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Ben’s Chili Bowl

Ben's Chili Bowl is a restaurant in , United States, located at 1213 U Street, next to , in the U Street Corridor, also known as the Cardozo/Shaw neighborhood in Northwest D.C.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday: 11:00 AM—9:00 PM
    Tuesday: 11:00 AM—9:00 PM
    Wednesday: 11:00 AM—9:00 PM
    Thursday: 11:00 AM—11:00 PM
    Friday: 11:00 AM—4:00 AM
    Saturday: 11:00 AM—4:00 AM
    Sunday: 11:00 AM—10:00 PM
  • Type: Fast food restaurant
  • Cuisine: American
  • Description: restaurant in Washington, D. C., originally a movie theater
  • Also known as: “Dudley Theater”, “Minnehaha Theater”, and “Minnehaha Theatre”
  • Address: 1213 U Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009-4442

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lincoln Theatre and Harrison Recreation Center.

Theater building
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is a historic theater in , located at 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway", served the city's African American community when segregation kept them out of other venues.

Park
Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0.
is a park.

Building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is an historic building constructed for the Grand United Order of True Reformers, an African American organization founded by William Washington Browne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Logan Circle and Shaw.

Neighborhood
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of , located in Northwest D.C. The majority of is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.

Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.
is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of and south of and . Although it has a diverse population, is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.

Suburb
Photo: D Monack, Public domain.
Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and are three bordering neighborhoods in Washington DC, each with a different character, but united in an unmistakable sense of dynamism, diversity, youth, and nightlife.

Ben’s Chili Bowl

Latitude
38.91716° or 38° 55′ 2″ north
Longitude
-77.02877° or 77° 1′ 44″ west
Open location code
87C4WX8C+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 487493227
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­fast_food
Open­Street­Map attribute
cuisine=­american
Wiki­data ID
Q2895279
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Ben’s Chili Bowl” goes by many names.

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