(Updated at 2:05 p.m. Wednesday) A boutique and consignment shop on the H Street corridor has moved to a new location, about a block away from its former home.
The Chic Shack opened its doors at 1230 H St. NE with a grand opening celebration on Saturday, according to storeowner Domencia Tyler.
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The shop, which has called 1307 H St. NE home for the last two years, specializes in designer items for resale. It also has an online store with clothes and accessories available for purchase.
Tyler said the new location is not only bigger, but it also is more suitable for retail because it’s on the ground level with a large window out front.
“We’re offering the same things as before, just on a grander scale,” she said. “We still have contemporary, vintage and designer resale items, and we try to have a little bit of everything so anyone can come in and find a piece that works for them.”
The Chic Shack is open Wednesdays through Fridays from 2 to 8 p.m., Saturdays from 12 to 8 p.m. and Sundays from 12 to 6 p.m.
A candy store that bills itself as “a fab café and goblet bar” might open in Union Station in the next few days.
Las Vegas-based Sugar Factory, which specializes in “couture pops” and 60-ounce cocktails in goblets, is looking to open its first D.C. location on the first floor of the train station by Friday, Scott Miller, a partner with the company, said yesterday. But work to prepare the store for its debut might make Monday its first day of business, he said.
“We’re excited,” Miller said. “We think it’s a great demographic [in D.C.] for the concept.”
Sugar Factory is almost ready at Union Station! pic.twitter.com/o1wEeMDrtj
— SUGAR FACTORY (@SugarFactory) September 22, 2015
The store is expected to have 16 seats, but will hold about 30 people. It is slated to be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.
In August 2013, Sugar Factory announced that it would bring a location to Union Station.
“All of our sweet fans can grab our special treats on the go when they are traveling for work or pleasure,” Sugar Factory said in the announcement. “One-of-a-kind candy confections have been created for our new D.C. home that include a signature All-American Couture Pop and White House-inspired gummies.”
Photo via Facebook/Sugar Factory
A candy shop that is under construction in Union Station is looking to get permission to sell 60-ounce cocktails in goblets and other alcoholic beverages.
Las Vegas-based Sugar Factory has applied for a liquor license for its forthcoming location on the first floor of the train station, according to a D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration notice released last week.
The “tavern, candy and retail store” is planning to sell alcoholic drinks, along with ice cream and juice, among other items, the ABRA document says.
Sugar Factory’s cocktails include “Lollipop Passion,” “White Gummi” and “Sunshine Tea,” which are served in 60-ounce goblets. It also has smaller-sized drinks, including a “Cotton Candy Cosmopolitan,” “Blueberry Bikini Martini” and “Sexual Chocolate,” according to its menu.
The store is expected to have 16 seats, but will hold about 30 people. It is slated to be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.
But the opening date of the shop wasn’t immediately clear. A Sugar Factory representative didn’t respond to a request for comment.
In August 2013, the company announced that it would bring a “a fab café and goblet bar” to Union Station that year.
“All of our sweet fans can grab our special treats on the go when they are traveling for work or pleasure,” Sugar Factory said in the announcement. “One-of-a-kind candy confections have been created for our new D.C. home that include a signature All-American Couture Pop and White House-inspired gummies.”
Photo via Sugar Factory
Toki Underground chef Erik Bruner-Yang’s emporium of locally roasted coffee, Asian street food and $800 sneakers has arrived on the H Street corridor.
Maketto, which Bruner-Yang co-owns with menswear designer Will Sharp, opened its doors at 7 a.m. today. The Asian-inspired market at 1351 H St. NE features 5,000 square feet of retail, dining and bar space spanning two levels.
Bruner-Yang said Maketto, which was three years in the making, helps fill a need for H Street: daytime retail and dining.
“As a resident, I wake up in the mornings, and I’m like, ‘What do I do? Where do I go? Where does my family go?” he said. “For a good portion of this whole strip, what is there to do during the day?”
As diners wait to grab a table for Taiwanese fried chicken or Cambodian pork noodle salad, they can have a cocktail or locally roasted Vigilante Coffee at the bar, buy a Japanese toy from a vending machine or peruse a selection of shirts, shoes and other goods.
Prices vary, bringing a “little something for everyone” at Maketto, said Sharp, who owns clothing brand Durkl. Vans, Pumas and the market’s others shoes range from $50 to $800, for example.
Although the name Maketto has a Japanese ring to it, Bruner-Yang joked that it’s a “bullshit word.”
“Just like Toki,” he said.
A new restaurant and store from the owners of Toki Underground now has an opening date.
Maketto will officially open next Friday, April 10, the company announced today.
The “communal marketplace and lifestyle brand” will serve locally roasted Vigilante Coffee and food by James Beard Award-nominated chef Erik Bruner-Yang, who mans the kitchen of Toki Underground. The “streetwear” clothing company DURKL will sell menswear at the 1351 H St. NE space, too.
Anyone who wants to see the shop early can attend the Maketto Housewarming Party this Saturday, April 4. The event co-sponsored by Rock and Roll Hotel will have live music, food and coffee. Tickets cost $25 each and can be bought online.
Photos via Instagram/Maketto
A candy shop that specializes in “couture pops” endorsed by Britney Spears is coming to Union Station.
The Las Vegas-based company Sugar Factory will open a location on the first floor of the train station, as a tipster to Popville spotted.
Sugar Factory will sell glittery lollipops with bedazzled handles ($22-26 each), milkshakes in 32-ounce goblets and White House-inspired gummy candy, company owner Charissa Davidovici told the trade publication Candy Industry.
“Our new East Coast home will have the signature Sugar Factory sweets our fans love, but there will be specific touches to the D.C. location that you cannot get anywhere else,” Davidovici told Candy Industry.
Sugar Factory — which is known for blasting pop music — sells a line of Playboy-endorsed candies, plus the Britney Spears Piece of Me Signature Couture Pop, which runs $26. Kim Kardashian, Nelly and Katy Perry have been spotted with the sweets.
The company did not immediately respond to an inquiry about when the shop is set to open.
Photos via Facebook/Sugar Factory
A shop that sells gourmet biscuits and spices sourced from around the world is set to open next week on 8th Street SE.
The owner of the Barracks Row cupcake and macaron shop The Sweet Lobby will open Souk just a block and a half south on Tuesday morning. With an oversized map on one wall, the 705 8th St. SE store doubles as a spice shop and bakery with global influences, owner Winnette McIntosh Ambrose said at a preview event last night.
“I was very much inspired by global marketplaces I’ve had the opportunity to explore,” she said, noting trips to Southeast Asia and North Africa. “We decided to bring a lot of that influence you see in our other pastries here, too.”
Souk will sell rosemary biscuits, cheddar scallion biscuits topped with Hawaiian black salt, and savory snack sticks in hazelnut thyme, cashew cumin curry and black sesame curry flavors. On the sweet side, they’ll have ginger scones, spice buns with Brie, pear, cardamom and homemade caramel, plus the French pastry canelés, with rum and vanilla bean.
Ambrose is still finalizing prices but said biscuits will likely cost $2.50 or $3 each, and scones will cost $4 each.
Jars of loose spices sold by the ounce line a whole wall of Souk. Shoppers will find crystalized violet, cocoa from Ambrose’s home country, Trinidad and Tobago, and asafoetida — a pungent herb often used in Indian dishes.
Fine Iranian saffron imported from Dubai is among the offerings. The coveted spice runs $15 per gram, which is about $425 per ounce.
“It’s picked by hand and is the highest grade,” she said. “It’s at the same time floral and herbaceous.”
Ambrose, a Hill resident with a doctorate in biomedical engineering, won the Food Network show “Cupcake Wars” in 2012. She opened The Sweet Lobby in 2011.
(Updated at 7:35 p.m.) A men’s clothing store that specializes in slim-fit dress shirts is moving to Navy Yard.
The company Hugh & Crye will open a shop at The Yards next month, management of the Water Street SE development announced this afternoon.
Hugh & Crye, whose name is a reference to medieval England, tweeted a photo of their empty new location, in which The Yards advertising is papered over the windows.
The menswear company started in Dec. 2009 sells shirts that take into account buyers’ height and build, and start at $75 each. Their website breaks down their offerings into “Shirts for Skinny Guys,” “Shirts for Slim Guys,” “Shirts for Athletic Guys” and “Shirts for Broad Guys.” They operate another store at O Street and Wisconsin Avenue NW in Georgetown.
Hugh & Crye did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
Photos via Twitter/PhilipSoriano and Facebook/Hugh & Crye
