It’s Restaurant Week and Gabe Vasquez Is Lost in Champagne Problems
It’s restaurant week in Washington D.C., and out-of-touch elitist Gabe Vasquez is ready to dive into a Champagne Problems feast of expensive dining.
Democrat Gabe Vasquez took to social media claiming he was different than other Members of Congress because he fished on the Anacostia River rather than going to ‘fancy dinners.’
A report showed that Gabe Vasquez was lying.
Vasquez has spent “over $7,000 since 2023 at restaurants, including some hundreds or even thousands of miles from his district in D.C., New York City, Santa Monica, Calif., and Jackson, Wyo.”
“When out of touch Democrat Gabe Vasquez isn’t hiding behind a mask to criticize law enforcement or voting to allow criminal illegal immigrants to endanger New Mexicans, he’s dining with liberal elites. Vasquez will surely miss his fancy dinners once he loses his seat next year.” – NRCC spokesman Zach Bannon
Read more from The Washington Free Beacon here or see excerpts below:
Dem Rep Gabe Vasquez Denounced ‘Fancy Dinners’ While Spending Thousands in Campaign Cash at Swanky Restaurants
The Washington Free Beacon
Jameson Mitrovich
August 4, 2025
Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D., N.M.) recently denounced “fancy dinners,” saying he instead prefers catching fish in D.C.’s Anacostia River. That claim seems to be at odds with the thousands of dollars he’s spent at swanky restaurants across the country since taking office.
Campaign finance records show Vasquez, one of the most vulnerable House Democrats, has spent over $7,000 since 2023 at restaurants, including some hundreds or even thousands of miles from his district in D.C., New York City, Santa Monica, Calif., and Jackson, Wyo.
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In June 2024, Vasquez spent nearly $300 at the Duck and the Peach on Capitol Hill. The restaurant, which the Washington Post described as an “all-day restaurant with a California-lilt,” boasts beluga caviar, a $98 duck entree, and a $140 porterhouse steak. The congressman dropped more than $400 this spring at another California-inspired restaurant in D.C., Sonoma, which offers a $130 meat and cheese board.
Vasquez, who in April said focusing on local concerns is “at the core of what Democrats need to get back to doing,” also spent over $200 in May 2024 at Shirube, a Santa Monica sushi spot that’s just a short walk from the beach—and nearly 800 miles from his district. The Japanese restaurant sports sake bottles for as much as $300.
In Jackson, Vasquez shelled out nearly $500 at two restaurants while visiting the swanky billionaire enclave, some 1,100 miles from his district, in August 2024. He beat that distance in June with a $220 visit to La Pecora Bianca, an upscale Italian restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, roughly 2,100 miles away.
The vulnerable congressman’s expensive dinners fly in the face of the everyman image he is eager to display. While holding a freshly caught catfish in a July video, Vasquez said, “A lot of people like to eat fancy dinners, expensive dinners. I like to come out here and fish on the Anacostia River or the Potomac and catch some nice, little blue catfish.” (The D.C. Department of Energy and Environment recommends a maximum of three servings per month of blue catfish from D.C.-area waters because of chemical contaminants.)
Vasquez’s meal spending could cost him on the campaign trail as he aims to win over his largely working-class district. He’s already facing an uphill battle as 1 of the 13 House Democrats defending a district that President Donald Trump won last year. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in March added him to its Frontline program, which provides additional funding to vulnerable Democrats.
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Vasquez did not respond to a request for comment.