First Black-Owned Restaurant in Woodley Park Opens

The primary Black-owned restaurant in D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood has opened for enterprise.

Flavorture is a brand new soul meals restaurant positioned at 2609 twenty fourth St NW. It opened on Saturday with a ribbon reducing ceremony attended by D.C. leaders, in keeping with a mayor’s workplace launch.

It’s co-owned by Cooks Lew McAlister and Pinkey Reddick. They each ran their very own catering companies earlier than opening the restaurant collectively, the discharge stated.

The opening was supported by a $50,000 grant from the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Financial Growth and a Woodley Park Essential Avenue grant, in keeping with the discharge.

“Flavorture is the dream of two passionate individuals who got here collectively to redefine what native eating might be like in D.C.,” Reddick stated within the launch.

“We’re right here now, and now, to have the ability to manifest it and to have the ability to present those that, hey something that you may want can come true,” McAlister stated. “So, we’ve got the chance to be right here now, and supply alternatives to those that appear to be us, in communities that don’t typically appear to be us.”

The restaurant is described as having “top-notch delicacies with a daring style.” Among the menu gadgets embody lamb chops, fried seabass and beef brief ribs.