Last year, DC shelled out about $750,000 to build bright, minimalist, Norwegian-designed outdoor dining platforms for restaurants along 18th Street in Adams Morgan. The 33 participating restaurants were meant to serve as models for what DC’s outdoor dining landscape could look like in the future.

If so, then the future for streateries now doesn’t look too bright.

This fall, just three of the 33 participating restaurants expressed interest in keeping their streateries when the District Department of Transportation conducted a survey. In December, the city will remove all of the dining platforms at a cost of $100,000 and plans to use them to extend sidewalks in the Gallery Place area instead.

The Adams Morgan restaurants are now on their own, and few—if any—plan to attempt to meet DDOT’s

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