College Park favorite Taqueria Habanero has expanded to a new D.C. food hall just off Rhode Island Avenue.

Located at 670 Rhode Island Ave. NE, near the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the new location at the Bryant Street Market serves a slimmed-down but similar menu as their popular sit-down restaurants including a location in Columbia Heights.

The new location is managed by Yicela Alvarado, the oldest daughter of owners Dionicio Montero and Mirna Montero-Alvarado, who moved from Puebla and El Salvador to D.C., where they first started the taqueria. Its College Park location was recently named the Best Latin American Restaurant in the Hyattsville Wire’s annual reader’s poll.

She said the food hall is part of the next step for the family-run business.

“We want to maintain that traditional aspect, but we’re the first generation born here in America, so not everything has to be traditional,” she said recently.

The Bryant food hall, which first opened in March, includes Bar Alegria, which is also brought to you by the Montero family, along with a poke bowl stand, a dumpling place and a bubble tea spot.

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