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.
2 editor picks for Maydan-style fire-cooked flatbread and dips in Washington DC, ranked by editorial score. All Washington DC signature dishes · Maydan-style fire-cooked flatbread and dips across every city.
Maydan ★ 4.7
logan-circle · 1346 Florida Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009
Maydan in Washington DC is Rose Previte's James Beard award-winner above 14th Street, a courtyard around a live-fire pit serving North African.
Albi ★ 4.7
navy-yard · 1346 4th St SE, Washington, DC 20003
Albi in Washington DC is Michael Rafidi's Michelin-star Navy Yard Levantine wood-fire dining room on 4th Street SE, a one-Michelin-star kitchen with a James.