The Asmara Restaurant    Photo credit:

Location: 2218 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009

The Asmara Restaurant was named for the capital city of Eritrea.

“Although it would be easy to think of Asmara, the Eritrean capital, solely as an Italian built colonial city, its origins actually reach back some 700 years. Originally, it is said, there were four clans living in the Asmara area on the Kebessa Plateau…”


Panorama of Asmara  Photo: Wikicommons