Metro Weekly | Passion Plate Ahead of Dining Out for Life, Chef Jamie Leeds talks about her culinary joys and growing her epicurean empire of Hank's Oyster Bar and Commonwealth Gastropub. View Full Article Cheers | Capital Options Ahead of Dining Out for Life, Chef Jamie Leeds talks about her culinary joys and growing her epicurean empire of Hank's Oyster Bar and Commonwealth Gastropub. View Full Article Upscale Bangers and Mash | Tom Sietsema Charcuterie plates tend to show off shopping, rather than cooking, skills. With few exceptions, most restaurants are comfortable putting out a plate of sliced cured meat, a few gherkins and some bread and calling it a day. View Full Article DINING: Un-Commonwealth | The Washington Times Pubs are ubiquitous in the British Isles, with names harking to royalty like the Duke of Cambridge, the King's Arms, the Rose and Crown and more plebeian ones such as the Goat and Compass or Slug and Lettuce. View Full Article Pub Bub | Daily Candy Four score and 152 years ago, we kicked Britain's ass. They've been trying to come back ever since. (Nice try, Spice Girls.) But CommonWealth, the new Columbia Heights gastropub from Jamie Leeds (Hank's Oyster Bar), may just be their ticket. View Full Article The British invasion is back | Metromix So you've always had a thing for toad in a hole, or bangers and mash. If you're nodding your head and salivating, then you know all about the wonders of British cuisine and if you haven't, get ready to step into the world of Washington's first British gastropub. View Full Article Eating Out: It's bright lights, big cities and new openings in America | The Independent UK With recent openings including a gastropub, steakhouse and upmarket brasserie, the restaurant scene in America's major cities is as lively as ever. View Full Article A Wealth of British Fare at New Gastropub | ZAGAT Located in burgeoning Columbia Heights, CommonWealth, which opens on Wednesday, will be a midpriced British gastropub from Jamie Leeds (Hank's Oyster Bar) offering dishes with a decided English accent - black pudding, steak and oyster (or smoked tofu) pie, mushy peas. View Full Article Not Your Common Pub Grub | The Onion CommonWealth is not Washington, D.C.'s first gastropub, but it is the first one to take on British airs, which is only appropriate. View Full Article Leed-ing the charge | Washington Business Journal The doors to new Columbia Heights upscale pub fare restaurant CommonWealth had barely been open long enough to get fingerprints on the door when Chef and Owner Jamie Leeds started dishing a side of philanthropy with those fish and chips. View Full Article Coming Attractions: Fine Food, Great Wine and Cupcakes | The Washingtonp Post If anyone knows neighborhood restaurants, it's Jamie Leeds. The chef's Hank's Oyster Bar locations have become beloved institutions in both Dupont and Old Town Alexandria. During the first week of August, she'll open CommonWealth, a British-gastropub-inspired restaurant in Columbia Heights, the neighborhood she's called home for the last six years. View Full Article When Life Gives You Produce, Make Pickles | The Washingtonp Post Pickling is also a way for cooks to get creative, notes chef Jamie Leeds of Hank's Oyster Bar and the newly opened CommonWealth in Columbia Heights. View Full Article     1400 Irving St NW, Washington DC 20010 | 202-265-1400 | Copyright 2008 CommonWealth