When's It Opening?

• We've been emailing management at Wagamama for weeks now, trying to get an official update on when (or whether) their Penn Quarter outpost would be opening.  We have yet to get a response.  Though we reported they were testing menus a few months ago, the folks at Prince of Petworth snapped a picture here which reveals that... absolutely no progress has been made inside the building.

Boston has a Wagamama - why can't we?!?

• Grand Trunk, Indiana Avenue's forthcoming 24/7 South Asian-American fast food restaurant, continues to announce via their window placards that they'll be opening "Winter 2012."  We stopped by this weekend and found that very little progress had been made. The main part of the space has been blocked off from public view, but the window bays are filled with trash.

• And what of the old Hot Potato Cafe space on E between 6th and 7th?  Though we had heard rumblings that it was to become a pizza place, last time we stopped by, the old menus hadn't even been removed yet:

• Other establishments we're waiting on?  
• Del Frisco's Grille, which has shown signs of development, and as far as we can tell is still slated for Summer 2012; 
• Daikaya, still a hole in the ground and now plagued with a stop work order; 
• Townhouse Restaurant and Wine Bar (we haven't seen a lot of development there but we're still told Spring 2012); 
• Local Vine Cellar (now slated for an April 2012 opening); 
• Dangerously Delicious Pies (also April 2012); 
• Red Apron Butchery (fall 2012); 
• Fuel Pizza (we're hoping this month, but we haven't heard back from management yet); 
• The Art of Spyn (also slated for this month); 
• District Taco (making developments, we're told Spring 2012); and
• TJ Maxx (April 22nd)