Cookie's Corner is now open!
It's on the LeDroit Park side of Second Street NW, but I'm guessing the sister bodega to Simon Matehme's
LeDroit Park Market will have plenty of customers from Bloomingdale, especially with
Parker Flats just across the street.
It's very neat and tidy inside, with plenty of stand-up counter space in the square bay window for folks who want to eat their meals there, and there's a fair selection of sundries available.
No beer or wine is currently being sold, presumably as they're still working on the licensing, but hopefully in the future, it will be available as well. Looks like beer and wine is also for sale, though the license is presumably for off-premise consumption.
Only had time to go in and snap a photo, but I'll try and get the full menu online tomorrow.
8 comments:
Thanks for posting this! I went by right after I read it, and it looks quite nice inside -- I'm a bit disappointed still that they felt the need for bullet-proof glass, but it is about as nice/non-sketchy looking as a glassed-off register and kitchen could be.
They also did have beer and wine in stock when we went by, but it looks like that was also the case in your photo and I didn't try to buy any, so I'm not sure if we'd actually have been able to purchase it. At least it's in the works, and it looks like they've got a nice selection of interesting beer (as opposod to our closest bodega, which has only a variety of MadDog 20/20).
This seems just slightly better then the mini marts around the neighborhood.
I'll keep giving my business to Windows Cafe on Rhode Island & 1st NW. The owner there is always friendly, there is no bullet proof glass, and it really seems to be doing well.
johndc, ditto on the second part.
Awesome! This one looks nice. I frequent all of our corner stores because they have been providing essentials to our neighborhood for years!
What is with you people and bullet proof glass? This is not as safe a neighborhood as you'd like to believe. Why can't people have good service AND bulletproof glass? At least they're investing in the neighborhood. If ALL of us help improve the neighborhood then hopefully soon there won't be a need. However, I think that crime statistics show that there definitely still is a need. Optimism is great, but not when it is disguised as stupidity.
It's funny, I've lived in the neighborhood for over two years now & haven't had any problems .... I think the shops should start to reconsider the bullet-proof glass. Other places in the area are doing away with it, so it seems (there's the one little shop on T street, and Big Bear Cafe)
I understand why some of the convenience & liquor stores have it (they are more likely to get robbed in any neighborhood) but overall, I think our area is pretty safe, with the exception of some bored unrulely teens during the summer months
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7QgKzwFJJs
July 1, 2006: Maurice Darnaby
Patricia Davis vowed she would never go to a funeral for one of her students.
As a D.C. schoolteacher, and over her 38 years as an educator, she declined a lot of them.
But then Maurice "Moe" Darnaby was killed, and a week later she found herself at First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Landover, along with 700 other mourners.
Darnaby, 35, whom she taught in second grade and hadn't seen since, was raised by a single mother in Southeast Washington. He realized his dream of being a D.C. business owner in 2004, when he opened A & L Market in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in Northwest.
He was killed in the store at closing time, shot during an apparent robbery. Detectives have not made an arrest and are investigating the case.
Darnaby worked at the store 12 hours a day, six days a week. He regularly dispensed advice to young people and would let customers buy on credit if they were short on cash.
He was married to Allison Darnaby, his high school sweetheart, and died just shy of their 11th wedding anniversary. The couple had two daughters, Brianna, 8, and Amirah, 6.
"We never thought this would happen to us," his wife said. "We thought we would grow old together."
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