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Image: Grease lightnin’. Last Updated: October 2025 Overview: What if you stuffed a taco full of meat. Added cheese. Fried it on a griddle, then provided a cup of meat broth to dip it into. It would be a dripping, greasy mess of joy. The birria taco took off as a social media virus, and, […]
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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: Bursting Last Updated: January 2025 Overview: Apapacho Taqueria takes over the space recently vacated by Las Gemalas, with little changes to the décor. But it is a new place and a new team, who came from the excellent fine-dining Mexican restaurant Maiz64. The closing of Maiz64 is 14th Street’s loss and Union Market’s gain. […]
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Image: Boom. Last Updated: February 2024 Overview: Victor Albisu made his mark on fine dining with two highly-regarded spots, the smoky Del Campo, and the revelatory Poca Madre, but it was the fast-casual Taco Bamba that took off. After a few years when D.C. had to go without, we are now blessed with one location […]
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Image: Plate o’ Tacos. Last Updated: July 2025 NOTE: Chicatana suffered a fire, and have relocated to 1400 Meridian Pl., NW. They have a Go Fund Me for rebuilding and staff. Overview: Come for the wide selection of tequilla and mezcal, stay for the better than you might expect food. The menu is anchored by […]
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Image: Ready to go. Last Updated: February 2024 This place organically creates a bit of a buzz. Tourists coming a couple blocks from the Mall overlap with local office workers at happy hour to fill up the two bars inside. The Mexican place in the José Andrés Chinatown constellation, it does guacamole, tacos and margaritas […]
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Image: Turkey hiding in mole. Last Updated: April 2026 Overview: The small spot on P Street has been home to many a favorite for locals. With the closing of Pesce (which reopened a few blocks away!) there was a risk that would not continue. Fear not, Amparo Fondita has cooking that could fill a larger […]
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Image: Shrimp with a Chicken in the background. Last Updated: November 2023 Overview: Before you get to the dining room at Vera, you pass the large bar area on the first floor and take stairs to the second floor, where you pass a lounge-like space with low tables and couches, all with music to match. […]
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