Join us for Filipino Flavors at Purple Patch!

You're invited to a delightful evening of Filipino flavors at Purple Patch in DC! Join us for a culinary journey that celebrates the vibrant and diverse cuisine of the Philippines.

** The small non-refundable registration fee helps us share the cost associated with the Meet-Up platform ($360/yr) and reduces the likelihood of no-shows, allowing us to better plan our events and accommodate all participants. Meetup charges $0.51 and Paypal charges $0.53 on the $2 registration fee. Thanks in advance for your understanding!**

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From The Washington Post:

Remember when lumpia — spring rolls filled with beef and pork — represented what a lot of diners knew about Filipino food? New emissaries, including this two-floor Mount Pleasant hideaway, are helping expand our horizons (and vocabulary) with adobo and sisig. The first is braised chicken flavored with vinegar and soy sauce and fleshed out with potatoes. The second is a sputtering stir-fry of chopped pork, bird's-eye chilies and sweet onions that play-wrestles with your tongue until you cry "uncle" — or finish off the dish, crowned with a fried egg.

Sour accents get a lot of use, as in sinigang, a strapping soup crowded with braised pork, potato chunks and long green beans that doesn't stint on the lemon juice. The lumpia, made by the owner's mom and flown in from her home in Texas, are exemplary. Don't just take my recommendation. Staff at the Philippine Embassy come here for a taste of home, too.

Ambition. Resilience. Grace.

The best restaurants, in addition to serving food people want to return for, embody those traits.

As I ate my way around the region for this year’s annual fall dining guide, I returned several times to Purple Patch in Mount Pleasant. Yes, it’s convenient to where I live, and yes, the Filipino cooking is very much to my taste. (No place makes finer lumpia.) New restaurants sometimes have an advantage over established players in that young places often have energy to burn and tastemakers tend to lavish attention on them. Purple Patch opened in 2015, which, in restaurant terms, is practically middle age. Yet my visits over the summer revealed a destination that has only blossomed during its run, so much so that I’m naming it my Restaurant of the Year.

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To enhance the opportunity for great conversation, we would like to keep the group small. Please feel free to sign-up to meet us along with up to 2 friends.

In the future, we will vary the days of the week and the types of restaurants so that we can attract many different types of diners.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE COMMITTED TO GO WHEN YOU RSVP FOR THIS EVENT. Feel free to make suggestions for future meet locations. All diners will pay their own tab.

If you are unable to join us in June we hope you'll stay interested and join us for a meal in the future. Looking forward to catching up with you for dinner at Purple Patch!