Opening/Re-opening: Chez Billy Sud’s Wine Bar, Glover Park Hardware, Bangkok Joe’s, T.J. Maxx


More businesses are opening in Georgetown, some completely new and others simply redesigned and improved.

Bar à Vin

Bar à Vin will open Monday, March 7, at 1035 31st St. NW, next to and part of French restaurant Chez Billy Sud. The wine bar will feature an extensive list of mostly French wines and will be open from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Brothers Eric and Ian Hilton, who own the 31st Street places began the original Chez Billy in Petworth. opened the bar to be an expansion to their restaurant in addition to serving wine enthusiasts. A fireplace in one of the rooms accentuates the comfort and coziness the owners are hoping to cultivate.

Glover Park Hardware

Glover Park Hardware owners Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman reopened a new 7,500-square-foot location at 2233 Wisconsin Ave. NW on Feb. 25, taking the place of the neighborhood hardware store that closed in January of 2015. The store is in the lower front level, next to the bar, Breadsoda. After losing its lease after 10 years, the business left its old location at 2251 Wisconsin Ave. NW, which now houses a Rite Aid. The store’s general manager is Noe Delgado, who began working at since 2010.

T.J. Maxx

On March 3, clothing discounter T.J. Maxx will celebrate a grand re-opening, with a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for 7:30 a.m. The store will be open from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. — the first 1,000 customers will receive reusable bags. At 3222 M St. NW since, the store is expanding into space previously shared with Home Goods, a T.J. Maxx company.

Bangkok Joe’s

Bangkok Joe’s, a Thai favorite on the waterfront for 10 years, announced on Feb. 25 that it will return in March to its old location at 3000 K St. NW, where the short-lived Mama Rouge restaurant used to be. Both restaurants are owned by chef Aulie Bunyarataphan and proprietor Mel Oursinsiri, and while Mama Rouge offered an Asian/French fusion menu, Bangkok Joe’s will return to a more traditional Thai menu. Old favorites like the dumpling bar will still be on the menu, complemented by new creations.

This article was updated March 2.

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