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Tapori named D.C.’s best new South Asian restaurant
Dishes on the menu include Indian street foods alongside Himalayan specialties like momos.
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Malvika Choudhary - Mon, 16, Mar 2026
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Tapori restaurant / Instagram/ Tapori restaurant
Tapori, a Washington, D.C. restaurant known for its Indian street-food inspired menu, has been named “D.C.’s best new South Asian restaurant."
The recognition highlighted in a Washington Post review by food writer Elazar Sontag acknowledged the restaurant’s menu rooted in Indian street-food traditions alongside Himalayan influences.
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Located on the city’s H Street NE corridor, Tapori was opened by restaurateurs Suresh Sundas and Dante Datta, the team behind the highly acclaimed contemporary Indian restaurant Daru.
Dishes on the menu include Indian street foods such as pani puri, vada pav, dosa, chaat, kulcha and biryani, alongside Himalayan specialties like momos.
“If anything unites the geographically disparate influences at Tapori, whose menu winds through India and Sundas’s native Nepal, it’s how Sundas and head chef Baburam Sharma study and exalt each dish,” Sontag wrote in The Washington Post review.
The review highlighted items such as wagyu-filled momos wrapped in house-made buckwheat dough, lotus root chaat, vada pav and biryani served in a clay pot sealed with bread and opened tableside.
Responding to the recognition, the restaurant said it was created to celebrate South Asia’s street-food culture while building a neighborhood restaurant on H Street.
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