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Following an Eater tradition, we asked a group of restaurant critics, journalists, bloggers, and industry pros to weigh in on the year in food. Their answers to an annual “Year in Eater” survey will be revealed in several posts this week. First up, the dining experts share their regular go-to destinations in 2023 and the most exciting newcomers to D.C.’s restaurant scene.
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Axios: Beloved breakfast sandwich pop-up I Egg You opens new spot in D.C. →
It's finally happening — D.C.'s best breakfast sandwich pop-up, I Egg You, is now a diner-style restaurant on Barracks Row. It opens on Saturday.
Why it matters: Chef Scott Drewno and Danny Lee's buttery egg sandwiches and loaded tots became a weekend fixation, but now they're available daily (plus a ton of new stuff).
Catch up quick: The egg-obsessed chefs first launched the concept as a pandemic pop-up three years ago out of Chiko Capitol Hill, melding Americana breakfast favorites with Chinese and Korean riffs (e.g. brown butter-fried egg sandwiches on Shilla Bakery milk bread).
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I Egg You, launched as a pop-up shop by Fried Rice Collective owners Scott Drewno and Danny Lee in 2020, opens as a standalone, seven day a week dayside restaurant in D.C. on Saturday.
Drewno and Lee are the restaurateurs behind ChiKo and Anju.
I Egg You was originally a take-out and delivery experiment inside the Capitol Hill ChiKo for breakfast Saturdays and Sundays. The newly-built out restaurant, at 517 8th Street Southeast, will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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I Egg You, the new breakfast concept from the ChiKo team, opens on Barracks Row this weekend. The first 50 people to visit get a free coffee.
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I Egg You, D.C.’s newest breakfast spot fueled by local purveyors, cracks open on Saturday, November 18.
The cutely named Capitol Hill hangout (517 8th Street SE) comes from Fried Rice Collective’s Scott Drewno and Danny Lee, the chef-owners behind D.C.’s critically acclaimed Anju and Chinese-Korean counter ChiKo. The first 50 guests on both opening day and Sunday, November 19, will be treated to a free coffee — plus a sandwich on the house on the second visit.
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Scott Drewno hates sad hotel buffet eggs, has no time for shoddily prepared diner eggs. The chef is boggled by why someone would mistreat the perfect ingredient, turning it into unappealing, unpalatable slop. With love and a little technique, eggs are an epiphany: ovular blank canvases ready to be transformed in nearly countless ways, truly the ultimate breakfast food.
Drewno is determined to give the egg its due at I Egg You, the pandemic-born weekend popup inside the shuttered CHIKO on Barracks Row. The eatery is powered by Drewno — former executive chef of The Source and a James Beard Award semifinalist — and his business partner Danny Lee, another James Beard Award semifinalist who founded beloved Korean restaurant Mandu. They collaborate as The Fried Rice Collective, the restaurant group responsible for the wildly popular Chinese–Korean fast-casual chainlet CHIKO and the much-decorated modern Korean restaurant Anju.
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