![]() The historic, Black-owned restaurant sits on a U Street corridor once known as “Black Broadway.” Nearby soul food staples such as Henry’s Soul Cafe- famous for its sweet potato pie - or breakfast go-to Florida Avenue Grill have been comforting customers for decades. would be complete without a chili-cheese half-smoke from Ben’s Chili Bowl. Find Salvadoran pupusas at Gloria’s in Columbia Heights, El Tamarindo in Adams Morgan, or El Rinconcito near the convention center.Ī pre-pandemic scene at Habesha Market on U Street’s Little Ethiopia Rey Lopez/Eater French-trained chef Elias Taddesse mixes Ethiopian traditions into American classics with a new spice-blasted carryout in Shaw called Doro Soul Food. Ethiopian favorites such as beef or lamb tibs and stewed chicken doro wat at the Habesha Market or Dukem in the Little Ethiopia area of Ninth Street NW and at Chercher a few blocks south. is also home to some of the largest populations of Ethiopian and Salvadoran expats in the nation. The cuisine also has a home at sit-down St. ![]() On H Street NE, Trinidadian-themed Cane is known for pimento-smoked jerk chicken wings, whole fried snapper escovitch, and doubles (fry bread, stewed chickpeas, spicy chutneys) that offer a high-end version of the Caribbean specialties found in carryouts along Georgia Avenue NW. Two high-end, wood-burning Middle Eastern restaurants have attracted national notice over the past few years: Albi, in Navy Yard, and Maydan, just north of the U Street corridor. ![]() Nasi campur, or “with rice,” dishes at Makan include beef rendang, center pajeri nenas (pineapple currry), top ayam goreng (fried chicken with salted duck yolk and curry leaf), right, and okra in sambal.
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