Comments on: Judging Restaurants – El Paraiso

By: Adams Morgan

Adams Morgan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:58:19 +0000

Love El Paraiso…The food rocks and the staff couldn’t be friendlier, so go. And this is the perfect immigrant success story too.

BTW, the owner of El Paraiso is refusing to sell to the developer of the new project so it will be built around him (unless they offer him a much better offer than what they’ve offered so far).

By: jules

jules — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:17:14 +0000

That link Marco posted is completely horrifying. The Clarendon-creep of hideous, impersonal, greedy new development is appalling.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:21:00 +0000

It belongs to the same people as El Paraiso II (formerly Las Tunas) on 14th and Randolph. Their steaks are delicious. It’s all in the marinade. Believe it or not, they renovated a couple years ago, and it’s a lot fancier, cleaner, and less sketchy than it used to be.

By: u street girl

u street girl — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:56:43 +0000

This is nowhere near Red Derby, it’s right near St Ex in between T and U on 14th street. I’ve never been but always wanted to try, I’ll have to swing by (before it’s gone, apparently?)

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:40:45 +0000

The development will go from McDonalds all the way down to that building where the new Policy Restaurant is going. The development is preserving the facades along U Street because those are historic; so Simply Home will remain open throughout. The places along 14th Street will go away since they are not historically significant.

By: Stone

Stone — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:40:18 +0000

I love this place. Yes, it’s a hole in the wall, but DC needs more of them IMO. Food was good, and the wait staff was great. Last time I was there we ended up in the middle of a birthday party, which was great. Sad to hear that it will be replaced with cookie cutter condos.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:36:47 +0000

I don’t think it is going anywhere. I understood that this building is not part of the development.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:59 +0000

is this the same as the one up by Red Derby? also the new development going up there. is it going to demolish that whole bloke or preserve the facades? its hard to tell from the sketch up.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:49:52 +0000

never been; but it will be gone in a year or so for this new development:

http://dcmud.blogspot.com/2008/11/scaled-back-utopia-on-u-street.html

By: New2CH

New2CH — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:19:51 +0000

Ate there once. Thought it was absolutely horrible. Many far better places in CH.