Tasting Journal

Taste of Wheaton

For all you area foodies that couldn’t make it to the Taste of Wheaton, you sure missed out! Wheaton, MD is home to hundreds of diverse restaurants ranging from authentic Thai to Scottish to Burmese cuisines, and many more in between. This annual event took place in downtown Wheaton, at Grandview Avenue and Reedie Drive, on May 21, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

In Wheaton, you won’t find flashy upscale chains restaurants or small trendy food establishments. What you will find, however, are tasty “hole in the wall” cafés and family-owned restaurants. Service isn’t always spectacular, and organization isn’t always as prevalent as some of the fancier dining venues, but I guarantee that you’ll experience mouthfuls of authentic flavors and tasty textures.

Some of this year’s participating restaurants included Peacock Burmese Restaurant, Los Cobanos, Royal Mile Pub, Saigonese, Hollywood East Café, Pollo Sabroso, Sabang Indonesian Restaurant, Suporn’s Thai Restaurant, and Chicago Bakery Inc. Samples were $1, and that’s an absolute steal considering how big the portions were! Some “tastes” were literally full plates of food! Roman and I shared each sample so that our stomachs wouldn’t fill up so quickly.

We treated ourselves to pork and cheese pupusas, orange chicken, spring rolls, Guinness chili, and a berry salad with a raspberry-walnut dressing, among others. I was a bit disappointed with the restaurant turnout. Only about couple dozen participated in the event. There were also a handful of non-standard restaurants however, such as Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks. Roman and I really wanted to have our picture taken with Dunkin Donut’s over-sized walking coffee cup. Unfortunately we weren’t able to flag him down.

So if you missed the Taste of Wheaton this year, be sure to check it out next year. The annual event normally takes place the first Sunday after Mother’s Day.

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