Tag: authentic
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Proper Mobile Setup – Las Mexican Gorditas Food Truck, Arlington VA
Rarely do we get to see a proper, extended setup for food trucks in most metropolitan areas, and it was nice to see Las Mexican Gorditas tuck themselves just far enough from all the hustle and bustle to be able to set up comfortably and dish out their awesome street eats! Friendly owners, your typical…
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Get Food and Get Hookah – Ebril Kabob, Fairfax VA
Located right off of Arlington Boulevard in Fairfax area, more specifically at 3210 Old Pickett Rd in a tiny plaza with another location of Hot Spot Hot Pot, Ebril Kabob dishes out their authentic Iraqi cuisine and has a connected hookah lounge next door if you’re here to relax before or after your meal. Name…
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Old Birthday Work Bash – Cafe Troia, Towson MD – closed
Continuing a mini-series of places I’ve shot on one of my past birthdays, and I lucked out with everything being pretty close to one another too! Cafe Troia was right down the block from C&R Pub, and it was a nice and quaint Italian spot offering some of the more authentic dishes than usual –…
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Lupo Verde Osteria, Palisades NW DC
Lupo Verde Osteria was an absolutely fantastic shoot back in the day as one of few proper, authentic Italian spots that managed to keep both cozy and classy vibe without catching too much of DC’s pretense. As many of you know or will get to know – I’m not that big on desserts, but the…
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Baltimore’s Best – Frank’s Pizza & Pasta
When I receive a job for a pretty much entire menu of any place, it tends to raise flags of corpos being lazy and just throwing an arbitrary minimum number of plates that seldom ends up being so when I get to the place. I went ahead and rang Frank’s Pizza & Pasta to confirm,…
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Roma’s Pizza Pasta & Subs, Columbia MD – Grandma’s Slice of the Pie
Roma’s Pizza Pasta & Subs is a new-ish, dual-duty spot in Columbia, MD, that has a kickass authentic Italian deli and market with its name being a nice pun, as well as a proper pizzeria all in the same cozy space. Owner and the staff are pretty chill, which can be a 50-50 roll of…
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Dal Grano, McLean VA – Fresh Is An Understatement
Dal Grano was a nice shoot because it’s fairly rare to find an Italian place that not only doubles as a bakery, but makes all sorts of fresh pasta and sells it as a store as well as preps it into wonderful dishes. Small yet modern setup that doesn’t lose its coziness to boot!
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Napoli Pasta Bar, Washington DC – Straight Outta Italy
This lovely, but sadly gone place, I got to shoot twice and t’was the summer of corpo neglect. The premise of the second shoot that was months apart from the initial? The same reason I heard from Delia’s – no pictures were ever uploaded to their account page! C’mon!! Sloppy, lazy, sales and account reps…
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La Bettola Italiano, Crystal City VA – Fourth Time Is The Charm
La Bettola Italiano, smack in the main strip of Crystal City, VA, and not to be confused with the chain restaurants in the hotel strip, I have shot more times than I can honestly count. At one point, the owner went ahead and got his own set of proper shots that did not adhere to…
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Taste of Hong Kong, Chantilly VA
Taste of Hong Kong was one of the few proper Chinese places I’ve shot and I love seeing these huge restaurants instead of Americanized takeouts with completely different taste and literally the same old 5 dishes they’d want to present via my work. Everything here tasted really good too!
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Toscana Market, Washington DC
Toscana Market was a lovely shoot in a fusion of an Italian market, bakery, and kitchen where they also hold cooking lessons from time to time! It’s pretty rare to see a space being diversely utilized and I really like finding these kinds of spots.
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Hot Pot Legend, Rockville MD
Hot Pot Legend was a cute store near Giant Food across from the Rockville USPS and had a proper, extensive offerings on their menu and were happy to get some proper shots done. I left with plenty of samples and even nice chopsticks to boot!
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Takumi, Falls Church VA – Just Like Japan
Takumi was my off-duty discovery while grabbing lunch one busy work day and boy was this an amazing find! This is probably one of the very best Japanese sushi restaurants in the entire DC area and all of the fish just melts in your mouth as it would in Japan itself (and I have been,…
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Xi’An Gourmet, Rockville MD
Xi-An Gourmet was my time to finally shoot the ever-changing 316 N Washington St spot across from the SSA office and the post office. At one point it used to be an Izakaya and has changed many hands and names over the years, but the food remains pretty good to date.
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Haydee’s Restaurant, Mt Pleasant Washington DC – Very, Very Good!
Haydees was an absolutely fantastic spot with a real Mexican cantina feel unlike majority of similar restaurants around this town that chose to modernize their vibes instead of keeping things festive. The cool part was that I shot Haydees during the era of the Aholezone trying to offer restaurant delivery and failing absolutely miserably in…
