“Dolan” is the traditional name of a tribe of Uyghur people in Central Asia. At Dolan, we strive to help preserve, celebrate, and share an integral part of Uyghur culture: food.
Hamid Kerim, who worked in international trade, fled from northwest China in 2017 and opted to start anew in the D.C. region with a career as a restaurateur. He bought Dolan Uyghur, whose Cleveland Park location is shown here, in late 2018 from another Uyghur family who had founded it.