The smashed cucumber salad at Carla. | Carla This is Eater’s guide to all the new restaurants, bars, and cafes that have opened in September. If there’s an opening in your neighborhood that we’ve missed, let us know at [email protected]. Adams Morgan: Owner and lifelong Jets fan Chris De Felice brought D.C. a New York sports bar by day and dance club by night this month. The Boogiedown was formerly home to Death Punch (which moved one floor below) and was Bourbon before that. For the storied space’s latest act, the Boogiedown shows sports across 10 TVs to go along with $40 mega-buckets of Bud Light, beer towers, and 10 draft lines. Starting in October, the Boogiedown flips Shibuya Eatery’s former kitchen downstairs into a takeout window that serves chicken biscuits, a la Chick-fil-A, well into the night. 2321 18th Street NW Adams Morgan: Vet D.C. bar owner Bill Thomas (Jack Rose Dining Saloon) and his business partner John Roberts revived the corner that formerly housed Imperial with the late-September opening of Carla, a walk-in hangout full of $11 spritzes and $5 bites all day, with a globe-trotting menu that swings from berbere-spiced chicken skewers to shrimp bao buns. Head up to the roof for rotating DJs and live bands. 2001 18th Street NW  Bloomingdale: The former home of wine bar Etabli has been transformed into Bramble Rye, a chic new neighborhood destination for seafood, vegetables, and house-made breads and charcuterie built around a Marra Forni wood-fired oven. Dogs can turn to salmon poke and roasted chicken and rice on the patio. Chef Jeremiah Brooks and husband Anthony Brooks live right nearby. 84 T Street NW Cleveland Park: Highlands Tavern debuted near the Zoo over Labor Day weekend with brick-oven pizzas, fish tacos, Basque cheesecake. The bi-level bars, including a rare rooftop patio for the neighborhood, feature cocktails made with house-made syrups and 12 taps full of lagers and IPAs. Weekday happy hour includes $6 drafts, $7 margs or Old Fashioneds, and $8 wines, with an affinity for Notre Dame and Washington Commanders football across its 14 TVs. The owners also own Knowles Wine Station in Kensington. 3421 Connecticut Avenue NW Dupont: The subterranean space that formerly housed the saloon Childe Harold, where Bruce Springsteen and the Ramones performed way back when, got a fresh start as First Round Bar Social in mid-September. Happy hour (5 to 7 p.m.) includes $10 pomegranate martinis and $6 Sapporos. Its sibling spots up top, Ko Japanese Dining and Sabai Thai Lao, supply the dishes. Trivia is every Tuesday and Thursday, and karaoke becomes a thing every Wednesday starting in October. Also on tap: matchmaking parties and late-night comedy shows. 1610 20th Street NW Gainesville: Carbonara, the old-school Italian restaurant in Arlington known for its cacio e pepe prepared tableside out of a Parmesan wheel, added a 220-seat counterpart in Gainesville on Wednesday, September 9. The 6,300-square-foot restaurant starts with a pasta-making station up front and a 33-seat bar wrapped in green and black tiles. The dining room, adorned with gold chandeliers and a massive wine wall, features a stage in the back that’s dedicated to a Frank Sinatra tribute band on weekends. 14081 Promenade Commons Street, Gainesville, Virginia\ Foggy Bottom: Ellizabetta La Strega, a sexy, sorta-goth Italian restaurant from advanced sommelier Elli Benchimol (Apéro, La Bohème), opened on Tuesday, September 8, transforming the iconic home of Marcel’s into a moody bar, restaurant, and private dining destination with lunch and dinner out of the gate. 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Georgetown: A decade after its (temporary) debut in Park View, followed by stints in cosmopolitan places like London and Bangkok, roving Thai pop-up Alfie’s finally opened a permanent home in the city that started it all on Wednesday, September 2. Alfie’s chefs Alex McCoy and Justin Ahn plant roots in Georgetown with fine-tuned dishes, natural wines, and just 25 seats. Its first real D.C. location, hidden in an alley next to omakase room Two Nine, spotlights house-made curries made with local seafood, meats, and vegetables; noodle bowls of khao soi; octopus-and-green tomato gazpacho with fig leaf; and cockles with chile jam, ’nduja, and holy basil, plus sides of sticky rice served in Ziploc bags. 1228 1/2 31st Street NW  Georgetown: Located in the same courtyard as Alfie’s, Flora Pizzeria debuted earlier this month with cacio e pepe pies that can be ordered whole (18-inch) or by the slice to go along with Caesar salads and meatball sandwiches. Flora also has a stall in the downtown food hall, the Square. 1228.5 31st Street NW Georgetown: CitizenM debuted its latest D.C. hotel this month, complete with a 24/7 bar and restaurant called CanteenM. 3401 K Street NW Georgetown: Seafood-studded Cafe Tulum opened in early September under the watch of Mexican restaurateur Juan Dracoulis, who envisions his alleyway respite as a plant-filled spot to relax over Mexican small plates with Japanese influences. Cocktails served from the matte-black bar are all built with natural fruits. See: the cucumber basil vodka or spicy watermelon mezcal. 3210 Grace Street NW Palisades: Named for the iconic highway connecting Delhi and Mumbai, N.H. 48 opened in early September with crispy pani puri, vada pav sliders, saag paneer, slow-cooked goat curry, biryani, and all sorts of naan. The color-soaked space comes courtesy of Indian hospitality vets Prady Rana and Bhakti More. 4828 Macarthur Boulevard NW Rosslyn: Bullfrog Bagels joined the Ghostburger food hall stall at Upside on Moore in late September. Ghostburger builds breakfast sandwiches with the bagels, or customers can order them solo. 1700 N. Moore Street, Arlington, Virginia ...read more read less