Over the last several months, chef Rock Harper has been hosting phone-free events at his H Street corridor bar Hill Prince. He’s also been reevaluating his own technology use, going so far as to give up his smartphone and switch to a flip phone as part of a “Month Offline” program this summer. And on Friday, September 5, he’ll open DC’s first phone-free bar: Hush Harbor, replacing Hill Prince.

“All we’re doing is giving people a little nudge to be supremely present and intentional about this hospitality experience,” says Harper, of Hell’s Kitchen fame. “It’s not going to be preachy or punitive. I just know in my life and in others, if you put [your phone] away, you can really have a wonderful, different time that we’re not really used to having right now.”

Harper is partnering with Dan

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