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DC's Tortilla Coast restaurant (Freedom Caucus hangout) reportedly closing on Capitol Hill July 19th
Link to tweet
Jake Sherman @JakeSherman
Where Ryan waited tables. Where the freedom caucus plotted. Where lots of hill people ate Tex Mex and got loaded.
PoPville @PoPville
Tortilla Coast Reportedly Closing on Capitol Hill July 19th https://popville.com/2020/07/tortilla-coast-reportedly-closing-on-capitol-hill-july-19th/
8:26 AM · Jul 11, 2020
https://www.popville.com/2020/07/tortilla-coast-reportedly-closing-on-capitol-hill-july-19th/
1st and D Street, SE via Tortilla Coast
Oh my goodness. I too tried to call but the phone just rang without being picked up at 7:30pm anyway.
Tortilla Coast is, of course, “A Tex-Mex tradition on Capitol Hill since 1988”
Tortilla Coast closed their Logan Circle location at 15th and P St, NW back in 2017.
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1st and D Street, SE via Tortilla Coast
Link to tweet
Ken Farnaso @KLF
CONFIRMED. I literally just called @tortillacoast to see if it was true. Devastating news.
Ninio Fetalvo @niniofetalvo
Hearing that Tortilla Coast closes on July 19. cc @PoPville
6:43 PM · Jul 10, 2020
Oh my goodness. I too tried to call but the phone just rang without being picked up at 7:30pm anyway.
Tortilla Coast is, of course, “A Tex-Mex tradition on Capitol Hill since 1988”
Tortilla Coast closed their Logan Circle location at 15th and P St, NW back in 2017.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_Coast#Rio_Room
Rio Room
Tortilla Coast's Capitol Hill location is known as a frequent meeting place for members of the United States Congress. Many meetings take place in a private, windowless basement room called the "Rio Room". Texas Senator Ted Cruz hosted Tea Party meetings there in the lead up to the 2013 government shutdown. Media subsequently referred to Republicans meeting there as the "Tortilla Coast Caucus".
Members of the Freedom Caucus have had meetings in Tortilla Coast's basement. The irony of anti-immigration lawmakers meeting at a Tex-Mex restaurant has not been lost on journalists, with The Washington Post also noting "the hilarity of high-level talks going down in a place with a name just stinking of suburban strip-mall kitsch." Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan was a server at the Capitol Hill location in the early 1990s.
The Sunlight Foundation found that Tortilla Coast was among the seven most used venues for political fundraisers.
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Rio Room
Tortilla Coast's Capitol Hill location is known as a frequent meeting place for members of the United States Congress. Many meetings take place in a private, windowless basement room called the "Rio Room". Texas Senator Ted Cruz hosted Tea Party meetings there in the lead up to the 2013 government shutdown. Media subsequently referred to Republicans meeting there as the "Tortilla Coast Caucus".
Members of the Freedom Caucus have had meetings in Tortilla Coast's basement. The irony of anti-immigration lawmakers meeting at a Tex-Mex restaurant has not been lost on journalists, with The Washington Post also noting "the hilarity of high-level talks going down in a place with a name just stinking of suburban strip-mall kitsch." Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan was a server at the Capitol Hill location in the early 1990s.
The Sunlight Foundation found that Tortilla Coast was among the seven most used venues for political fundraisers.
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some meeting rooms available in the basement of Comet Ping Pong Pizza.
GOTV!