Celebrate Spring at These Restaurant and Bar Pop-Ups Around D.C. | Eater DC

"A Bethesda ramen shop is serving a one-night-only bowl on Monday, May 12, with Urai DC’s Ben Plyraharn — the Italian-trained, Thai-American chef known for inventive Thai-Italian pop-ups — who links up with the Zao team to cook up a “not your ordinary” red curry ramen ($26) topped with spaghetti-like ramen noodles and a Thai herbal sausage porchetta. Plyraharn told Eater that he is a big fan of Zao Stamina owners Payesone and Shiho Hamakata’s house-made noodles and weekly ramen specials that focus on ingredients from each Japanese prefecture. Bowls of the special red curry ramen are only being sold in advance and are available in different time slots (5 to 9 p.m.) on the restaurant’s Clover ordering site." - Emily Venezky