Sitting above the buzz of Shaw alongside breakout bar Eebee’s, Techo Palma is poised to become the neighborhood’s next weekend day spot, all-night destination.
Behind the transformation is longtime D.C. hospitality veteran Daniel Joseph Hatem, who has spent more than two decades working nearly every role imaginable in the city’s restaurant and nightlife scene since 2003. Now, for the first time, he’s stepping into ownership with a project that is personal.
Inspired by years of traveling to Tulum- “back when it was just dirt roads,” Hatem says-Techo Palma trades ordinary rooftop bar energy for something transportive: open-air windows, jungle textures, eclectic poolside furniture, lush greenery, and the feeling of stumbling into a beach club vacation without ever leaving U Street.