Gharer Khabar, 5151 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA, 703-973-2432
A new Bangladeshi place which isn’t quite ready, but is open and excellent. I found they were surprised when a) I walked in the door, and b) I asked for a menu. After a bit of Monty Python back and forth a’la “Cheese Shop,” I discovered that currently the menu only serves two kinds of biryanis. But they’re both very good, extremely fragrant and delicate. I am told at some point the main chef is coming back from Bangladesh, then we will see what happens. But right now this is a place I will revisit. It is also one of the two or three cheapest places on this whole list.
Yes, sweet people. This place deserves to succeed, but it’s kind of easy to overlook in that strip. There’s a bigger Bangladeshi place just a few stores away; that must make for the most intense concentration of Bangladeshi restaurants almost anywhere. Except for Bangladesh, of course.
I haven’t yet had their biryanis; my appetite was less ambitious. The appetizers are good.