The restaurant options in Friendship Heights have been paltry for years a Cheesecake Factory here, a PF Chang’s there as some of the neighborhood’s shopping centers have hollowed out to mostly-empty husks. So it’s understandable that Chevy Chase residents have been anxiously peering into the Heights food hall, which was originally set to open in April, whenever
Growing up in California, Paolo Dungca never saw Filipino food in an upscale setting. If anything, the restaurants he encountered when he moved from the Philippines to the US at age 13 were mom and pop shops serving "ugly but delicious" dishes, often scooped behind a counter. But over the span of his cooking career,