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Glen Echo Park Ballroom Cafe Set For New Season

Bethesda's the Brown Bag will be returning as the park's concessions operator.

Mark your calendars. The Ballroom Cafe at Glen Echo Park will re-open for the season Friday, April 5.

Returning for its second season behind the Ballroom Cafe counter is Bethesda-based chainlet the Brown Bag. The Brown Bag took over as concessions operator last April after a push to shift control for food vending at the park from the National Park Service to Montgomery County.

The Brown Bag opened in Bethesda in 2002 and has quickly expanded throughout the Washington, DC, region.

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With a tagline of “honest food,” the chainlet offers made-to-order food with a focus on fresh ingredients, founder Erich Fuldner told Patch last year.

“Our salads are a different – they’re more gourmet. We have items like edamame and goat cheese, which you don’t find in regular sandwich shop,” Fuldner said. “Our dressing is made from scratch – with our cilantro-lime dressing, we use fresh-squeezed lime. People wonder why it tastes so good – we just use the real product.”

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The Ballroom Cafe menu will include sandwiches and wraps, salads, Mediterranean plates and cheese plates, desserts, ice cream and coffee drinks.

Glen Echo Park officials told Patch the cafe caters both to neighbors in search of a new lunch option and the park's vibrant dance and art communities.

The cafe will be open Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Fridays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

It will operate through October.

If you're hungry for more Brown Bag fare, you can stop by the downtown Bethesda location or catch up with the eatery's new food truck. 

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