DC Food Trip, Part I

Last Thursday, as part of my birthday week celebrations, Colleen and I went to DC to see the Eddie Izzard show and EAT! The train got us in around 1:30, we dropped our stuff at the hotel and went back in to the city for a late lunch.

After calling first to find out that the dining room was closed but we could order off the bar menu, we made our way to TenPenh, an Asian Fusion place at the corner of Tenth and Pennsylvania.


We ordered wine and three dishes: pork empanadas with a spicy cilantro sauce, Indonesian chicken stuffed roti with a yellow curry apple dipping sauce, and Filipino lumpia style pork and shrimp spring rolls with a dark vinegar sauce, a sweet chili sauce, and a spicy aioli. The empanadas were outstanding, the spring rolls were a close second, and the roti came in a not too distant third. But the real winners were the sauces, which were fantastic!



For dinner we went to the Peruvian El Chalan on Eye Street for a delicious but slightly rushed meal (especially disappointing when the show started 45 minutes late). We had salads and shared a to-die-for ceviche mixto with squid, fish, shrimp and - my favorite - conch. It was light, citrusy, perfect for the evening.

The next post will cover lunch at Oyamel and dinner at Belga Café.