1300 Rhode Island Avenue, NE in the Rhode Island Plaza building.
Restaurant added live music in June 1953.
After a remodeling, it re-opened as Cafe Celebrity on November 20, 1953. Seating 150.
Uncertain whether the following artists, mentioned as possible future attractions, ever appeared: Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, and Pearl Bailey.
Artists
- Oscar Peterson (1953)
- Cecil Young (1953)
- George Shearing (1953)
1300 Rhode Island Avenue Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia
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Herron, Paul. “On the Town.” Washington Post, June 10, 1953.
Herron, Paul. “On the Town.” Washington Post, November 20, 1953.
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