SEAN BRANCH GIVES GULLY TV A TOUR OF DC'S LEGENDARY FLORIDA AVE. GRILL

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  • Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
  • SEAN BRANCH GIVES ME A PERSONAL TOUR OF WASHINGTON DC LANDMARK FLORIDA AVENUE GRILL. ONCE IMMORTALIZED IN THE 1980'S CULT CLASSIC DC CAB, FLORIDA AVE WAS THE PREMIERE GATHERING SPOT OF THE HUSTLER ELITE OF THE TIME. LIKE SHARE AND COMMENT THIS VIDEO. FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT SUBSCRIBE TO THE REAL GULLY TV NOW www.youtube.co....
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  • @Liveyourlifeonpurpose_
    @Liveyourlifeonpurpose_ 4 года назад +96

    I’m literally in tears!! Rest sweetly grandma Ophelia AKA Big O. She raised 7 children working her fingers to the bone at that place for 32 years. I’m proud to be named after and raised by this woman. Cut from a different cloth 💪🏽 #dcnative

  • @WallTrapMedia
    @WallTrapMedia 4 года назад +49

    From Chicago, grew up in ATL, visited a lot of major cities in the US, and trust me D.C. is the most underrated city in the USA hands down. We know it's our nation's capital and how important it is to the world but a lot of folks don't really mention D.C. like they do NYC, ATL, CHI, LA, or H-Town as of late because for some reason D.C. never had a wave in hip-hop. But it's by far one of the most amazing cities I've ever visited and I have a passport. It's like London meets Rome meets Africa! Their whole club scene with the hookah lounges is far, better than any nightclub experience. It's more laid back and chill and if you're a single man you will see some of the most beautiful Black women on the planet from East Africans to African-Americans to Caribbeans. I ate at this spot and the food is amazing.

    • @clearyourmind5043
      @clearyourmind5043 4 года назад +8

      I'm from Miami FL and I wouldn't say that D.C. was underrated because in the late 90s we started hearing about D.C. after many years later they were rated the murder capital so to me D.C. had become one of the elite Cities.

    • @KillMoee
      @KillMoee 4 года назад +9

      It’s bc we have gogo. We listen to more gogo than rap 💯

    • @CreativeSTS
      @CreativeSTS 3 года назад +1

      If u grew up in Atlanta that’s where u from. Not Chicago. U just born there

    • @chooselove4307
      @chooselove4307 3 года назад +4

      As far as I know, D.C. been elite and well known since the 80's due to Go-Go, the universities, and the party scene here. D.C. was known as the nation's murder capital in the late 80's to 1991 due to the crack cocaine epidemic, so that made D.C. known in a negative way to most people. The DMV been well known among certain people, but maybe other's was just late hearing about it or were fearful of coming here because of it's past reputation just like some people are fearful of New Orleans because of it's past reputation. Just based off my experience D.C. got ATL, CHI, and H-Town beat when it comes to things to do in the city, the music, clubs, education, and job market for African Americans.

    • @kimberlyblunt
      @kimberlyblunt 3 года назад

      Absolutely

  • @qmqdad6602
    @qmqdad6602 4 года назад +36

    I was watching an interview with King Tone from the Latin Kings and l saw Mr. Branch in the background working with the youth in a juvenile detention facility. Those men deserved to be saluted for trying to help the youth.

    • @lifranchize7325
      @lifranchize7325 4 года назад

      I wonder is they chopped it up ?

    • @qmqdad6602
      @qmqdad6602 4 года назад

      @@lifranchize7325
      They both were working there.

  • @wyattbush1018
    @wyattbush1018 4 года назад +35

    Florida Ave. Grill... LEGENDARY!!! ICONIC!!! ENOUGH SAID.

    • @konversationswitkent
      @konversationswitkent 3 года назад

      My boy owns it now Imar he is in picture at the beginning of this video.

  • @ladimu1
    @ladimu1 4 года назад +25

    Every hood got that one spot everybody used to meet up at. We some social people.

  • @lenaleen
    @lenaleen 4 года назад +19

    Just the autographs on the wall alone are priceless. I bet that food was bussin 😋

  • @felishastillstanding485
    @felishastillstanding485 4 года назад +18

    I love to hear Sean Branch stories seems very authentic, humble and not to be played with . Great content Gully

  • @palmares77
    @palmares77 4 года назад +3

    My Grandaddy Al's favorite spot when he visited us from Cali in the late 70s/early 80s..He been gone since '94...Miss you sir...

  • @BABarockus32
    @BABarockus32 4 года назад +18

    This joint makes me miss home

  • @shallah777
    @shallah777 4 года назад +6

    All those damn gentrifiers taking over DC

  • @Stan0619
    @Stan0619 4 года назад +16

    Gully, that was cold blooded. How you going to cut, before the order and taste review. Was the food good?

    • @lawhisper47
      @lawhisper47 4 года назад +1

      Right he seems to do that, I wanted to know what was Sean favorite food he would ordered there back in the day or what was the best thing there lol just curious

  • @t.j.7786
    @t.j.7786 4 года назад +2

    In the late 80's I used to eat down the Grill as we use to call it....many key players would always eat there was actually the only drama free place in DC you could be sure to enjoy a good meal without any kind of drama day in and day out....this photo brings back sweet memories...

  • @hardcorehenry518
    @hardcorehenry518 Год назад

    I love places like this.. great history & the walls hold alot of great stories.. #Legendary #Respect

  • @slimslide5880
    @slimslide5880 4 года назад +3

    My father use to stay in the joint back then.. I remember eating in there a few times back in the early 90s when I was a young lad💯

  • @ONEPLAYK_
    @ONEPLAYK_ 4 года назад +3

    Every time I come to DC to visit my family I got to go to the legendary Florida Avenue Grill. And hit Bens

  • @staxxafool5666
    @staxxafool5666 4 года назад +7

    My generation go to Steak and Egg, uptown got all the food spots. I’m from SE, shit be a drive too 😂

  • @ccarr625
    @ccarr625 2 года назад

    Sean you just like fine wine you get better with time.Facts100

  • @nonbeliever4593
    @nonbeliever4593 4 года назад +3

    Cinnamon Pancakes 🔥 I ate there plenty times good food good staff legendary feel. Salute GullyTV

  • @laurenj1052
    @laurenj1052 4 года назад +1

    My goodness!!! I wish I could meet Teflon Sean that man is fine❤️

  • @tanyag1200
    @tanyag1200 4 года назад +2

    I haven't been there in years. Shout out to my home DC & Florida Ave Grill.👍🏼
    Be Safe Everyone🌏😷 #Oldschoolspot

  • @winstonrollins6983
    @winstonrollins6983 4 года назад +28

    This is where Rayful got set up at, by the white girl.

  • @tjlo2017
    @tjlo2017 4 года назад +7

    And it’s a table in there where MLK sat and planned his march on Washington speech

  • @rasheenjackson1124
    @rasheenjackson1124 4 года назад +1

    Good interview. You should do one with Sean branch and ears the christ together Chopin up about DC past in the 80's and the present how it changed.

  • @trayonastravels
    @trayonastravels 4 года назад +2

    Continue to sleep beautifully Auntie!! You changed not only Florida Ave by DC. - Ophelia Jones ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @janerwilliams7464
    @janerwilliams7464 3 года назад

    Brings back so many memories

  • @kbayj
    @kbayj 4 года назад

    One thing I can say about the 80s and early 90s is this... being from Oakland,CA a place where THE REAL RICKY ROSS said crack was first invented/tested. The stories of those era's sound the same no matter what city or state you we're in. Me being 37 and growing up in the middle/tail end of the Crack era. It will never be another era like that again. GREAT WORK T.R.G.T. If you haven't came to the Bay yet you should. Keep it going.

  • @tweezyhundreddegreez7241
    @tweezyhundreddegreez7241 4 года назад +1

    Gully with the Skully.. this is a nice piece put together King..👍🏾👍🏾

  • @fenwick401
    @fenwick401 4 года назад +4

    Sean branch a real OG ✊🏽

  • @andrecolbert7821
    @andrecolbert7821 4 года назад +1

    I missed DC...Company of Three was my spot after State of the Union and Republic closed down...DMV will remain in my heart.

    • @eanmuhammad6318
      @eanmuhammad6318 4 года назад

      Yes, indeed. But as BIG said: "Things dun changed."

  • @Kenny78743
    @Kenny78743 4 года назад +7

    Linwood (R. I. P) came up washing cars outside their. You could definitely get plugged in right there. 😎

    •  4 года назад

      You celebrating genocide like it cool; FOH

    • @STUDYALLAH365
      @STUDYALLAH365 4 года назад +1

      Allen Jones dude said plugged in like basically meet all the right people. Pretty sure that’s what he’s talking bout 🤔🧐😂

    • @edmccray
      @edmccray 4 года назад +1

      If I remember right, he got killed on Georgia and Kennedy

    • @dcwashingtonpresident5938
      @dcwashingtonpresident5938 2 года назад +1

      Rip Linwood

  • @herbalremedy100
    @herbalremedy100 4 года назад +1

    Ey all my washingtonians what up... big interview champ... Welcome to D.C (well gentrified) lol... N.E and S.E ✊🏾✊🏾

  • @teeko__6557
    @teeko__6557 4 года назад +1

    Gully keep it authentic. Keep doing what you doing G

  • @uptowndc26
    @uptowndc26 4 года назад

    wow such a master piece of a place growing up in nw dc going and graduating from cardozo this grill has always been there unfortunately i was able to catch the older version but it has always been a staple of the community my grandmother house on 14th and w st i use to always walk pass this grill and new that it was something special about this place as a kid growing up (STEVEN DAVIS)

  • @miajackson41
    @miajackson41 4 года назад +1

    I Went To The Website And Looked At The Menu ~ All I Can Say Is WOW 👍🏽👍🏽

  • @johnathand6211
    @johnathand6211 4 года назад

    Given all the ups and downs places like that are little pieces of America that are still left here. Good to see places like that still thriving with no end it sight.

  • @VANGUARDIANTV100
    @VANGUARDIANTV100 4 года назад

    The FLA Grill was that spot...also on Mt. Pleasant you had Little Giant near Lincoln Jr. High.

  • @tonyedwards1729
    @tonyedwards1729 2 года назад

    True that that correct a comment from peezy23 on here mention that gogo was a backdrop for rap within the early to mid 80s in NYC, with rap artists like LL Cool J and Salt-Pepper you mention. But it was even more than before that time that NYC was digging that DC Gogo beat from DC with one of the earliest beginners of the NYC Hip-hop and Rap Game, "Kurtis Blow" between the late 70s and early 80s he being the 1st Rap Superstar sign to a major recording labor, check out his GoGo and Rap tune, "I'M CHILLIN", that was huge in the 80s, NYC Rapper. So yes you're right DC was already in the Mix before those other cities you mention as they all later jumped aboard that NYC Hip-hop and Rap Game.

  • @chooselove4307
    @chooselove4307 4 года назад +1

    Gully, please ask Sean Branch to do more longer interviews or ask him to seriously consider doing a movie. I want to know more about his life from back in the day, his adjustment back into society, and what he is doing now. He has been the most interesting out of all these guys that you talk to, and none of his interviews are longer than 25 minutes.

  • @seanwinsett7549
    @seanwinsett7549 4 года назад +1

    I use 2 hang up the street from there on 13th amd park road and CAVALIER APTS on 14th street miss them days good money and good times back then

    • @seanwinsett7549
      @seanwinsett7549 4 года назад +1

      Been looking at ur work 4 a long time brotha love what u doing keep up the GREAT work

  • @theamplesamples
    @theamplesamples 3 года назад

    Dope. One of our founder's college classmates owns The Grill

  • @lenaleen
    @lenaleen 4 года назад +4

    And yes dig in the vault and quit bein stingy with the quarantine content. I need more 🤣

  • @bulldogtv188
    @bulldogtv188 4 года назад +2

    somebody call @50cent we need a series of this dude

  • @devonlewis3463
    @devonlewis3463 4 года назад +2

    You have a nice show keep up the good work

  • @rw8990
    @rw8990 4 года назад +1

    We used to leave the go go at the Masonic Temple and stop by the grill they had the good turkey bacon,raisin toast,cheese grits,eggs,man I miss those days.

    • @IshtarLinqu
      @IshtarLinqu 4 года назад

      Joey Joey Joey Joey Joey ! The Police man's at the door.

    • @IshtarLinqu
      @IshtarLinqu 4 года назад

      Black hole days

  • @banks5162
    @banks5162 4 года назад

    Damn, it was a picture of Whistle up that joint. We're only buggin......lol

  • @grimeyfoe3898
    @grimeyfoe3898 4 года назад +1

    Right on time!

  • @morakant7864
    @morakant7864 4 года назад +1

    I love the way the old grill food was looking 👍

  • @thebrickz2793
    @thebrickz2793 4 года назад

    Yo Gully this interview with Sean is right on

  • @lamontphelps9563
    @lamontphelps9563 4 года назад

    Best food in the world! Been going since a youngin! NE FOR LIFE!

  • @panamaworldwideinvestments
    @panamaworldwideinvestments 4 года назад +2

    Yo, uno never order a plate? Did waan see the food still.

  • @smokeafatj561_yt3
    @smokeafatj561_yt3 4 года назад +2

    Let's get it

  • @DemZoesDuhh
    @DemZoesDuhh 4 года назад +2

    Dope 🔥

  • @lordkcb
    @lordkcb 4 года назад +5

    U Street baby....have homie show you a good evening

  • @KVAA10
    @KVAA10 4 года назад

    Legendary man right by the towers. Used to get breakfast there all the time

  • @ChasePhoenix
    @ChasePhoenix 4 года назад

    I remember this spot. It’s no where from Howard University. Used to stroll by it all the time on my way to 16th Street.

  • @lucjanbaird7348
    @lucjanbaird7348 3 года назад +1

    Love to c all the African Americans photos on the wall bet nowhere else in the country u can c that legendary

  • @morakant7864
    @morakant7864 4 года назад +4

    I've seen Dr Tisha Lewis on the wall of fame 👍

  • @alprofit
    @alprofit 4 года назад +1

    Dope piece. Real history

  • @ucheodunzeh6243
    @ucheodunzeh6243 4 года назад

    Rare essence i see yall

  • @blackskins9227
    @blackskins9227 4 года назад

    I was born 2 doors next to this place in 1985...across from Garfield terrance

  • @OrmazdYahu
    @OrmazdYahu 4 года назад

    *Damn moe, they done exposed the secrets of a UPT nigga! I see you Gully.* 💯💪🏿

  • @ThaFlockers443
    @ThaFlockers443 4 года назад +12

    Look who in there now that gentrification hit the Chocolate City bad lol

    • @goku92son4
      @goku92son4 4 года назад +1

      Yep, a lot of DC is getting gentrified. They are building up in the rough parts of Southeast.

    • @kingroyalty-thelion1776
      @kingroyalty-thelion1776 4 года назад +1

      @@goku92son4 DC is going to be DC for years to come the mayor and the federal government passed a bill all new-developers must accept low income residence the look may change but it's still going to be hood for years to come

    • @washingtondc9290
      @washingtondc9290 4 года назад +1

      KING ROYALTY- ThE LioN m.ruclips.net/video/AdXKFeAZj8w/видео.html

    • @andarindieme6201
      @andarindieme6201 4 года назад

      Vanilla city

    • @andarindieme6201
      @andarindieme6201 4 года назад

      Vanilla city

  • @esseen100
    @esseen100 4 года назад

    My brother Imar Hutchins is Florida Ave. Grill's owner. He was smiling in a photo on the right side at the beginning of the clip.

  • @eanmuhammad6318
    @eanmuhammad6318 4 года назад +1

    #FARRAKHAN @ 0:16. All praise is due to Allah (and that's a blessing).

  • @Horacerandalljr100
    @Horacerandalljr100 4 года назад

    My favorite spot them chitlins be hittin

  • @domenciolives1351
    @domenciolives1351 4 года назад +1

    Shout out to the Fla Ave Grill. Just give me some Chicken Wings With mumbo sauce from the carry out...😂

  • @flamingoso3677
    @flamingoso3677 4 года назад

    Grew up right down the street #1311 #FloridaAve #Uptown

  • @koncessgordon8921
    @koncessgordon8921 4 года назад +1

    “Sal, why you ain’t got no black people on da wall’ (Do the Right Thing lol

  • @RandomCapricorn
    @RandomCapricorn 4 года назад

    DC born and raised

  • @harryclark8083
    @harryclark8083 4 года назад +3

    A gully did y'all swing past bens chilli bowl

  • @ucheodunzeh6243
    @ucheodunzeh6243 4 года назад

    Dem I remember back in the day that was the spot

  • @takemeouttothegogo.5634
    @takemeouttothegogo.5634 3 года назад +1

    Gangsters menu..STEAK & EGGS, POTATOES. SALMON, GRITS & EGGS..YALL KNOW HOW IT WAS...

  • @DomCapoDM
    @DomCapoDM 4 года назад

    You should have asked about me & my son. Not only that, respect to Sean Branch but I would take you around around. We stopped fugking with Florida Ave Grill. They had rats for a min. I eat at Ooohs and Ahhhs. That’s where hustlers go now in DC and a couple other spots I will keep to myself. Free Simba. By the way they call me Bles’d.

  • @nguyenlee7644
    @nguyenlee7644 4 года назад

    Looks gentrified now, lol. Still gone go though. Nice vid on the history. I’m definitely goin.

  • @dcwashingtonpresident5938
    @dcwashingtonpresident5938 2 года назад

    Linwood had his carwash in the parking lot next to the Grill... Washing all the big time players cars while they sat, eat and network at the Grill.. Who remember the hand detail carwash? Rip Linwood

  • @damonharrison4737
    @damonharrison4737 4 года назад

    Can't forget about Ben's Chill bowl

  • @marvinhagler4721
    @marvinhagler4721 4 года назад

    ALL TYPES OF LIFE WENT HERE ALSO BECAUSE IT STAYED OPEN ALL NIGHT LIKE BENS CHILI BOWL (Ust location) which is STILL there..RIP MARION BARRY..

  • @michaelanderson3345
    @michaelanderson3345 4 года назад

    First time I went was in "93". Probably went before with my family

  • @kwin7412
    @kwin7412 2 года назад

    Good fuckin documentary

  • @betekle4067
    @betekle4067 4 года назад

    🏀🏀🏀

  • @harryclark8083
    @harryclark8083 4 года назад

    GULLY T.V💯

  • @peezy23
    @peezy23 2 года назад

    Still walk passed here almost everyday. Do not leave your car across the street overnight... lol. It WILL get broken into lol

  • @dictionary9150
    @dictionary9150 3 года назад

    Alpo mentioned this place

  • @lisaholland102
    @lisaholland102 4 года назад +2

    Hey gully

  • @musiccityimportsinc3868
    @musiccityimportsinc3868 4 года назад +3

    Looks like a Waffle House but one location locally owned and runned’

  • @babypa3494
    @babypa3494 4 года назад +7

    That place clearly fell off its a reason Sean wont eat their anymore, when miss ophelia died so did that plac=e

  • @2gzandaki
    @2gzandaki 4 года назад

    That’s my grandma

  • @JimBrownski
    @JimBrownski 3 года назад

    Its not the same. Quality went down when Ms Opehelia died

  • @thesilverstateofmindsports4417
    @thesilverstateofmindsports4417 4 года назад +2

    jacks family kitchen,,king and western in laca,,,,,mlk ..Ali,,,malcom x,,jackie robinson,,,,fats domino,,rick james,,,tina marie ,,,,,ike and tina turner ,,sam cooke,,,marvin gaye,,,,,,,,,,,,ask for alice

  • @lowkeyIbes
    @lowkeyIbes 2 года назад

    Florida Ave still got junkies roaming till this day. Sheesh.

  • @radio3976
    @radio3976 3 года назад

    Never been in there not one time

  • @mr.mannsstreetstv6886
    @mr.mannsstreetstv6886 4 года назад

    Bruh you look Franklin the turtle 😂

  • @MightMouse2174
    @MightMouse2174 2 года назад

    Ophelia ( rip ) look like she could get down in the kitchen for Sunday dinner

  • @ITSMYOPINIONNOTYOURSDOYO-bi5sr
    @ITSMYOPINIONNOTYOURSDOYO-bi5sr 4 года назад +1

    This could have been so much better ???

  • @al5603
    @al5603 4 года назад +1

    Salute to this spot, but damn, all Black workers, all Black pictures on the wall and all white customers. SMH at Gentrification.

  • @teddy155
    @teddy155 3 года назад

    Not very in depth for such a spot. But I guess I’ll do some further research.

  • @Rico-tt3jk
    @Rico-tt3jk 4 года назад

    White people love soul food don't they.

  • @tyreesneed
    @tyreesneed 2 года назад

    lol that lady worker was mad rude

  • @KillMoee
    @KillMoee 4 года назад

    Real dc nigga ain’t never been to the monument

  • @masel4036
    @masel4036 4 года назад +1

    Im from Detroit wtf Marvin gaye got to do with this shit

    • @robertsmithlll8464
      @robertsmithlll8464 2 года назад

      He’s from DC you dummy lmao that’s what. What you thought he was from Detroit 🤡

    • @dcwashingtonpresident5938
      @dcwashingtonpresident5938 2 года назад +1

      Marvin gaye from D.C... He used to eat their all the time and he went to Cardozo high school right across the street