Two months after he suddenly closed his beloved Capital City Diner, owner Matt Ashburn says he’s close to a deal to sell the historic diner to a group that would keep it in the District — apparently not far from its original site in the Trinidad neighb... »
7.18.10courtesy of Paige Weaver I’ve been trying to come to terms with this all day. I’ve been sitting on this post for a few hours, but it seems right now to post it. Since we moved to Brookland, our weekend haunt has been the beautiful steel diner on... »
It didn’t take long for the new Denny’s on Bladensburg Road NE to impact Capital City Diner, the historic 1940s-era diner that owner Matt Ashburn bought off eBay for $20,000 and dragged down from Avoca, N.Y. to his underserved Trinidad neighborhood. Re... »
Two months after he suddenly closed the Capital City Diner, owner Matt Ashburn said he is close to finalizing a deal to sell the diner to a group that would keep it in the District, The Washington Post reports. Ashburn put the 1940s-era diner up for sa... »
