Ghostburger Slides Into Las Gemelas to Serve Chorizo Sloppy Joes and Nachos
Ghostburger is popping up inside Taqueria Las Gemelas for the winter. The ghost kitchen from Josh Phillips and Kelly White Phillips launched during the early stages of the pandemic as a strategy to...
View ArticleCielo Rojo is Growing and Spinning Off a San Fran-Style Burrito Shop
The founders of Cielo Rojo are planning a two-pronged expansion. The popular Takoma Park Mexican restaurant will move into a larger building a short distance down Carroll Avenue to make way for a...
View ArticleA Comfort Food Pop-Up Starring Spuds Launches Today in Shaw
If potatoes are your love language, listen up. A pop-up launched in Shaw this morning with tots, chips, latkes, mashed potatoes, and loaded potato soup. “Sometimes food is taken a little too seriously...
View ArticleThe Henri, a Bistro and Bar From Chef Frederik De Pue, Opens Feb. 15
A bistro that relies on rotisserie cooking is opening downtown next month. At first Frederik de Pue wasn’t sure he wanted to take on an 8,000-square-foot space, but then he formed a plan to be the...
View ArticleBreakfast Taco Pop-Up La Tejana Finds Permanent Home in Mount Pleasant
La Tejana is trading in its pop-up lifestyle for a permanent home. Ana-Maria Jaramillo and Gus May, the engaged couple behind the popular Texas-style breakfast taco brand, will settle down in Mount...
View ArticleSavor a Filipino Tasting Menu Inside a Food Hall When Hiraya Debuts Friday
Starting this weekend you’ll be able to savor an eight-course tasting menu inside a downtown food hall from Chef Paolo Dungca that’s inspired by both the Filipino dishes he grew up eating and his...
View ArticleChef Damian Brown Grabs Prime D.C. Spot for All-Day Brunch Restaurant
Damian Brown knows the magic words: all-day brunch. The chef best known for his over-the-top comfort food at The Uncaged Chefs in District Heights is taking over the former ANXO Cidery & Pintxos...
View ArticleCaptain Cookie & The Milkman Signs Sweet Lease, Expands to Arlington
Captain Cookie & The Milkman is opening across the river for the first time as a part of the local treat-yourself brand’s ongoing regional expansion. The shop should open at 2200 Clarendon Blvd....
View ArticleGood Taste: Newland Blends Forward Thinking Cuisine With Nostalgic Throwbacks
At Newland, the soundtrack is all ’80s all the time. The Outfield’s infectious “Your Love” came on several times the night I visited, and Richard Marx’s treacly power ballad “Right Here Waiting” and...
View ArticleManifesting a Bakery
After two years of running a bakery out of their home, Rick and Tyes Cook now refer to their dining table as a “murphy-table.” It might make an appearance at dinnertime, but otherwise, it’s moved to...
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