July 9, 2007
Welcome to Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide in blog format. The Guide includes more than 550 restaurants in the Washington, DC area.
The Guide is also available in its original one-page format, and can be found via Tyler's web page at GMU. The current Guide is the February 2008 edition.
General remarks
Restaurants manifest the spirit of capitalist multiculturalism. Entrepreneurship, international trade and migration, and cultural exchange all come together in these communal eateries.
In the last fifteen or so years, the Washington DC area has become a leader in ethnic restaurants. We lag behind New York City and Los Angeles, but we vie with Chicago and the Bay Area for third place in the United States. In some areas, such as Ethiopian cuisine, we are number one.