Moroni & Brothers Restaurant
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$ - inexpensive
Mexican, Pizza
vegan-friendly pizza and Mexican/Salvadorian food
This is a small, family-owned eatery specializing in gourmet wood-fired pizzas, which can be made with vegan cheese (Chicago Soy Dairy's "Teese") upon request. They also have an extensive Mexican and Salvadorian menu, but most of the vegan options are limited to sides like fried yuca, plantains, and pupusas (corn pancakes with cheese--which you can specify to be vegan).
This restaurant was started by the dish washers and prep cooks from the DuPont Circle Pizzaria Paradiso, and is widely considered to be better. They have a large seating area, including outdoor seating, a bar, and a juke box including the greatest hits from Barry White, Byonce, U2, and all your favorite cumbia and ranchero all-stars.
Georgia Ave Petworth station
- Kid-Friendly
- Large Group-Friendly
- Outdoor Seating
Added by Cass Danger on Aug 16 08 (updated Aug 16 08)
I am SOOOOOOOOOOO impressed with this place. The food is great, the service is excellent, and the music is wonderful (assuming you like Mexican polka music, which I do :) ).
We ordered a number of different veggie pizzas with the soy cheese, and also had the fried yuca and plantains, along with some pupusas. I was astounded that they could make vegan pupusas (cornmeal pancakes with cheese), using the soy cheese, as I have always wanted a vegan pupusa but never seen soy cheese in an El Salvadorian restaurant.
I was also really impressed with how calm and sweet the staff was, as we walked in with a group of about 25 vegans, and pretty much took over the dining room and ate all their vegan cheese (we tipped well).