Julia's Empanadas - Washington

The food was just ok, I ordered the chorizo, beef, and two dessert strawberry and I think coconut. I couldn't tell the difference between the chorizo or beef. I wouldn't recommend. Street parking was available

I got an empanada and a salteña (which was really just an empanada with salteña filling) and was disappointed. They were really expensive and not super tasty.

This used to be one of my favorite lunchtime spots when I worked downtown DC. No joke, I was there at least one day each week. I 'd take that 30 minute round trip walk from my office regularly. There weren 't too many places in downtown DC where you could eat for under $10 and healthy at that. For about $6.50 you can cop the special of an empanada, a soup and a salad. My typical trip to Julia 's would be to get a Jamaican style empanada (ground chopped beef, onion, potato, curry, spices), a black bean soup and tomato, cucumber celery salad. After a while I started adding another $2 to that special and getting one of the dessert empanadas. They have varieties like strawberry, pineapple coconut and apple. But my 'off the chains gotta have it knock em out the box ' favorite dessert empanada is the peach/guava. It is slamm-min!!!! I discovered Julia 's Empanadas back in like '96. Every Wednesday I was up in the Adams Morgan area would hit up the location on 18th. I was thrilled to see the guy who worked at that location become the manager of the Dupont Circle location. I couldn 't honestly tell you his real name, but I always called him Ray. Real cool dude. Julia 's has me as a lifelong customer. Believe that.

Best Empanadas after a night out. Great service and quality. Very soft outside with lots of meat/filling inside. 10/10 would eat again

Both Spinach and Chilean empanada were good! The dough was well baked