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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: Sunny on the inside. Last Updated: November 2025 Overview: Bucking the downtown is doomed trend, The Square opened a set of counter-service spots plus a bar and a proper sitdown restaurant spread out across the giant atrium in the International Square building. The two guys behind the project are chefs Richie Brandenburg, who does […]
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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: Some dishes are easier to share than others. Last Updated: December 2022 Current Status: Sit-down, take-out and delivery. Overview: D.C. now has enough reliably good taco spots that a legitimate debate can happen over which one is the best. Taqueria Habanero has been a title contender since it opened nearly a decade ago. It […]
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Image: Three out of the original five options. And a plant. Last Updated: October 2024 Overview: The little shop that can create a line for blocks serves really good breakfast tacos. That is pretty much all you need to know. But we will also let you know a few more things. They offer a few […]
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Image: Juiced and Sauced. Last Updated: June 2022 Current Status: Sit-down dining and to-go/delivery available. Open for lunch and dinner during the week. Open at 9:00 a.m. on weekends. Overview: Nominees for the most surprising and welcome developments in D.C. dining is the boon in tacos in the last decade or so. We have gone […]
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Image: Fish, Al Pastor Last Updated: November 2025 Current Status: Only the original locations remains… so, go! Overview: In a pleasant development for Washington, D.C., it is much easier to find a good taco without a trek nowadays (compare current conditions to even this 2015 list). There is the concentration of places on the north […]
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