Husband-and-wife team Hakeem and Zura started cooking together when grounded in Morocco during the pandemic, and on returning to London, it evolved into the Duda Diner concept, their love letter to Malaysia. After popping up with it all over town, the pair have now found a permanent home for Duda Diner in Nunhead, taking over cafe Goodcup on Thursday to Saturday evenings.
A Raising Cane's in Chinatown will open its doors on Tuesday, October 21. The location is at 722 7th St. NW, steps from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro stop and a block down from where the Washington Capitals and Wizards play their home games. The Capitals play the Seattle Kraken that night. Raising Cane's menu features four box combo options and a kid's meal.
Named after the Greek flatbread, Lagana, the group's most casual restaurant, will be led by Group Executive Chef Tzoulio Loulai, who's doing a menu of skewers, flatbreads and small plates, including dishes like: courgette tempura with spiced red pepper sauce savoury loukoumades with graviera cheese fresh anthotiro cheese with thyme and truffle oil charred corn on the cob with yellow chilli butter and cumin salt dry-aged picanha with beef jus lamb kebab with oregano-tomato sauce, cumin yoghurt and roasted fennel
Named after Beethoven's Für Elise, the restaurant will represent a showcase of the culinary arts, and it's in good company with the Woodruff Arts Center, home to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alliance Theatre, and High Museum of Art.
Palivan emphasizes that her goal with Lao Garden is to educate people about Lao culture and cuisine, which she believes is often overshadowed by neighboring Thai food.
As designers who often do digital things, we feel specifically within our community that algorithms are pushing us further [apart]. Campillo saw those spaces, where friends could spend hours, slipping from espresso to wine without having to move locations, across Latin America and Europe, but felt like they were missing from Los Angeles.
When the reservation-only supper club gets into full swing, the kitchen shifts from high-end Italian bar menu to full dinner service. Four pastas, including gnocchi dressed in lamb-tomato ragu and lasagna verde Bolognese composed of veal, pork, beef, and house-cured salumi will rotate through the lineup. Whole branzino and pollo al mattone are also on the table as options for these limited menus, and Dimo's Italian Specialities expects to complete two dinner services on those evenings.
To celebrate the restaurant moo-ving into town, cows will eat free on opening day. Local owner-operator Rafael Camargo and his team will be looking for patrons dressed like the animals or at least sporting black and white spots to offer each of them one free breakfast or lunch/dinner entrée inside the restaurant.
We want to source our ingredients fresh and good quality. We want fresh chicken, fresh beef and other produce from local sources and some of these supplies have been disrupted and delayed.
