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Image: Upward. Last Updated: July 2025 Overview: Chef Michael Rafidi first branched out from the legendary Albi with the café Yellow. La’ Shukran pushes in a new direction. Like Yellow’s mix of Levantine flavors with French pastries, the menu here is an intentional mixing of sources and traditions. The cooking is more playful than the […]
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Image: Wholly Guacamole. Last Updated: July 2025 Overview: Sometimes a place feels like a perfect neighborhood anchor with great food and a friendly and warm atmosphere. Pascual fits that profile, but the complicating factor is that it is too good. Pascual does inventive and excellent Mexican from the team that is doing inventive and excellent […]
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Image: Classics on a counter. Last Updated: June 2025 Overview: Nestled in an inconspicuous spot south of Dupont is a gift to D.C. Peter Chang developed a myth as a great chef before he built his small empire of restaurants in the suburbs. Finally, in 2022, he opened in D.C. proper. Chang’s reputation was based […]
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Image: Spud sandwich. Last Updated: June 2025 Overview: The team behind the brilliant Daru opened Tapori a few blocks away. At Tapori, they apply their creative approach to street food with additional emphasis on the cocktail program. It is worth a trip to sample the goods, and if you live in the neighborhood, congratulations. You […]
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Image: Leftovers likely. Last Updated: May 2026 NOTE: The restaurant closed. Will be replaced by a bank. A true loss for the District. Overview: It is a big bright room looking out onto 14 Street. On weekends, groups of people gather outside waiting for a table. Inside a team bustles, swerving between the many tables […]
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Image: Lumpia. Last Updated: June 2025 Overview: There is a certain amount of sprawl associated with Purple Patch. Taking advantage of covid-era rules, it expanded its footprint to a huge streatery out front, in addition to the multiple rooms inside the old building where it resides (Note: they took down the streatery in July 2026).. […]
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Image: Lined-up, knocked down. Last Updated: June 2025 Overview: The little, old school shop is as Eater says “iconic” and a “mainstay.” It became something of a mini-phenom during the covid-induced take-out era of eating. It has a longer menu, but we tend to stick to the standards of vegetables and beef tibs. The hearty […]
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Image: Salad! Last Updated: May 2025 Overview: A friend who has spent time in Southeast Asia and doesn’t go for the fancy spots left a post-it on our desk to tell us that Baan Mae is the best SE Asian food in D.C. We can understand the enthusiasm. Like its predecessor at this address it […]
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