Twelve restaurants across the District, Maryland and Virginia that appear on their certifying body’s own published list — the Vaad of Greater Washington or DC Kosher — read directly from those lists on 28 July 2026, with the meat, dairy or pareve category each body publishes. We certify nothing. We mirror the certifier, and we link it.
There is no clever sourcing here and there shouldn’t be. Kosher supervision is a determination made by a certifying body and published by that body. Our entire job is to read the list, record the date, and hand you the link.
Vaad of Greater Washington — certified restaurants →
DC Kosher — establishments under certification →
Both lists read 28 July 2026
Category matters more than most lists admit: a meat kitchen serves no dairy, a dairy kitchen serves no meat, and pareve is neither — which changes both what you can order and what you can eat afterwards.
Listed by the Vaad at 2142 L St NW, at L Street, 22nd and New Hampshire Avenue, in the meat category. A kosher steakhouse. One caution we want in writing: a meat-category certification is a statement about religious supervision, not about allergens. If you are avoiding dairy for medical reasons rather than observance, ask the kitchen directly — do not infer it from the category, and do not infer it from us.
See the Vaad listing →
List read 28 July 2026
The Vaad lists an Oh Mama Grill in Washington DC and a second in Rockville, both meat. Israeli grill.
See the Vaad listing →
List read 28 July 2026
Certified by DC Kosher, which lists two Washington DC locations. Cakepops and rugelach near the zoo.
See the DC Kosher listing →
List read 28 July 2026
DC Kosher lists both the H Street Corridor and Franklin Square locations. Vegan Chinese-American. Also now the route to Bubbie’s Burgers — see the note below, which is the most useful thing on this page.
See the DC Kosher listing →
List read 28 July 2026
The density is in Montgomery County, and it is mostly dairy — pizza, bagels, cafés — with the grills carrying the meat certifications.
Israeli grill, listed by the Vaad in the meat category.
Listed dairy. Pizza and café.
Listed dairy.
Listed meat. Chinese takeout.
Listed dairy in Rockville; the Vaad lists a second Silver Spring location as well.
Listed dairy.
Listed dairy.
Listed by the Vaad in the meat category as a mobile and catering operation rather than a room you can walk into — worth knowing before you drive somewhere.
The Vaad’s current list also names Sticky Fingers Cafe (DC, pareve), Oro Nami Sushi (DC), Café Sunflower (Rockville), Kosher Pastry Oven Cafe (Wheaton), Tovavi Falafel, The PoshMallow and University of Maryland Hillel. We have named them rather than written them up: their certification is the certifier’s to give and it stands on that list whatever we say — we simply have not done our own reading on each one yet.
DC Kosher’s own page records that Bubbie’s Burgers is no longer certified at its Virginia location, and that the product is now sold through Pow Pow on H Street instead. We are repeating that here for one reason: it is the clearest possible demonstration that a kosher list is a photograph, not a promise.
Every list on the internet claiming to rank kosher restaurants was accurate on some day. Almost none of them tell you which day. Ours says 28 July 2026 at the top of the page and beside every entry — and when we re-read the lists, that date moves and the entries move with it. If a venue below has changed status since, the certifier’s page is right and we are stale; their link is on every card for exactly that reason.
When you see the word “verified” on theBEAT, here is exactly what it means: our editors located a named, dated source for that claim — a menu, an allergen guide, a certification listing — and kept the receipt. It means the claim was checked; it does not mean the dish is guaranteed. Kitchens change faster than any database. Verified is where your conversation with the restaurant starts, not where it ends.
A receipt also has a shelf life. Every claim on this page carries the date we read its source, and we re-read on a cycle — so you can always see how fresh a receipt is and judge it for yourself rather than taking a word like “verified” on trust. How the shelf life works →
On this page specifically: theBEAT is an editorial publication and is not a kashrut authority. We do not supervise, inspect, or certify anything. Every venue here was read off the published list of the Vaad of Greater Washington or DC Kosher on the date shown. If your observance depends on it, check the certifier’s page — linked on every card — or call the restaurant.
Spotted something out of date, or run one of these kitchens? Tell us and we will fix it — corrections are published, not quietly patched. More on method: how the tags work.
Also in The Edit: dedicated gluten-free kitchens in the DMV and kitchens that put a nut claim in writing — both built the same way, from the venue’s own published words with the date we read them.
