Photo by Quinn Dombrowski

Drink of the week:Turkish coffee

Where: Zaytinya, Meze, mobile Turkish coffee house

Frothy and bracing, Turkish coffee is actually not a type of coffee at all. Rather, it’s a method of brewing regular coffee beans to produce a concentrated, almost chocolatey brew. Finely grinding the beans and gently boiling and reboiling the coffee at least three time helps develop a deep, complex flavor and a rich, foamy head. Sugar, if desired, is typically added before the brewing process instead of at the end.

A tiny but powerful cup of Turkish coffee is an excellent end to a heavy meal and a good cure for an impending food coma. However, Turkish coffee is another, lesser known use: reading your future. Similar to reading tea leaves, a person’s fortune can be read using the coffee sediment collected in the bottom of the cup. For the next week, you’ll get a chance to have the full Turkish coffee experience — including having your fortune told — for free. In anticipation of the 8th Annual Turkish Festival taking place on October 3, a mobile Turkish coffee truck will be roving the streets of D.C. handing out free coffee and future tellings. Today they’ll be tooling around 30th and M Street in Georgetown from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The truck’s entire schedule is available here.

Small Bites

Vegging out
DC Vegfest returns for it’s fourth annual celebration of all things vegetable, this time at Yards Park on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. As usual, the festival will feature lots of vegetarian and vegan fare from local businesses such as Sticky Fingers and Amsterdam Falafel. In addition, you can expect speakers, vegan celebs, cooking demonstrations, and people dressed up as vegetables. The event is free.

Brunching out of control
If there’s one thing D.C. loves, it’s brunch. And now even more restaurants are jumping on the eggs and mimosa bandwagon. El Chucho, the Black Squirrel, and Zengo will all be joining the weekend brunch leagues. Zengo will be offering a “bottomless” brunch with unlimited tapas and cocktails for $35, while El Chucho will have $4 drink specials, breakfast burritos, and chilaquiles. But the Black Squirrel may have them all beat, with a gut-busting menu featuring PB&J french toast and breakfast poutine.

Yola no more
Dupont Circle coffee shop and yogurt bar Yola will be closing on September 28. The Connecticut Avenue space will be taken over by the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, also known as the folks behind favorites like Churchkey, Rustico, and Buzz Bakery.