A Beloved Taco Spot Lands in a Virginia Brewery — And Extra November Openings Round D.C.

As Washingtonians put together for the onslaught of winter loads of new spots are popping as much as take refuge in with heat drinks and hearty dishes. Contemplate this your information to all the brand new eating places, bars, and cafes which have debuted in November 2024 to this point. This listing will probably be up to date weekly. If there’s a gap in your neighborhood that we’ve missed, tell us at dc@eater.com.

November 23

ALEXANDRIA — The superb birria goat tacos and hen tinga from standard Virginia taqueria La Tingeria now have a everlasting dwelling at Port Metropolis’s 13-year-old brewery. The favored Mexican chain began as a taco truck in 2013 and noticed unimaginable progress throughout the pandemic when chef David Peña began promoting halal meat choices for the Northern Virginia Muslim neighborhood. The brand new taco spot serves specialties you may’t get on the Falls Church and Spotsylvania places, together with lamb burger sliders and Sonoran scorching canine wrapped up in halal beef bacon. All of Peña’s signature dishes, like cheese-covered elote on the cob, crispy tostadas, and chilaquiles-filled tortas, are additionally obtainable to pair with Port Metropolis brews on the new location. 3950 Wheeler Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia

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November 22

CAPITOL HILL — The expanded Folger Shakespeare Library’s new cafe Quill & Crumb pays homage to the Bard’s prized work. A $80.5-million renovation added new room for Folger’s displays, opening up the historic Nice Corridor to turn into the proper spot to seize lunch, pastries, espresso, tea, and snacks. In the course of the library’s opening hours, Quill & Crumb will dish out a Waldorf salad with candied walnuts and Stilton cheese, herby salmon gravlax sandwiches, lavender blackberry financiers, and espresso drinks made with selfmade syrups. 201 E Capitol Avenue SE

H STREET — A Maryland Mexican spot opened its first outpost within the District, with no-frills gorditas, flautas, tacos, burritos, and fajita platters in a small H Avenue house. Taqueria Los Perez already has places in Baltimore, Laurel, and Riverdale and claims to make “conventional recipes,” together with loads of breakfast objects, on its web site. 1344 H Avenue NE

Scolapasta

TYSONS — Tysons Galleria has a brand new fast-casual pasta possibility in its meals court docket operated by government chef Roshan Ashiq, who beforehand ran the Il Canale kitchen in Georgetown and hails from the Modena area of Italy. At Scolapasta, recent pasta is made in entrance of mall-goers within the stand’s small kitchen earlier than being packed into an ingredients-covered takeout container. Conventional pasta shapes embrace penne, rigatoni, and tagliatelle (together with squid-ink) topped off with diners’ alternative of cacio e pepe, ragu alla bolognese, pesto, pomodoro, and extra. 2001 Worldwide Drive, third Flooring, McLean, Virginia

Her Diner

November 20

ADAMS MORGAN — The enduring “18th and U” tackle reopened its doorways because the renewed Her Diner, full with colourful cocktails, neon all over the place, and a Beyonce-themed toilet. The attention-popping diner is an inclusive neighborhood house that options the whole lot from consolation meals favorites to Bravo-viewing events and vigorous weekend brunches flowing with bubbly drinks. The restaurant is the brainchild of Kelly Laczko, who makes her debut as an proprietor and operator after spending 10 years as common supervisor for the house’s earlier occupant, Duplex Diner. The opening menu balances nostalgic meatloaf and pigs in blanket with recent objects like free of charge pickles from native enterprise Gordy’s Pickle Jar. Decisions at Her Diner embrace breakfast-for-dinner dishes like French toast or a breakfast burrito and the return of milkshakes. Behind the bar, the late-night diner shakes up fruit-forward crushes in addition to twists on classics that embrace a dill pickle brine martini, a Hugo spritz, and a fig vodka mule. Laczko, who says she loves a theme, additionally plans to rotate cocktails with the season. 2004 18th Avenue NW

Deb Lindsey

UNION MARKET — A brand new seafood mecca from Clyde’s Restaurant Group touched down within the quickly increasing neighborhood this month. Cordelia Fishbar is the primary really seafood-centric eatery within the group’s portfolio, with a menu that emphasizes charcoal grilling, fish getting older, and (after all) an in depth uncooked bar. Whereas Clyde’s is maybe finest identified for its wide-ranging menus at massive eating locations like Outdated Ebbitt Grill, the Hamilton, and naturally, Clyde’s, Cordelia — the group’s 14th location so far — is a little bit of a departure from the norm. For starters, the restaurant has a way of caprice and hominess that’s obvious each within the meals and the atmosphere. Dutch-influenced design consists of quirky particulars, together with hand-painted Delft tile, blown glass accents, and a leather-stitched bar. 550 Morse Avenue NE

FAIRFAX — An Alabama-based restaurant chain identified for its namesake hen salads continues its enlargement throughout Virginia, with one other location of the Rooster Salad Chick opening this month. Franchise group CSC NOVA first debuted the fast-casual eating possibility in Falls Church in August and plans to open 4 extra places within the subsequent two years throughout Leesburg, Ashburn, and Sterling. The Southern-style hen salads at every outpost embrace buffalo, jalapeño, lemon basil, barbecue, and fruity flavors. Diners can seize scoops of hen salad or eat them in a sandwich on the Greenbriar City Heart location, together with pimento cheese, salads, and soups. 13057 Lee Jackson Memorial Freeway Unit 36, Fairfax, Virginia

November 19

UNION MARKET — Sweets startup Handcraft Doughnuts tender launched a brand new stand within the Northwest meals corridor greater than a 12 months after the doughnut store debuted on-line. Within the meantime, husband-wife workforce Kara Terrell and Ike Emejuru have had pop-ups and long-term residencies throughout city, from Western Market to Stable State Books, promoting seasonally flavored doughnuts. At the moment, the store sends out choices like Early Gray tea with lavender, rosewater buttercream, chilly brew glaze, cinnamon streusel, and far more. Hours are from 8 a.m. to six p.m. Monday by Wednesday and lengthen to eight p.m. Thursday by Sunday (until they promote out earlier). 1309 fifth Avenue NE

Steve Vilnit

JUDICIARY SQUARE — Arrel opens within the 445-room Arlo Washington DC lodge 4 years after development began on the downtown lot. The nice and cozy-toned restaurant with a vibrant grab-and-go cafe highlights chef Pepe Moncayo’s Spanish roots, from rising up in Barcelona with Andalusian mother and father to being mentored by cooks throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Succulent roasted rabbit and artichokes have been at all times thrown right into a crispy rice dish his mom used to make throughout his youth, plus anything she may discover available in the market. Arrel’s conejoy y alachachofa consists of carrots and a sauce constructed from the roasted rabbit. Loads of different rice dishes, seafood stews, and tapas fill the Spanish menu, together with bar snacks from the Arrels Bodega, like high-end tinned seafood and potato chips Moncayo painstakingly sourced from 4 completely different distributors to usher in from Spain. The market serves fast, under-$25 lunches made in 10 minutes that “cross-utilizes elements” from the bigger restaurant. Each the full-service eating vacation spot and its snack-filled bodega opened up for enterprise this month, with the Japanese-themed ART rooftop bar coming in December. 333 G Avenue NW

Taqueria Xochi

NATIONAL LANDING — Including to the plethora of scrumptious selections round Amazon’s HQ2, Taqueria Xochi’s first sit-down location swings open with regional Mexican favorites like crispy Milanesa-filled cemitas, enormous tlayudas, and tacos that vary from lengua (beef tongue) to nopales (grilled cactus). The Mexican spot’s first foray into Virginia checks out a brand new sit-down mannequin for the model, which can even develop to Navy Yard subsequent 12 months in an area that’s double the scale. With 30 seats inside, together with eight hot-pink highchairs on the bar, and 14 blue chairs on the out of doors patio, the blue-and-pink house isn’t enormous. Nevertheless it’s a recreation changer for longtime followers that begged the small taqueria to develop ever since its U Avenue takeout window opened in 2020. Founders Teresa Padilla, the chief chef, and Geraldine Mendoza, who runs operations for all of the places, began rising final 12 months with a small stall and new cocktail menu in downtown’s the Sq. meals corridor. The main target at Xochi remains to be at all times on the meals, which Mendoza plans to maintain as “genuine” as potential at every location. 1450 S. Eads Avenue Suite 32, Arlington, Virginia

November 18

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GLOVER PARK — The Glover Park Resort’s lobby-level eating attraction returns to its Italian roots as a dreamy neighborhood newcomer referred to as Divino takes up the unique Casolare house that turned Glover Park Grill. The renovation referred to as for all-new furnishings and jewel-toned chairs, and a semi-open kitchen that places its nightly pasta-making course of on full show. The brand new northern Italian substitute comes from business vets Daniel Perron and Luca Giovannini, who reunite at Divino after working collectively years in the past at D.C. standbys Fiola Mare and Blue Duck Tavern. Casolare’s gas-fired pizza oven was remodeled right into a wood-fired substitute, which assist grills proteins like Roseda Farm NY strip, an Autumn Olive Farm pork chop, and a crimson snapper “chop.” Home made pastas are a “enormous point of interest,” Perron says, with multi-colored carbs being a novel draw that units it aside from different native Italian eating places. Divino — which suggests “divine” in Italian — is huge on northern Italian wines from Rome and up, plus Negronis and different classics on the bar. The comfy eating room seats 80, plus one other 40 on the bar. A further bar and patio space with room for as much as 80, which is able to comply with within the spring, swings extra informal with small snacks (cicchetti). 2505 Wisconsin Ave NW

November 15

SILVER SPRING — Los Angeles-based chain Dave’s Sizzling Rooster opened a brand new White Oak City Heart location, with spicy tenders and fries that received Drake to put money into the continued scorching hen development. The previous pop-up that went nationwide additionally serves Nashville-style scorching hen sliders, loaded shakes, slaw, and mac and cheese. The fourth DMV location is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. 12255 Prosperity Drive Suite #113, Silver Spring, Maryland

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November 10

GEORGETOWN — Stuffed with glowing copper accents and plush emerald chairs, Georgetown’s iconic Dean & Deluca house was utterly remodeled into the luxurious D.C. outpost of Osteria Mozza. Acclaimed chef Nancy Silverton and mega-restaurateur Stephen Starr unveiled a mixture of all three of Silverton’s California menus, Michelin-starred Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, and Chi Spacca, within the 20,000-square-foot setting. Whereas Silverton had ultimate say on the menu and a small Italian market house, all the way down to assembling how the merchandise will probably be displayed, Starr has introduced his basic model and go-to inside adorning agency, Roman and Williams, to the multi-faceted restaurant. Pure gentle pours by the massive arched home windows into the open first flooring, lined in darkish wooden and marble that not solely tops tables and the bar however is built-in into chips of the intense terrazzo flooring. The menu consists of the only, plump ricotta and egg ravioli served in browned butter on the unique Osteria Mozza, the crispy focaccia di Recco, and a brand new oblong-shaped pizza solely served throughout lunchtime. 3276 M Avenue NW

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November 8

MCLEAN — At Modan, nice eating doesn’t take itself too significantly. The shiny new Japanese restaurant from Nobu alum Micheole “Chico” Dator wows Northern Virginia diners with standout omakase choices, a rolling caviar cart, and decidedly light-hearted tackle some very severe elements. Housed on the second flooring of the Heming Luxurious Residences, Modan is a gleaming homage to trendy Japanese delicacies. Alongside recent sashimi and robata-grilled skewers, diners can even discover crispy nori taco shells crammed with candy onion salsa and a alternative of wagyu beef, lobster, tuna, salmon, or cauliflower. Dumplings additionally get an improve with wagyu beef and freshly shaved truffle, whereas dry aged lamb chops are complemented by a spicy miso and shichimi, a conventional Japanese spice combine. Modan coaxes a lot of the flavour from its elements from a set of dry getting older fridges, displayed proudly alongside the restaurant’s again partitions. 1788 Chain Bridge Highway, McLean, Virginia

November 5

MCLEAN — Timber Pizza Co., Petworth’s critically acclaimed place for crispy, “Neapolitan-ish” pies since 2016, continues its enlargement throughout the D.C. space. The menu will largely mirror the one in D.C., with a rotating listing of 12-inch pies embrace 11 white, crimson, and inexperienced varieties at any given time. Timber’s specialty pies come piled with attention-grabbing elements like cured chorizo, pea shoot pesto, sous vide hen thigh, roasted candy potatoes, and kale. 8100 Outdated Dominion Drive, McLean, Virginia

Shia

November 1

UNION MARKET — There’s greater than meets the attention at superstar chef Edward Lee’s new boundary-pushing Korean restaurant that joined D.C.’s booming Union Market neighborhood earlier this month. SHIA’s small, earth-colored house is a bodily journey of types, transitioning from a 12-seat bar to a 22-seat eating room (and shortly a semi-outdoor dessert lounge) because the seven-course tasting menu ($160) guides diners by the condensed restaurant. Lee serves up classic-with-a-twist Korean meals that mirrors dishes that received him second place on the South Korean cooking competitors present and worldwide Netflix hit Cultural Class Wars. Present highlights on the continually evolving menu embrace a pine nut, tofu, and apple Korean porridge topped with Maryland crab and a tuna-encased ball of layered bibimbap topped with caviar and a runny quail egg. Past the meals, Lee tells Eater that there’s “a narrative that we need to inform about sustainability” alongside the way in which at Shia. The nonprofit restaurant is dedicated to being plastic-free, making its personal menus and coasters from leftover paper, and even dehydrating its personal trash to check sustainable alternate options for eating places seeking to contribute to a greener future. 1252 4th Avenue NE