Restaurants pray for a review like this. They don’t always realize what comes next.
, which ran in January 2022, probably saved the restaurant, Asad said. “The day that piece came out, I swear, the electric guy was out front to cut off our power.”
But nothing has compared to the response following Carman’s list of the area’s best casual restaurants, which features a Maryland pupuseria, a three-outlet Chongqing noodle chain, and, right there at No. 1, Charga. The photo accompanying the piece shows Asad and Iqbal smiling proudly—a little nervously?—in the restaurant’s small kitchen.“Honestly, I cried. I was super, super happy,” he told me. Regulars love to dap him up and congratulate him on his accomplishment. “No. 1, baby,” Asad says to them. “The first halal restaurant at No. 1.”Seven p.m. Twenty-three tickets on the line, and another five hanging out of the printer.
A group of five twentysomethings enter in a blast of frozen air, phones out, laughing loudly. They came from D.C. “Hey, I just want to make sure you know,” Asad tells them, “it’s gonna be 45, 50 minutes. I don’t want nobody cussing me out like last night.” They depart, phones still out, now searching for somewhere else to eat.And now, everything grinds to a halt. Something’s gone wrong in the kitchen, and Asad has stopped moving for the first time all night.
Landing at No. 1 on the Washington Post list, Asad said, represents his best chance to take his restaurant to the next level, if he moves quickly and acts smart. “Even with that review last year, we were still in COVID debt,” he said. “Now we’ve paid off the water and the gas. All that’s left is the rent.” They pay the landlord an extra grand every month to chip away at that debt and expect to be square by the end of the year.
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