"This homegrown restaurant started out in Columbia Heights in 1995 as a bodega and morphed into a family-run eatery focused on Dominican food. “I found this place when I was missing the flavors of the Dominican Republic — tastes like the food I had in the DR,” said a guest critic who ate mofungo (fried green plantains mashed together) with oxtail and a side of rice and beans. “Everything they make, they make with love.”" - Lenore Adkins