The greater Washington area is a haven for cheap, authentic food from pretty much any country you can imagine. But Dominican restaurants remain rare.

The best known, Los Hermanos in D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood, is so good that many of the Dominican professional baseball players who come to town have an order delivered to their hotel rooms.

But a new Riverdale Park restaurant may give it a run for the money.

Tucked into a nondescript building at 6033 Baltimore Ave., across from Shagga Ethiopian restaurant, Carbon y Leña serves all the classics of Dominican cuisine, with some dishes adorned with a tiny Dominican flag on top. And what the restaurant lacks in space it makes up in authentic housemade food.

For breakfast, there’s Los Tres Golpes, a dish of plantains, fried eggs, fried salami and fried cheese. There’s also an entire section for mofongo, a popular staple dish in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, that’s made with mashed green plantains and served with everything from fried pork rinds to lobster. Then there are traditional appetizers like quipe and pastelitos.

They also stock Country Club, one of the most popular sodas in the Dominican Republic, which comes in glass bottles in colorful flavors like frambuesa (raspberry) and merengue.

And, appropriately for a restaurant whose name means charcoal and firewood, there are plenty of meat dishes.

Owned by Greenbelt resident Leidy Lissette Ramirez, Carbon y Leña hasn’t yet gotten noticed by the cheap eats-obsessed D.C. media since it opened last year. But with authentic, housemade food like this and stellar reviews, it’s only a matter of time.

Carbon y Leña is open seven days a week from 10 a.m.-10 p.m.