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Washington Business Journal WASHINGTON DC - Whisk Group is opening their first restaurant in Washington DC in an award-winning building. 1099 New York Avenue, NW, Washington DC won the award for New Office Development presented by Washington Business Journal in May 2009. The building was also a runner up in the...

DC Luxury He’s the architect who designs DC’s most award-winning and, yes, fully booked restaurants. But don’t begrudge Peter Hapstak the line at the door. Your table (and the chic surrounds) will be well worth the wait By Alexa Yablonski | Portraits by Malek Naz Freidouni Peter Hapstak is a man obsessed. With...

Press Release Washington, DC (September 9, 2009)—Whisk Group LLC, a new boutique hospitality group led by industry veterans and partners Mark Weiss and Bahar Makinaci, announces AGAINN restaurant, opening this October in the award-winning Tishman Speyer building. A modern European-inspired gastropub in the heart of the nation’s capital, AGAINN is a...

ZAGATBUZZ Washington D.C. Edition -by Olga Boikess Mark Weiss honed his hospitality skills overseeing Ritz-Carlton's international operations before launching his own company, the Whisk Group. Its first independent venture, a gastropub called Againn (Gaelic for “with us”), is slated to open next month at 1099 New York Ave. NW, and Weiss took time...

Washington Post, Food -Dish, by Tom Sietsema Move over, Eamonn’s. Watch out, CommonWealth. To hear Mark Weiss describe it, fish and chips and bangers and mash have never had a home in Washington as fashionable as what the entrepreneur is prepared to unveil to the public Oct. 27 at 1099 New York...

URBAN DADDY All this talk about national security of late—loose nukes, rogue states and such—has got us thinking about the security of the things we really cherish. Like freedom, family…and, of course, scotch. Now, in our nation's capital for the first time, we bring you the opportunity to draw a secure perimeter...

DC Modern Luxury Pubs, generally speaking, are about as abundant as politicians in this city. But authentic British inspired gastropubs? That’s another story. The opening of Againn in a glassy office tower near Mt. Vernon Square merges trad Old World ideas with mad modern twists. Savor ale-battered fish and chips, shepherd’s pie and Welsh...

Washingtonian.com by Michael Gaynor Againn (1099 New York Ave., NW; 202-639-9830) bills itself as a “contemporary gastropub,” a place to find great Scotch, traditional British pub cuisine, and more Scotch. Just a few weeks old, Againn has personalized Scotch lockers, where connoisseurs can store bottles of their most prized labels. What do...