El Chucho - Cocina Superior

About

Real Mexican in Columbia Heights. Authentically chigonized!

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El Chucho is a small neighborhood cantina serving modern Mexican food alongside Tall Boy Tecates and craft Margaritas. Our food is homemade and inexpensive, traditional but updated, and consists of bocadillos, tortas and tacos. Our year round rooftop adds a festive feel to everyday dining.

The bar has a wide selection of margaritas (including one on draft and two frozen--both from scratch), casa made soft drinks, whatever delicious cocktails we feel like serving at the moment as well as a broad selection of tequilas, mezcals, and Mexican beer.

The menu was created by Chef Diana Davila-Boldin, whose family is from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and who studied under Susana Trilling in Oaxaca. A native of Chicago, Diana helped open numerous Mexican restaurants there and at an early age became the Executive Chef at her family's fine dining Mexican restaurant, where she received rave reviews. She later moved into New American cooking and held positions at several acclaimed Chicago restaurants before moving to DC. She was the Executive Chef at Jackie's Restaurant in Silver Spring, MD until 2013, named a "Rising Star" by the Washingtonian.

El Chucho - Cocina Superior is the first venture in D.C. for Jackie Greenbaum and Gordon Banks. Jackie opened Jackie's Restaurant in Silver Spring, MD in 2004, then picked up The Quarry House Tavern and, in 2010, opened Sidebar. Gordon joined her team in Silver Spring in 2005 and developed the award winning beer and whiskey selection at The Quarry House before diving into the world of cocktails down the street at Sidebar. Their second DC venture, Bar Charley, is due to open in Dupont Circle in September 2013.