If you've been to any bar or brunch in the DC area, you'll notice that tator tots are a regular feature on the menu. What started this popularity resurgence is hard to say. Perhaps it was "Napoleon Dynamite" and the awkward ramblings of a bespectacled awkward teen from nowhere U.S.A. Perhaps someone thought "cafeteria chic" was the wave of the future for dining out. In any case, I'm happy the tots are here to stay. It's the familiarity of simplistic eating from my youth, with jacked up DC prices. Life coming full circle.
My friend Scott and I have often said we should do a tot crawl in our neighborhood to hit all the places with tator tots on the menu. Sadly, these places are not close to each other, or tots are only on the breakfast menu. I discovered another potential place to get my personal favorite, sweet potato tots, Sticky Rice on H Street.
Their big buckets of tots with dipping sauces have been a staple at the bar for years, but on a recent trip there I discovered they now offer a smaller version, made of sweet potatoes, with a great Asian dipping sauce. This served as the precursor to a great sushi meal, but these fried little nuggets of goodness were top of my list for this outing. And after covering about 10 miles of ground near the National Mall, we'd earned it. Sweet mother of tot.
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