A D.C. Restaurant Celebrates What the White House Demonizes
A restaurant and its customers take a stand on immigration
Food has always been political, but the current state of the union is prompting some food industry folks to bring politics front and center. That’s the case with the new D.C. restaurant Immigrant Food, which opened last week a block from the White House.
For the new restaurant, Argentinian Ezequiel Vazquez-Ger and Venezuelan Enrique Limardo — the duo behind Seven Reasons, crowned the №1 restaurant in The Washington Post’s Fall Dining Guide — team up with Peter Schechter, the former director of the Atlantic Council’s Latin America Center, who came to the U.S. by way of Italy and Latin America.
Schechter dreamed up the concept last year as a way to honor his immigrant parents. He said the partners were in before he could even finish his pitch. “We looked to what Nike did with Colin Kaepernick, and what Patagonia is doing [with climate change]. It’s increasingly imperative that businesses lead the way,” Schechter said.
While Immigrant Food takes a decidedly more casual approach than Seven Reasons, it also…
