The curtain over the Warehouse Arts Complex that we’ve watched being pulled down by enormous tax hikes and aggressive developers around the new Convention Center is, sadly, finally scheduled to fall, at least in part. City Desk reports today that the Warehouse Next Door, site of off-the-wall, sometimes experimental music events, as well as the Bar & Cafe will close for good on July 30. The venue takes its usual summer break over August, and…

Former Editor-in-Chief Ryan Avent writes a weekly column about neighborhood and development issues. You have to love the really idiosyncratic corners of a city. The hundred year-old oddities with rich histories and lovely faces that look wholly out of place amid more recent arrivals. The Warehouse Theater is just such a place. Sitting quiet and unassuming on a small stretch of 7th Street NW near the hulking new Washington Convention Center, the Warehouse has been…

Earlier this week we heard some terrible news for one of our favorite venues in the city. Warehouse Arts Complex, located on the developing 7th Street corridor near the Convention Center, was greeted with a property tax bill over 500% what they paid last year. The concert venue, art gallery, theater, screening room, and cafe/bar serves the arts community in more ways than any location outside the Kennedy Center, but this kind of work isn’t…

Photo by Samer Farha We already gave you the quick and dirty. In summary: DCist Exposed was, we’ll oh-so-humbly claim, a resounding success. Of course, with talent like this and a fantastic venue like Warehouse, it would have been impossible to go wrong. We’re overwhelmed with the wonderful things you’ve had to say about the show, and more importantly, the awe expressed at such hidden talents we had lurking in our city. DCist will no…