Step into Emma’s Torch and you’ll feel like you’re coming home. It’s the perfect spot for a delicious meal and great conversation with friends, and with your neighbors at the next table over. This sunlit, cheerful breakfast and lunch spot in the Woodridge neighborhood, on Rhode Island Avenue, is already known for its egg and cheese biscuits, which are somehow deliciously flaky and creamy at the same time, and for its unforgettably airy chai spiced doughnuts. We highly recommend cutting the doughnuts into chunks and dunking them in the delicious Zeke’s coffee that is served here!

The café is bustling with cooks and servers, who are learning the ropes of the restaurant business as part of a refugee skills training mission, but they make no mistakes under the guiding hand of their manager as they happily fill their customers’ requests. Emma’s Torch has an 88% success rate in sending their trainees on to jobs elsewhere, and you can see why with the hearty food and great customer service.

Bring friends and family, try out the shakshuka on a bed of rice, the spicy steak and eggs, the oversize cookies or vegan banana bread, and come join in the widening circle of customers who call Emma’s Torch home.

Emma’s Torch Café
2212 Rhode Island Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20018