Lechón Smokehouse calls itself a “Latin BBQ & Bar,” according to its Instagram. The restaurant, located at 11 Merwin St. in the Waypointe district, opened its doors on June 26. On July 2 ...

But the star of the spread—and of any Filipino party—is the crackly, golden-skinned roast pig known as lechon. Spanish colonizers in the 1600s chose that name to describe the suckling pigs they saw ...

The District, Maryland, and Virginia have long fostered a thriving Filipino community who could get their fix of lumpia (skinny egg rolls) and lechon kawali (crispy pork belly) from diners and turo ...