Eater DC

1 week ago | dc.eater.com | Missy Frederick |Tierney Plumb

Carlos Delgado of Causa and Bar Amazonia has taken home the illustrious James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic. The James Beard Foundation announced the winners of its 35th-annual Restaurant and Chef Awards during a glitzy Monday night gala at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Well-dressed hospitality professionals were crowned coveted medals across dozens of categories in what is largely considered the Oscars of the food world. Read the full list of winners here.

1 week ago | dc.eater.com | Vinciane Ngomsi

D.C. is a city brimming with history, and its restaurants are no exception. To qualify for the following list of classics, restaurants had to open before 1970 and stand the test of time inside District lines. Even more stalwarts can be found in the suburbs, including Quarry House, Tastee Diner, the Original Ledo Pizza, Woodside Delicatessen, Old Angler’s Inn. In Virginia there’s Chadwicks, the Vienna Inn, 29 Diner, Bob & Edith’s Diner and L’Auberge Chez Francois.

2 weeks ago | dc.eater.com | Claudia Rosenbaum

Despite only being a little over two years old, Harold Black feels like a step back in time into the Prohibition era. While speakeasies have been around in Maryland for years – more than 250, to be exact – the allure of walking down a dimly lit staircase to this “secret” drinking hole, to sip a Mexican Fire Squad with tequila and red pepper flakes, never goes out of style.

2 weeks ago | dc.eater.com | Tierney Plumb

Desert 5 Spot’s original location in LA. Desert 5 SpotThis embedded content failed to load. A country Western bar with roots in LA is coming to D.C. in “early fall,” per a newly created Instagram account teasing photos of sparkly disco boots. Named for a colorful flower blooming across the Mojave, Desert 5 Spot slides into the two-story industrial space that formerly housed short-lived global plates spot Palette 22 (400 Morse Street NE).

2 weeks ago | dc.eater.com | Missy Frederick

When it comes to street food, the pupusa just might be D.C.’s strongest contribution to the genre (don’t tell the half-smoke fans). Due to the city’s sizable Salvadoran population, pupusas are one of the most omnipresent snacks around here, whether it be in the city proper (Mt. Pleasant and Columbia Heights are key neighborhoods), or stretching into the suburbs, where great options dot through Wheaton, College Park, and Hyattsville in Maryland.