And of course the name was Disbe Good, not Desbe Good like the corpos passed down to me….so very typical for a desk jockey that can’t even seem to google anything right….. This crew with the owner, Phil, at the helm do an amazing Africa-inspired takeout plates with both proper, juicy, and tender suya, as well as teriyaki shmeats with some very good kick to em! Even the seasoned mayo on the burgers isn’t something I’d even really call mayo, so that tells you their grub is absolutely legit.
This shoot tooooook time, but that was solely due to the crew being extremely detail-oriented, which I honestly just don’t see too often anymore, so that brightened up my day even before I got to sample the props. We shot the shit about food ‘tog woes and hilarities like this one, as well as certain down-95S-populaces assuming they’d get the ceramic cup in the glam shot of a $2 coffee, delivered, for the same $2. Some stories of perfectly good steaks being tossed, and some completely frozen products placed before in the past by certain U St pizza joint that rhymes with “polis.”
So without any further adieu, here’s what I saw made before my eyes:
And my eyes naturally started shining when I saw my beloved beef suya, plus a few stories of places I’ve shot that managed to ruin theirs somehow. Phil nailed his, and besides just that – it was a very tender suya unlike I’ve tried before!
And the real treat was their fowl chicken suya! I can’t say I’ve ever seen a chicken variation, nor do I even remember the last place that used proper fowls instead of hormone-pumped, huge and fatty birds for much of anything.
All in all, DisBe Good was a solid experience that wore all of our creative juices out over the 2 hours it took to get this done, and I highly recommend checking them out if you’re ever in the Ivy City Food Works off of 5th St NE area!
And their website to peruse and order from is – https://www.disbegooddc.com
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