Turkish dessert shop coming to Annandale

Pasha Castle, a dessert, ice cream, and tea shop in Georgetown, is opening a second location in Annandale. The café will open in a building being renovated at 7228 Columbia Pike.

Pasha Castle specializes in Turkish desserts, such as baklava and lokum, a sweet gel-like confectionary made of sugar and starch with various flavors and add-ons like pistachios and chopped dates. It opened at 3279½ M St., N.W. in spring 2023.

The café’s new location in Annandale has already been painted a bright purplish red after Impact Roofing vacated the space and moved to Lorton. Before that, the building housed Kiara Dominican Hairstyle, which has relocated to Backlick Road in Annandale.

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