Washington DC is undoubtedly one of the most international cities you can find.
This has of course resulted in a myriad of international restaurants and eateries. Greek, Ethiopian, Jamaican, Peruvian, Mexican (the southerners claim there are no good Mexican restaurants in this area, but that’s a different story), Italian, French, Vietnamese…you name it!
However, when I did a Yelp search for Norwegian food I came up completely empty handed. Widening my search for Scandinavian food I got two hits.
One was IKEA (oh yeah, meatballs and lingonberry sauce served up in a furniture store apparently counts as a restaurant).
The other one was a Polish Scandinavian hybrid, serving a random mix of Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish meatballs and Norwegian pancakes…
In other words, if you feel like opening up a Scandinavian restaurant in DC you have approximately zero competition. On the other hand it can be question whether there really is a great market for lutefisk and smalahove (sheep’s head)…
The famous Norwegian dish lutefisk. Does it make your mouth water?
Doesn't smalahove - sheep's head - look like a delicious choice for Sunday dinner?
Pancakes and the City 
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