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The splashiest restaurant yet to grace the Wharf — Del Mar by Fabio Trabocchi — prompts two visceral responses from customers.

On October 5th, Draken Harald Hårfagre, the world’s largest operating Viking ship, docked at the Wharf's Transit Pier for a 10-day stopover.

From the smartly revitalized Wharf and Navy Yards—where the city’s long-dormant sports scene has been reawakened—to neighborhoods like U Street and Adams Morgan, luring fans to spots like Maydan, which blends Middle Eastern and North African flavors, and to the recent, avant-garde hotel newcomers, it’s the people away from the seat of the Capitol shaping the city today.

The Wharf will include hotels, restaurants, performance spaces, boat slips, a fish market and solar and natural gas power.

If someone turns to Google Maps' transit feature for directional assistance as of this month, it might present the D.C.-area water taxis as an option for getting from point A to point B, as long as the Potomac River lies between those two points.

One place that’s become somewhat of a new go-to hangout spot for us (on non-rainy days, anyway): The District Wharf.

The historic Maine Avenue Fish Market has been the District’s go-to for cooked and raw fish for decades, but things are changing as development at the Wharf continues across the boardwalk and brings new restaurants, residents, and places to play.

Todd Thrasher, a bartender who found regional acclaim in suburban Washington, branches out with a rum distillery at the Wharf in D.C.