{"id":1497,"date":"2016-02-10T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:38:15","slug":"declaration-is-dcs-new-politically-themed-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/declaration-is-dcs-new-politically-themed-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration Is DC\u2019s New Politically-Themed Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"deck\">The Shaw eatery opens with pizzas fashioned after the original colonies.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The same restaurateur who brought us presidentially-themed eateries\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolnrestaurant-dc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/teddyandthebullybar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy &amp; the Bully Bar<\/a>\u00a0has created another edible ode to American politics:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2015\/04\/03\/dcs-next-presidential-themed-restaurant-is-called-declaration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Declaration<\/a>, now open in Shaw. The 52-seat restaurant from\u00a0<b>Alan Popovsky\u00a0<\/b>pays homage to the founding fathers with thin-crust pizzas (why not?), which represent the 13 colonies that declared independence in 1776\u2014not ironically, the same square footage of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">PRG Hospitality executive chef\u00a0<b>Demetrio Zavala<\/b>\u00a0designed the pies with toppings that represent each former colony, such as sliced tomatoes and pesto for New Jersey, or a Thanksgiving-style pie for New Hampshire (turkey confit, cranberries, maple gravy). The kitchen also translates a few historical recipes for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/15128-presscdn-0-60.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Declaration-Menu.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">the menu<\/a>, such as an Italian riff on a colonial-era dough boy, as well as iconic dishes (cheesesteak, wings). As for the diner\u2019s inalienable right to be choosy: gluten-free crusts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2016\/02\/09\/declaration-open-pizza-shaw-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article about Declarations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shaw eatery opens with pizzas fashioned after the original colonies. The same restaurateur who brought us presidentially-themed eateries\u00a0Lincoln\u00a0and\u00a0Teddy &amp; the Bully Bar\u00a0has created another edible ode to American politics:\u00a0Declaration, now open in Shaw. The 52-seat restaurant from\u00a0Alan Popovsky\u00a0pays homage to the founding fathers with thin-crust pizzas (why not?), which represent the 13 colonies that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[158,168,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-pizza","category-washington-dc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Declaration.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9buia-o9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}