4840 Georgia Avenue NW
This file appears in: Lingering on the Palate: Mamma Desta’s (1978 - 1983): Desta Bairu’s Ethiopian cuisine offered the comforts of home and was the first Ethiopian restaurant in DC.
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): Desta Bairu’s Ethiopian cuisine offered the comforts of home and was the first Ethiopian restaurant in DC.
Lingering on the Palate: Mamma Desta’s (1978 - 1983): Desta Bairu’s Ethiopian cuisine offered the comforts of home and was the first Ethiopian restaurant in DC.
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…