We know it seems like you have to drop $100 to eat out around D.C. — here are some tips from some of our region’s most voracious eaters on how to lower the bill.
Affordable gems are out there for hungry (and savvy) diners who know where and when to fill up.
In which we build upon our list from last year and DCist writers share their favorite cheap eats in the city.
Even though D.C. is filling up with pricey restaurants, there are still plenty of places to eat great for not a lot of cash.
Like unicorns or free parking downtown, a weekday lunch for less than $7 or $8 often seems like a figment of the imagination. Cheap lunch eats exist, though, and we’ve rounded up a list of tasty options town.
In a DCist interview several weeks ago, Tyler Cowen declared that Zenebech Injera at 6th and T Streets NW was serving up the best Ethiopian food in town. We put the advice of the economics professor/ethnic eats guru to the test. On a sunny Friday afternoon, a steady stream of customers wanders in and out. Cabbies drive up to the door—literally onto the sidewalk—to grab their to-go containers. Definitely a good sign. The cashier dashes…
Sietsema responds, sorta Last week, we asked Tom for a clarification of the star-rating system. During his Dining Guide chat, he linked to his ratings code, which he posted this past Monday. One of the chatters had the same questions we had, “Have you ever considered a different system for your ratings? So often you will write a review where you rave about the food but mention something else (service, appearance) that you didn’t like,…
We here at DCist wonder why they schedule Restaurant Week immediately after the Thanksgiving-Hanukah- Christmas-Kwanzaa season of fat-assedness. It’s like D.C.’s restaurant community is our collective grandma: “Washington! My God, you look so gaunt! What in the world are they feeding you? It’s high time you started having three course dinners after three course lunches. I mean you’re rail thin! Look, your pants are hanging off of you.” No Grandma, the pants are saggy because…
We were dismayed to see that the Washingtonian recently dissed one of our favorite cheap eats joints in Alexandria, Café Monti, saying “the lackluster goulash, watery pastas, and stale tarts had us heading for the door.” This flip comment caused our jaws to involuntarily slacken in shock and disbelief. The NoVa DCist contingent has patronized Monti several times over the past couple of months, and the quality has only improved, and the supposed lack of…
Over the years, we’ve come to think of Peruvian-style chicken, or pollo a la brasa, as the unofficial fast food of the D.C. area. Sure, we’re big fans of all the Afghan and Persian kebab joints, the numerous Vietnamese pho parlors, and the ever proliferating pupuserias, but Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken has the sort of broad cross-cultural appeal that these other equally worthy cheap eats lack. When it comes to pollo a la brasa, Crisp &…
