4840 Georgia Avenue NW

ID: 5822 ~ Source: Google Street View ~ Date: July 2019
This file appears in: Lingering on the Palate: Mamma Desta’s (1978 - 1983)
4840 Georgia Avenue NW

This corner building at Georgia Avenue and Emerson Street NW once housed Mamma Desta's Ethiopian restaurant.

This file appears in: Lingering on the Palate: Mamma Desta’s (1978 - 1983)

Opened in 1978, Mamma Desta’s would be the first and most well known Ethiopian restaurant in Washington, DC. A 1982 review from The Washington Post stated that the restaurant was a “simple vision of eating; lots of stews, which are sopped up with…