Maydan Fire Bread appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Maydan-style fire-cooked flatbread and dips · Washington DC
Stretchy round breads pulled fresh off a wood-fired tabun oven, served with smoky hummus, baba ghanoush, muhammara and labneh. The DC fire-cooking template.
Maydan opened in November 2017 on Florida Avenue NW with a central wood-fired hearth ringed by the kitchen line. Bon Appetit and Food and Wine both named it among the best new restaurants of 2018, and the James Beard Foundation made it a Best New Restaurant semifinalist that year. The bread is the structural element of the meal: stretched and clapped onto the tabun's hot stone, ballooning and char-spotting in under a minute. Albi by chef Michael Rafidi extends the Levantine-DC canon; Rafidi took the 2024 James Beard Outstanding Chef award.
Where to eat in Washington DC:
- Maydan
- Albi