I have finished about 60 percent of my walk up Rhode Island Avenue and, as I am fairly house bound this week, I thought it would be good to look back at a few of the places I mentioned over the past few days, but perhaps gave short shrift to.

I will start with Maryland Meadworks:

Maryland Meadworks: “Our meads range from sweet to semi-sweet to dry. We offer both still and sparkling mead varieties and will have up to eight meads on tap in the tasting room. We produce traditional mead as well as exciting new varieties that incorporate fruit, herbs, spices and other natural flavors such as coffee, tea, and hops.”

Open mic night this Thursday, live music on Friday, karaoke on Saturday and an Irish brunch on Sunday.

Sang-Froid Distilling:

“For our seasonal brandies, we use heirloom fruits from our own orchard in western Maryland, we forage for wild fruit, and we purchase fruit from Maryland and Pennsylvania farms……..For our whiskeys and gins, we source our grains from Maryland farms.”

The location in Hyattsville is a cocktail bar, retail store and pickup location. Open only Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Streetcar 82 Brewing Co.:

“As a deaf-owned business,  we have the support of a large deaf community because of our proximity to Gallaudet University……Many of our regulars will respond to us in ASL.”

Seafood Boss owns a chain of food trucks that roam the area and ten years ago, they started a restaurant with a large outdoor space, in Brentwood. Rated 4.9 on Google. Obviously,  Black owned.

Zeke’s Coffee:

“At Zeke’s, we use an environmentally friendly Loring coffee roaster, which uses 80 percent less energy than your typical roaster… We roast in small batches. It guarantees freshness. Our roaster holds 25 pounds of coffee, compared to the 150 pounds that a standard roaster holds.”

And……

remember streetcar Line 82. Line 82 started on 5th and G NW DC, and then paralleled Rhode Island Avenue all the way to College Park. It stopped running in 1958, 66 years ago. Progress is not all it’s cracked up to be.

And that’s the rest of the story.