The ever-expanding Columbia Heights neighborhood is getting a British-inspired restaurant from the partners behind Hank’s Oyster Bar this summer. Slated for a late July opening, Jamie Leeds's and Sandy Lewis’s CommonWealth, in the Highland Park building on Irving Street, will be an English pub.
With 150 seats, a 30-seat private dining room, and an outdoor patio, the restaurant will serve British classics such as bangers and mash, sticky toffee pudding, and, not surprisingly, fish and chips.Architect Eric Gronning, who also worked on the brick-covered design of Hank’s, plans to create a traditional but eco-friendly pub atmosphere, complete with reclaimed-wood accents. Envisioning CommonWealth as a neighborhood hangout, the owners are aiming to draw in Anglophiles with top-shelf British beers, televised U.K. soccer matches, and Brit pop on the sound system.
With 150 seats, a 30-seat private dining room, and an outdoor patio, the restaurant will serve British classics such as bangers and mash, sticky toffee pudding, and, not surprisingly, fish and chips.Architect Eric Gronning, who also worked on the brick-covered design of Hank’s, plans to create a traditional but eco-friendly pub atmosphere, complete with reclaimed-wood accents. Envisioning CommonWealth as a neighborhood hangout, the owners are aiming to draw in Anglophiles with top-shelf British beers, televised U.K. soccer matches, and Brit pop on the sound system.
