The Hyattsville Wire has announced the winners of the second annual Best of Route 1 reader poll. The results show just how much the area is changing, especially the local dining scene, which is rapidly turning the Route 1 corridor into … Continue reading →

The Route 1 corridor’s first meadery should have its inaugural batches ready by the end of summer. Maryland Meadworks, which has been setting up shop in the space next to  just south of downtown Hyattsville, needs to have its final Use … Continue reading →

A group of local musicians, artists and craft brewers will meet Saturday for a live music event in downtown Hyattsville showing how the area has reached a critical mass. The first-ever HyFest will be held at the new Polka Dot … Continue reading →

Hyattsville businesses are riding a retro trend popular among hip enclaves across the United States: handpainted signs. Once the dominant form of retail signage, handpainted business names and murals dropped in popularity in the mid 20th century as mass-produced signs … Continue reading →

Denizens Brewing Co. is coming to Riverdale Park, adding to the growing Route 1 microbrew and distilling scene. The popular Silver Spring brewery will bring its second location to a 12,000-square-foot space Riverdale Park Station, the mixed-use development anchored by … Continue reading →

Hyattsville’s newest brewery is getting closer to opening. Streetcar 82 Brewing Co. has just received four seven-barrel fermenting tanks, a seven-barrel brite tank and a 3.5-barrel brewhouse system, meaning it will be ready to start brewing beer soon. “The construction has pretty … Continue reading →

Ken Carter is getting ready to bring mead to Hyattsville. The founder of Maryland Meadworks has launched a Kickstarter to raise the last $10,000 he needs to open the meadery along Route 1. (As of Sunday night, he’d raised roughly … Continue reading →