Post's Top 40 DC Dishes List Misses Silver Spring

For a Washingtonian looking for the 40 dishes he or she must eat in the area, none of those tasty vittles are to be found in Silver Spring, according to The Washington Post's list of "40 dishes Washingtonians shouldn't live without in 2013," released Thursday. 

Post editors taste tested dishes at restaurants throughout the DC region to develop the list, sifting through hundreds of reader nominations. The fried potato tots at , the fried chicken with spiced salt and basil at Rockville's Jumbo Jumbo Cafe and the Mongolian beef with cumin at Joe's Noodle House, also in Rockvile, all made the list.

The three were the only county restaurants represented this year, a departure from last year's list, in which significantly more Montgomery County restaurants were spotlighted—from Potomac and Gaithersburg to Silver Spring.

In 2012, Silver Spring restaurants made the list not once, but three times, with Parkway Deli at 8317 Grubb Rd., the crabcake at Crisfield Seafood at 8012 Georgia Ave. and Chaat samosa at Kabob n Karahi at 15521 New Hampshire Ave. (There was also the margarita at El Nopalito Grill, technically listed as Silver Spring, but decidely more Aspen Hill, 2259 Bel Pre Rd.) 

What Silver Spring dishes should no Washingtonian live without? Should more Montgomery County restaurants have been represented in this year's list? Tell us in the comments.