Where can you taste foods flavored by every continent on this beautiful blue planet? That’s the open secret behind dishes offered by the DMV’s Caribbean and Caribbean-inspired restaurants. With each dish, taste the world of flavors stirred into the Caribbean cooking pot by Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africans, Europeans, Asians, and East Indians.
As the DMV ushers in Summer in June and celebrates National Caribbean American Heritage Month , the over 60 DMV Caribbean and Caribbean-inspired restaurants are ready to transport you to Caribbean cultures which celebrate the sun, spices, flavors and fun. Lucky you, there are no planes or ships to catch; they are in easy reach. Contact them for specials or promotions during the DMV’s Caribbean Restaurant Week, the local leg of the National Caribbean Restaurant Week celebration. You don’t want to miss this.
National Caribbean American Heritage Month is also an opportunity to support these small businesses many which according to Tim Carman of the Washington Post “are a part of the small mom-and-pop operations that hide in plain sight throughout our region”. They deserve our support. DMV Caribbean restaurants had to be Resilient to survive the not-so-long ago recession, had to be Resilient to survive increased rents and the crushing need to remarket to survive rapid gentrification in parts of the DMV, and had to be Resilient to recover from the pandemic. Enjoy your exploration while helping them to continue to add to the diversity of the DMV’s food scene and culture.