Coffee, cookies, and go-go: Your favorite things made in the District
As part of a promotion last week with Made In The District, we asked readers: What’s your favorite thing made in the District?
Your answers portray a city fertile with creativity —and way more good donuts than we’d realized. (Warning: Don’t read the food section unless you’re about to take a long lunch break, because you’ll want it all.)
Read through to learn more about the products and producers worth tracking in DC.
MUSIC & ARTS
Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens)
Backyard Band’s cover of “Hello” (Adele)
Dear Evan Hansen
Dave Chappelle
Also || District Karaoke, “go-go in general,” Kelly Towles
SHOPPING
Stitch & Rivet bags by Katie Stack
Shirts from Hugh & Crye
Handmade Habitats candles
Also || Caryn Cramer textiles, Julia Walther pottery
FOOD & BEV
Harper Macaw chocolate
Galley Foods
DC Brau
“Manhattans from District Distillery, made with their in-house produced spirits”
Also || Compass Coffee, Uncle Chip’s Cookies, Sugar Shack, pupusas, Gordy’s Bloody Mary Mix, Bluejacket beer, Green Hat Gin, Astro Donuts, “the crepes outside Gallery Place,” Zombie Donuts, Craft Kombucha, ‘Chups, Hippie Crack from Baked & Wired, The Pretzel Bakery
NONPROFITS & ADVOCACY
BUILD Youth Entrepreneurs
Also || “voices! marches! protests!”
OTHER
Capital Bikeshare, “height restrictions” lololol
