Where to Find Outstanding Mexican Restaurants Around D.C. | Eater DC
"Popal Group chefs Matt Conroy and Isabel Coss, the husband-wife culinary duo behind Georgetown’s acclaimed French neo-bistro Lutèce, opened a contemporary Mexican restaurant on Capitol Hill in early 2024. Named one of Eater’s Best New Restaurants in America, Pascual gets its name from San Pasqual — the patron saint of cooks and kitchens. The hearth-focused menu honors Coss’s Mexico City roots and the chefs’ combined experience working at top-tier Mexican restaurants. Before joining the Popal Group in 2020, Conroy was the chef de cuisine at Michelin-starred Oxomoco in Brooklyn. Coss, a former pastry chef at NYC’s famed Empellón and Cosme, flexes her dessert skills with colossal cinnamon-dusted buñuelos and flourless Mexican chocolate cake. Pascual will soon add a daytime panaderia and coffee shop called Volcán with pickup from a to-go window." - Tierney Plumb
