Tickets are now on sale for Graffiato chef Mike Isabella's pop-up preview of his forthcoming Georgetown eatery Bandolero. Isabella tells the Post the pop-up concept “gives us the opportunity to test out some of our food and train my staff”—pretty much the same reason that restaurants hold a "soft" opening, as the former Top Chef [...]
Rumor du jour: Cava Mezze could be coming to Columbia Heights [Prince of Petworth] José Andrés' new D.C. food truck, Pepe, will serve six kinds of flautas and one kind of sangria: the non-alcoholic kind. [Eater DC] Looking for someone to blame for the demise of Capital City Diner? Look no farther than scandal-scarred politico [...]
El Centro D.F. has some new neighborly competition in the table-side made-to-order guacamole business. And this place packs its avocado dip with spicy serrano. Located just a few blocks away, the new and purportedly more authentically Mexican Tortilla Coast opens Monday at 1460 P St. NW. Washingtonian has photos. Metromix hit up last night's opening [...]
District Taco is finally living up to its name. The Arlington-based restaurant and roving food truck has reportedly secured a second location—this one actually situated inside the District line, specifically at Metro Center. Eater DC gets the scoop via Twitter. Owner Marc Wallace says the bona fide D.C. address will offer a similar assortment of [...]
It's only Monday and already we're reading not one but two culinary obituaries: First, Prince of Petworth alerts us to the closure of Shaw's Taqueria Mexicana, with the proprietor citing high rent for its demise. More sad news arrives via the Chevy Chase email list, which passes along that 4921 Thai Cuisine on Wisconsin Avenue [...]
Capitol Hill's longstanding Tex-Mex outpost and intern magnet Tortilla Coast—former home of the $8.95 all-you-can-eat "fajita orgy," a staple of this columnist's Saturday-night diet during his leaner, even more shallow-pocketed cub-reporter days—is aiming to open its second location in Logan Circle in mid-December. According to a press release, the new and improved Coast will focus [...]
"I actually just bought a Honda Ruckus scooter, and I plan on riding back and forth between both locations. You know, some days I’ll be at one restaurant in the a.m. and lunch, some days I’ll be there in the p.m., but I plan on being at both restaurants."—Chef Mike Isabella, talking to The Georgetowner [...]
National foodie site Serious Eats surveys some of the D.C.-area's best taco spots. Six of nine places on the list are in the suburbs. But the District proper is represented: Two Adams Morgan-area eateries, Super Tacos ("part of the drunk food culture here") and Pica Taco ("[p]erhaps the best barbacoa of the entire taco trip"), [...]
Doritos. A McDonald's cheeseburger, hold the patty. Grilled cheese. Breakfast burritos. Fries. Extra fries. This was my former boss' diet. She called herself a vegetarian. I became enamored with her choices. She managed to be a vegetarian and never eat a vegetable. Well, except for the three pickles on the no-meat cheeseburger. Wait, does a [...]
In this Chow video, John Rivera Sedlar, the chef who pioneered Southwestern cuisine, shows us what we're missing in D.C.: real honest-to-God freshly made tortillas. Try watching this without drooling — or going back to the bagged tortillas that dominate our taco market. Video courtesy of Chow.com
