The nation’s capital is full of amazing restaurants and tons of international food for travelers to enjoy. Here we give you our five favorite foods to enjoy when we visit Washington, DC.
1. Ethiopian Food: DC has an enormous range of great international restaurants, but one that stands out as quite unique is the abundance of Ethiopian restaurants in The District. If you get a chance check one out and make sure you wash your hands before you eat, because you don’t use a fork and knife, you use your hands and your bread to enjoy the stews, meats and veggies on offer.
2. Maryland Crab: whether it is amazing Maryland Crab Cakes or just plain old tasty crab in anything DC has a lot of crab options for you. So if you see some one selling some crab cakes on the street or on the menu you will get a fresh and local tasty treat.
3. Oysters: the oysters from Chesapeake Bay are worth their weight in tastiness. And what is great oysters are a popular happy hour treat at a number of restuarants around town. So enjoy some oysters and a local beer.
4. Half-Smoked Sausage: whether you are wandering around the national mall looking at museums or you head up to Ben’s Chili Bowl there are plenty of options of eating this local sausage.
5. Other Local Treats: Chicken wings with Mumbo sauce is popular when you can find it. The Mumbo sauce is a combination of sweet and sour sauce and BBQ sauce in my opinion. You can always grab a cupcake in Georgetown (they are famous there), or you can head out to Mount Vernon and grab some peanut soup and some bread pudding.
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Chicken wings and mumbo sauce doesn't often get mentioned in these videos!
Oh, I do miss the half-smoked!!
You need to be careful when buying a crab cake. Some are filled with breading.
MOUNT VERNON IS NOT DC
Take a side trip to Baltimore for the world's best crabcakes!
Hot wings with mumbo sauce 😋
Thanks for this, visting soon!
Greetings from Dublin in the Rep of Ireland.would you recommend Washington hoping to visit the capital.
Whenever I'm visiting DC time to time I'll take the metro to the outskirts whether Alexandria or PG County because the restaurants are a bit pricey and bougie and if you do want something cheaper it's the fast food restaurants. The outskirts of DC tend to have much better food and restaurants and prices are much reasonable.
#5 should be number 1. That’s real dc
I love how you mention mumbo sauce. You only find that in real dc, hood dc
This man is valid! He knows everything abt all these places all over the world. This video was spot on once again.
For Ethiopian try Dukem or Ethiopic. On the National Mall, go to the restaurant at the Museum of the American Indian.
Here's some tips, 1.ALOT of the "crab" related foods in DC have filler 2.MAKE SURE you stop at Bub and Pops! 3.There are several different types of Mumbo Sauce around the city ranging from the bright orange-ish red to the dark burgundy BUT the BEST ones are ALWAYS at the sketchiest carry outs smfh
No Nando’s?
As a washingtonian, this was surprisingly spot on! ❤️
Am a DC local. I avoid DC restaurants like the plague except the San Antonio restaurant in Brookland. The rest are pretentious or unsafe. Chinatown restaurants will send you directly to George Washington Hospital. Food trucks can be a pain in summer since yellow jackets will bomb you when trying to eat. Won't say where I go in the burbs since I don't want tourists ruining them.
If you're willing to splurge I go to Jaleo or really any of Chef Andres's restaurants. Expensive but really good. I'm really sad that pasta plus in Laurel is closing ( know its way out of the way) but I don't think you'll find better Italian food in the area, it was also inexpensive.
Peanut Soup is a west African staple … it’s a culinary nod to the enslaved black peoples who built the nations capital
Thanks for making this video. I am looking for creative ways to grow my DC centric travel channel and I appreciate your remarks.
He said oysters and my mouth instantaneously started to water🤤
Ben's is overrated. Been there once in the past decade. Yes to Ethiopian food though!
Thanks for the suggestions
OK so I searched for Israel and got this
Crab cakes are number one. Bar none
Sadly due to Covid a lot of places have closed. But as a resident of the metro area, I can say with confidence there’s so much to the dc food scene you’ll never get bored.
Comet pizza lol
Have you been to weenie beenie in arlington? Home of the original half smoke. Also gt cupcake is good but at the wrong time, lines are around the corner.
A half-smoke is a hot dog the same way a bratwurst is a hot dog
Great little video, so I would have the hot dogs and the three deserts lol
Nope, bye
Bens chilly bowl sucks now
https://bubandpops.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCYGb9nFrHw