Days of Our Lines: An Abridged History of Standing and Waiting For Food

If waiting in line is the favorite pastime of D.C. food-trend chasers, then the queue to get cereal milk soft-serve and crack pie from Momofuku Milk Bar is practically an attraction itself. Washingtonians have a long history of waiting in absurdly long lines for the cool new restaurant or pop-up. Please observe:

Waiting in line for Rose's Luxury:

Waiting in line for Little Serow:

Waiting in line for Georgetown Cupcake:

There's no way any cupcake is worth that line, right?

A photo posted by Michael Brown (@mfb136) on Oct 24, 2015 at 2:42pm PDT

Waiting in line for Buredo:

Waiting for Republic Kolache:

And we're open for business! Crowds lining up so get here soon !

A photo posted by Republic Kolache (@republickolache) on Aug 22, 2015 at 7:10am PDT

Waiting for Dacha Beer Garden:

I love @DachaBeerGarden but that line is out of control. Best neighborhood in #DC #WeAreShaw #Beer #LizTaylor pic.twitter.com/ceG5BVhZcp

— Steven Cruz (@StevenCruz) May 2, 2015

Waiting for GCDC:

Waiting for Baked & Wired:

바글바글 컵케이크 맛집 #bakedandwired #georgetown

A photo posted by Eunkyung Shin (@iam_eks) on Oct 18, 2015 at 4:21pm PDT

Waiting for the Bad Saint pop-up:

#badsaintdc pop-up restaurant @dolcezzagelato factory. Some 500 people came out for filipino food. pic.twitter.com/A7uKxsk8hr

— Ben de la Cruz (@bendelacruz) November 10, 2014

Rose's Luxury photo by Darrow Montgomery. Milk Bar line photo by Tatiana Cirisano. Other non-Instagram and Twitter photos by Jessica Sidman.