The question was never which ice cream shop President Joe Biden would first visit in D.C. The question was when Biden would make his way over to Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream. In fact, it was nearly a year-to-the-day from when theColumbus MonthlypublishedJeni’s and Joe Biden: A Love Storythat Biden stopped in to the Barracks Row outpost of the Ohio-based chain for ascoop of chocolate with peanut butter flecks and a scoop of blackout chocolate cakein a waffle cone. Biden’s relationship with the ice cream company’s James Beard Award-winning founder Jeni Britton Bauer goes back at least to 2012. In 2016, the then-vice president evenvisited Jeni’s headquarters in Columbus, Ohio to hold a press conference about wages.

The President and First Lady did date night at Bloomingdale’sessentialpasta parlor on Saturday, February 19. Chef and co-owner Mike Friedman tellsWashingtonianthe couple ordered a few glasses of Italian red (Barbera), grilled bread with cultured butter, sea salt, and shaved radishes, chicory salad, and both got bowls of its best-selling rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu.⁠

First Lady Jill Biden was spotted dining on lobster risotto alongside two dinnertime guests on Tuesday, November 15. It not her first visit to the ever-busy French brasserie from restaurateur Stephen Starr, which has a longstandingreputationfor catering to VIPs. On Memorial Day 2021, the Bidens met Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff for lunch. Harris and Emhoffreturned in the fallfor a leisurely Sunday meal. The President and First Lady also ordered Valentine’s Day takeout in 2023.

Ok, so the Presidentdidn’t go inside, but the motorcade still swung by the Georgetown location of this uber-popular “Jew-ish” deli to place a pickup order for sesame bagels with cream cheese.

President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris enjoyed a meaty lunch from Shaw’s new smash burger bar on Tuesday, January 17. Their delivery order, sent straight to the White House, included two single-patty Ghostburgers—made with American cheese, red onion, pickles, and “spooky sauce”—and two orders of crinkle cut fries. POTUS opted to add bacon to his Ghostburger.

The Bidens have been fans of Fabio Trabocchi’s swanky Italian seafood restaurant in Georgetownsince at least 2014. A 2021 visitcame with a side of controversybecause the presidential couple were photographed walking through the restaurant without wearing protective face masks, a violation of D.C.’s public health mandates at the time.

Just ahead of Valentine’s Day 2021, First Lady Jill Bidenpurchased$100 worth of cupcakes and macarons from this Capitol Hill pastry shop.