Pati Jinich burrito pop-up at Marriott HQ in Bethesda (Photos)

Celebrity chef and author Pati Jinich was at the MI Cafe in the Marriott International headquarters in downtown Bethesda today. The host of public television's Pati's Mexican Table and resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. was hosting a burrito pop-up in the cafe, which serves Marriott employees, but is also open to the public. The pop-up was serving breakfast and lunch burritos, aguas frescas, and desserts. 

This event was sponsored by Marriott Bonvoy, and hopefully is one of more to come. Today's event was a fantastic opportunity to try the cuisine of a celebrity chef who does not yet have restaurants in the area like Gordon Ramsay or José Andrés. But such events would also help lure more Marriott employees back to the underutilized headquarters, as well as further activate the area around the cafe and office/hotel campus.

Burrito in the bag