Not to pick a fight about the diversity of Adams Morgan dining establishment, but the neighborhood has certainly a ton more food options then it did even just three or four years ago. It pisses me off that folks who clearly haven’t been to neighborhood in years dismiss it as this wasteland that only includes jumbo slice. If you haven’t taken advantage of the food options in Adams Morgan, then you’re missing out on what is the most densely packed area of good food options in DC.

In the last two years alone, AdMo has seen a ton of new places open that aren’t in the over sized slice business. Right next store to the Absoulte Pizza is Jack Rose, which is a fairly unique restaurant for DC. Not to mention Mintwood Place, Sakuramen, Southern Hospitality, Smoke and Barrel, the sandwiches at the AdMo Win Shop, and even the Blaguard’s random Wednesday Koren BBQ pop-up.

That doesn’t even include the places that have been around longer that are still great non-pizza restaurants. Cashion’s Eat Place is one of the best restaurants in DC. There is also Black Squirrel, the Reef, the Diner, Tryst,
La Fourchette, Little Fountain Cafe, Casa Oaxaca, Himalayan Heritage, Meskerem, Mama Ayesha’s, Pasta Mia, and Super Taco. And those are just the places I can name off the top of my head.

The bottom line is people still want to dump on AdMo, and yea it has its problems like every other neighborhood. But diversity in food avaiable and how good most of the restaurants are is definitely not one of them.