8/n Catching back up on #WashingtonDC eatscapades. Walking from the convention center & conference towards hotel and/or Chinatown, Mall area, we passed Jaleo. Count me a fan of Chef Andrés's food + humanitarian work - it seemed empty at lunch so we stopped in. Restaurant Week Lunch menu didn't seem too exciting and paella was too long a wait so just got a couple of apps to share & taste. Squid was excellent - garlicky (touch hard) rice, rabbit rich like a curry.

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7/n #DasEatsDC
Will fill in with deets of a couple of days of terrific eats (and drink) such as this*
but for now a quick stop for lunch after a 40 min charge up of the EV in Rockville MD, as we drive out. Filipino lechon! Tiny place in a strip mall - doing brisk takeout mostly.
Got the ½ slow roasted Cebu style belly, bowl of the Lechon kawali (crispy belly), bowl of fried rice and side of the sweet longanisa to share.

Kuya Ja's Lechon Belly
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20,250 steps (that's 8 miles ) walking today
Excellent #cocktail "Show me the way to get home"
(Mister Fogg Navy Strength Rum, Suze, Cocchi, lime, house cacao syrup)
at McClellans Retreat bar in DC

Before the last mile walk back to hotel room.

A lovely nearly a week in DC - Cheers!

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#DasEatsDC 6/n
Made it for some of the vaunted #Ethiopian fare in DC.
Been years since we had Ethiopian - and after all day conferencing (me) and various museum/art visits (family) and low key or picnic packed lunches - Family Ethiopian, a little walk away was a welcome feast!

Order = Vegetarian special: diffen missir, kayser, gomen, missir wot
+ Meats: Special kitfo, dulet and (served on plate) geba weta

https://familyethiopianrestaurant.com/menu

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#UnionMarket was... a touch touristy perhaps but I suppose markets are like that. Anyways turns out we passed a bunch of restaurants on the drive and drive back to the hotel. So partner and I ended up walking over from the hotel and getting a bit of takeout
Crispy roast chicken was decent, lo mein was meh. Place looked much better than the food. The all-day everyday dim sum menu looked good but we won't go back

Da Hong Pao

I'll start my #DasEatsDC 🧵 1/n
with dinner after we got to DC and our hotel.
Was a rather long and full day already with drive from pgh with stop at @CatoctinCreek and then Pentagon/Arlington Costco (on Friday after noon 😵‍💫) but we persevered and headed over to #UnionMarket that I'd heard a fair bit about.

Bustling on a sat evening, but many vendors were closed or shutting down by the time we got there

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