The Spot: RAS Restaurant & Lounge, 4809 Georgia Avenue NW, (202) 291-2096 The Cuisine: Ethiopian, Caribbean, Jamaican The Go-To Dishes: Bake and shark, gouda grits The Scoop: About a month ago, I had stumbled across an article on Thrillist about a new place in Petworth called RAS. It's a Rastafarian/Ethiopian themed restaurant combining flavors from [...]
The Spot: Sweet Mango Cafe, 3701 New Hampshire Ave. NW (202-726-2646) The Cuisine: Jamaican, Caribbean The Go-To Dishes: fried plantains, oxtail, jerk chicken The Scoop: There are only a few things in this world that get me as excited as Jamaican food. I had been hearing about Reginald James' Sweet Mango Cafe for some time [...]
The waiter informed me that my order of tikin xic grouper, the house specialty, would take 40 minutes to prepare. I looked over at Carrie for some guidance. It was, after all, our penultimate day of vacation, and I wasn't sure we wanted to spend 40 minutes of it waiting for grilled fish at this beach-side lunch spot [...]
One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return. When the discussion [...]
Commercial mauby, with carbonation Until I stepped foot into Taste of Caribbean 2 yesterday, I had only known the place as the unfortunate player in the tug of war over the former Teddy's Roti Shop space on Georgia Avenue NW. ToC2 has managed to survive, if not thrive, in the year or so since it opened a [...]
It's been a rough year or so for David Nagar, co-owner of Teddy's Roti Shop. The tiny Trinidadian take out, which serves a killer roti and buss-up-shut, had been searching for a permanent home ever since his landlord refused to renew his lease back in the fall of 2007. Nagar first tried to relocate to [...]
