Beer Paradise Coming to Logan Circle in April

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WHILE THE BRICKSKELLER might claim to have the largest beer selection in all the land, a new restaurant venture slated for 14th Street NW near Logan Circle is angling to have the best slate of brews in the city.

In April, the yet-to-be-named sixth restaurant of the Northern Virginia-based Neighborhood Restaurant Group — which owns Tallula in Arlington's Lyon Park and Rustico in Alexandria — is scheduled to open its doors in the space formerly occupied by Dakota Cowgirl near Rhode Island Avenue, as The Post's Tom Sietsema reports.

Rustico's Frank Morales will helm the kitchen of the new restaurant, while his beer director, Greg Engert, plans to offer 500 labels, 100 styles and 50 draft beers there. Engert tells The Post: "It won't be a cattle call of beer." Translation: "No Miller Lite" and the like. One lambic beer will even be served from a champagne cart.

With the opening of the wine-centric Cork a few blocks to the north last week, that stretch of 14th Street is rapidly developing into a destination for drinks of all stripes.

» "Dish" [WaPo]