Oya

• “We don't eat out that often, but the last 2 times we have gone out for lunch it's been to a restaurant called Oya for bimimbop, my new favorite dish in the whole world.”

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• “Popovsky is using the designer behind trendy Oya and Sei in Penn Quarter, Maggie O'Neill, to transform the staid interior left by Il Mulino into a "bright space" incorporating a contemporary log cabin motif using a million pennies.”

  The Washington Post: Lincoln on the Menu for February

• “Wright's Imperial Hotel was a massive, elaborate cave of brick and local Oya stone with a romantic overlay of exotic detail.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why One Remained Standing

• “Oya restaurant is noisy on a Thursday night, but Rosen Singleton and Hlibok, who are deaf, communicate by signing or reading lips anyway.”

  The Washington Post: What sign-language interpreters make of the likes of Lady Gaga and Bon Jovi

• “Well-versed dancers can feel the spirits of Oshun and ancient women collecting water alongside the Niger Delta, the passion of Oya and Shango's love affair and the graceful force of the omnipresent Yemaya.”

  The Huffington Post: Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop

• “Terrence Howard lunching at Oya Thursday with his daughter and three others.”

  The Washington Post: Hey, isn't that...?: Terrence Howard, Shaun White, Richard Simmons

• “In her ideal cyberworld, "if you Google something, it shouldn't pick up blogs," the District's first lady reasons from the corner booth at Oya, the stylishy mod Penn Quarter restaurant that has become her lunchtime favorite.”

  The Washington Post: Michelle Fenty's battle cry in D.C. mayoral campaign that brought her to tears

• “At 40, her slim, yoga-toned figure and flat-ironed hair fit nicely into the magazine format, and she turns heads as she walks into Oya wearing a black jacket by Italian fashion designer Alidio Michelli.”

  The Washington Post: Michelle Fenty's battle cry in D.C. mayoral campaign that brought her to tears

• “I also enjoyed how Messerer beefed up the mythology of the film by interweaving the story of the first vampire, Oya, into the plot.”

  The Vampire Diaries Part 1: Thicker Than Water (2008)

• “The characters constantly break the third wall to announce things like "Oya cries" or "I walk in like a cat in the jungle ready to pounce.”

  Archive 2010-02-01

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