The Opening Menu for the Renegade Restaurant in Clarendon Samples From So Many Countries | Eater DC

"Talking to Patrick Crump long enough, I understand why he named his new Clarendon restaurant the Renegade: it’s an all-day cafe, bar, restaurant and live music venue replacing Mister Days where he deliberately goes against the grain. He refuses to compete on the ubiquitous Caesar or “best burger” tropes and instead offers shareable portions like Korean fried chicken, Filipino lumpia, Vietnamese lemongrass beef and fried yucca—sometimes juxtaposing Thai, Indian and North African flavors on the same menu. Crump says every item is something he likes to eat and that the dishes even tie to the latitudes where Stumptown’s coffee beans grow. He added a stage to fill a hole for live music in the neighborhood, a move he calls “a huge risk,” and outfitted the space to attract daytime remote workers with plenty of power outlets. He also emphasizes care and honesty in preparation—citing the hummus as an example, where the kitchen par-cooks and peels chickpeas, cooks them more and experimented with many tahinis to produce what he claims is “arguably as good a hummus as any Lebanese place in town.”" - Adele Chapin