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Outdoor Food Hall Smorgasburg Opens Saturday in Navy Yard

More than 35 local vendors are bringing falafel, dumplings, and arepas to the Southeast waterfront.

Written by Daniella Byck
| Published on June 14, 2019
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New York's open air market is coming to DC on Saturday. Photograph courtesy of Smorgasburg.
New York's open air market is coming to DC on Saturday. Photograph courtesy of Smorgasburg.

Brooklyn’s wildly popular outdoor food market, Smorgasburg, is coming to Navy Yard’s Tingey Plaza on Saturday, June 15 with more than 35 DC-area vendors. The marketplace will host chefs and producers serving boa buns, mumbo sauce poutine, Filipino desserts, and much more each Saturday from 11 AM to 6 PM through October. Attendees can also hang out in a beer, wine, and cider garden.

“We really think of it as an incubator,” says Smorgasburg co-founder Jonathan Butler. “The most exciting thing is when there’s a chef who has been working in the shadows for someone else for a few years but has these ambitions to start something herself or himself. This becomes a way for them to do that.”

Nashville hot chicken sandwiches are on the menu at Hot Lola’s, a participating vendor at Smorgasburg DC. Photograph courtesy of Hot Lola’s.

Established brick and mortar spots like Timber Pizza and Roy Boys are pitching their tents alongside food trucks, farmers market regulars, food hall concepts, and catering companies. Smorgasburg is also the debut of Skew’d, a coal-fired yakitori stand courtesy of Sushi Taro’s chef Nobu Yamazaki. 

Smorgasburg originated in Brooklyn, where the outdoor emporium has swelled to 100 vendors and spawned four locations in New York. DC and Los Angeles are the only other cities Smorgasburg has expanded to outside of the Big Apple.

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Chaia is bringing their vegetarian tacos to Tingey Plaza on Saturday. Photograph courtesy of Chaia.

Butler recommends attending the market with a group, splitting off to pick up from different stands, and then sharing the dishes small plates style. 

His personal plan of action is to start at Cracked Eggery for breakfast sandwiches, scope out handmade corn tortilla tacos at Rebel Taco, and then grab a Nashville hot chicken sandwich for lunch at Hot Lola’s. Check out the list of vendors to design your own Smorgasburg eating agenda:

Arepa Zone

Balo Kitchen and Pho Wheels

Bay Pearl

The Berliner

Bun’d Up

Chaia

Cracked Eggery

Criosho

Eat 170

Ekiben

Gwenie’s Pastries

Hilana Falafel

Hot Lola’s

Kuya Ja’s Lechon

Lei Musubi

Lei’d Hawaiian Poke

Lost Sock Roasters

Mastiha

Milk Cult

New Standard Sandwich

Otabe

Pinch Dumplings

Rebel Taco

Roy Boys

Ruby Scoops

Senzu Juicery

Seylou

Skew’d

Sloppy Mama’s BBQ

SnoCream Company

Spot of Tea

Sweet Crimes

Swizzler

Timber Pizza

Uzu 9

Z&Z Za’atar

Smorgasburg. Tingey Plaza. Open Saturday 11 AM to 6 PM. 

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Daniella Byck joined Washingtonian in 2022. She was previously with Outside Magazine and lives in NoMa.

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