Scott Suchman
NoMa — quick for north of Massachusetts Avenue — is house to a mixture of tried-and-true and contemporary eating choices. The close by Union Market space particularly has grown right into a restaurant and bar vacation spot, ballooning after the namesake meals corridor was rebuilt by Edens Properties in 2012 the place the historic Union Terminal Market used to face. The identical actual property firm opened La Cosecha, a recent Latin American market in 2019. Each spots have some hidden gems to select up a straightforward lunch or informal dinner.
Established cooks and restaurateurs proceed to plant roots within the space, with latest arrivals like Stephen Starr’s very D.C.-themed El Presidente, Edward Lee’s Shia, and Michael Rafidi’s La’Shukran. There are many thrilling upcoming openings too, like Bar Betsie, from the homeowners of Jane Jane, and Chai Pani, a super-popular Indian standby from North Carolina.
Exterior of the new Union Market district, the remainder of NoMa is stuffed with neighborhood spots and Italian bakeries and markets that harken again to when Swampoodle grew to become a type of “Little Italy” within the early 1900s.
Try this checklist of favourite spots within the huge array of meals choices that the buzzing Northeast neighborhood has to supply.
