The Spots: Marleny's, 3201 Mount Pleasant St. NW, (202) 387-2159, Don Julio's Grocery, 1460 Park Road NW, (202) 667-1840, Pupuseria San Miguel, 3110 Mount Pleasant St. NW, (202) 387-5410 The Cuisine: Salvadoran The Go-To Dish: Pupusa, pupusa, pupusa The Scoop: Setting out to find the best pupusa in Washington is like trying to find the [...]
My sister-in-law Molly Allan is a nurse in Baltimore whose work takes her into emergency rooms. Her day-to-day labors are often not pretty, and we've learned to stop asking her questions over dinner. But Molly is a tougher soul than many of us. She just returned from Haiti after spending a week there as part of a rotating [...]
We gastronomes love to place value on simply prepared, hand-crafted foods, whether the house-made pasta at a downtown "trattoria" or the breads that pop, warm and crusty, from a local baker's oven. But how many of us take advantage of one of the best hand-crafted bites in the area — the Salvadoran pupusa? Every day, transplants hand-roll pupusas, whether cheese or [...]
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. With their selection [...]
For some reason, whenever folks talk about local street food, they rarely, if ever, mention the taco and pupusa trucks in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Perhaps it's a cultural thing? A geographical issue? A complete lack of interest in Salvadoran cuisine? Whatever the reason, I'd like to seriously change the tenor of our street-food [...]
