President Barack Obama may crave Ben’s Chilli Bowl, but for his fellow Chicagoans, The Plain White T’s, it’s all about Potbelly sandwiches.
Playing at what could be Washington’s most intimate music venue, the Gibson Guitar loft in Chinatown, the T’s (they of “Hey There Delilah” fame) munched on pork belly sliders from Commonwealth restaurant before an acoustic show hosted by MIX 107.3 personality Tommy McFly. But they admitted to Yeas & Nays that beyond the politics and the monuments this city’s top offering has to be the Potbelly sandwich.
“We love the 9:30 Club and we love Potbellys,” Tom Higgenson told us of their stops in town. Oh and of course President Obama. “Forgot he lives here now,” he told us.
Their lack of political savviness, McFly joked, is something unusual, as opposed to the usual artists who come to town. “Bono should have a loft here in Georgetown,” he said.
Also spotted: Jeff Fahey (“Frank Lapidis” from “Lost”) dining at Zentan, the brand-new restaurant at the Donavan House hotel on Thomas Circle Tuesday night. A source tells us he’s been staying at the hotel for two weeks.
And former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Brookings Institution head Strobe Talbott dined together at the Oval Room Monday night.
