Immigrants Heritage Pointless Prize

[camiller]

Kanpai Sushi Carry Out was established in 1987 in Glen Echo, MD. The owner went on to open Tako Grill, a Japanese Restaurant in Bethesda, the next year. Per the Washington Post, “Kanpai Sushi Carryout, in the Glen Echo Seafood Market, Specialties: Sushi assortment platter, California roll, bluefin tuna roll, sushi and sashimi combo, chirashi (an assortment of sashimi on a bed of sushi rice), party platters, as well as special catering orders.”

You really have to know what you are looking for when trying to find this restaurant. The sign on the outside was pretty nondescript but when I opened the door into a lobby area, I found the restaurant. The only way I knew it was the restaurant I was looking for was from the paper sign on the door indicating they were closed on Mondays.

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Mariachis Tequileria & Restaurant
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I ate here after a ride with Kelley Westenhoff last year and the food was delicious. They serve authentic Mexican food, “signature margaritas,” and occasionally have live music. Their location is 9428 Battle Street, Manassas.

[camiller]

I wasn’t sure what I was going to find on my WWO Monuments and Museums ride today. But then, I started doing research on who designed these monuments. It turns out the architect for the WWII Memorial, Friedrich St. Florian, was born in the Austrian city of Graz in 1932. He moved to the US in 1961 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1973. His most prestigious project is probably the design of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S., which he won against 400 entries in 1997.

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[Sophie CW]

At the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, “Chair Formation Number 20B” by Lucas Samaras, who emigrated with his family from Greece to the United States in 1948, settling in West New York, New Jersey.
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La Ong Thai Bistro, 2521 John Milton Dr, Herndon, VA. From their website, they offer a large variety of traditional Thai dishes such as Pad Thai, Num Tok and Pad See Ew.

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The Greek Deli, a popular lunch spot downtown near 19th and L St. Kostas the chef and owner grew up in a small village in Greece, served in the Merchant Marines and Greek Navy, before immigrating to the US and opening the Greek Deli. With lines out the door for lunch he can be a little gruff like the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld in order to keep things moving. They recently celebrated 30 years of hard work and success and he hopes to serve for another 30 years!

[camiller]

Vocelli Pizza — The Vocelli Story begins in a mining town in Zonguldak, Turkey where Varol Ablak was born. His father was a mining engineer, so Varol’s childhood was spent moving from one mining town to another as his dad followed the work. The family moved a lot and eventually ended up in the United States in 1969. Varol planned to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an engineer, but after he completed three years of college in the industrial engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh, he decided the engineering life was not for him. Wanting to start his own business and fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit, he left college in search of a more rewarding path.

At 24 years old, Varol initially got involved with an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet franchise in Chalmette, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. After opening several franchises and with the pizza delivery industry skyrocketing, he decided to sell his franchises and go back to Pittsburgh to launch a new business focusing on delivery and a much higher quality pizza. On January 30th, 1988, Varol and his family opened the first Vocelli Pizza store in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh. That same year they opened a second location in McMurray, and a third location in Oakland came just four months later. Over the next four years, there would be 20 restaurants open in the Pittsburgh area. The focus on a high-quality pizza delivered and an aggressive marketing plan quickly put the small company on a path to success. They went on to franchise their business. Today, Vocelli Pizza has approximately 2,000 employees and over 100 stores open and in development.

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Al Nakheel Lebanese Cafe and Grocery is a cafe, market and pastry shop. They offer Middle Eastern groceries, fresh Halal meats, and freshly imported Baklawa.

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[bikedavid]

Back before many of these fancy taco places there was Pica Taco

[Sophie CW]

Yetka market was started in 1979 by a father and his brother to offer Persian groceries. But now they have a kabob bar with lots of other yummy foods too. http://www.yekta.com/about
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[camiller]

Chopsticks is a Chinese restaurant in the Huntsman Shopping Center. Shang Liu is listed as a contact for this restaurant.

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From their website, “A gastronomical journey to India…. In our quest to follow the footprints of Indian cuisine, we found influences from cultures all over the world. We want to accentuate those origins and let people taste them through food.”

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[Serdar]

@camiller 216984 wrote:

Vocelli Pizza — The Vocelli Story begins in a mining town in Zonguldak, Turkey where Varol Ablak was born. His father was a mining engineer, so Varol’s childhood was spent moving from one mining town to another as his dad followed the work. The family moved a lot and eventually ended up in the United States in 1969. Varol planned to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an engineer, but after he completed three years of college in the industrial engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh, he decided the engineering life was not for him. Wanting to start his own business and fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit, he left college in search of a more rewarding path.

At 24 years old, Varol initially got involved with an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet franchise in Chalmette, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. After opening several franchises and with the pizza delivery industry skyrocketing, he decided to sell his franchises and go back to Pittsburgh to launch a new business focusing on delivery and a much higher quality pizza. On January 30th, 1988, Varol and his family opened the first Vocelli Pizza store in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh. That same year they opened a second location in McMurray, and a third location in Oakland came just four months later. Over the next four years, there would be 20 restaurants open in the Pittsburgh area. The focus on a high-quality pizza delivered and an aggressive marketing plan quickly put the small company on a path to success. They went on to franchise their business. Today, Vocelli Pizza has approximately 2,000 employees and over 100 stores open and in development.

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What a story! I love it.

[Sophie CW]

Authentic & yummy jerk chicken and stewed oxtail from Jamaica:
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[Serdar]

@camiller 216772 wrote:

I am pretty sure this is the place that Serdar mentioned while we were on the Fairfax City ImHer ride. The Sultan Gourmet Market is kind of hidden on a side street in Fairfax (Warwick Avenue). I never knew that this place existed. I cannot read anything on their Facebook page so cannot tell you much about it. Per an article in the Northern Virginia Magazine, https://northernvirginiamag.com/food/food-features/2017/08/16/provisions-sultan-gourmet-market/ this is the place to go to find the obscure ingredients you need for your Mediterranean and Turkish cooking needs. The 2017 article states that the owner is Halit Bozlagan.

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Yes, that’s exactly the place I mentioned, Cathy. They sell good meat and their butcher is very nice.

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