Friday, May 24, 2013
Restaurant news from around Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods.
Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with 1 Meat, 3 Sides. This week, the Scion Restaurant opening in Silver Spring takes center plate. One meat: Scion Restaurant opened for dinner in Silver Spring (at 1200 East-West Highway) last Wednesday, Silver Spring Patch reported. It's Scion's second location, the first being in Dupont Circle, Patch reported in March. "Though [the Silver Spring location] is suburban and outside of DC, it's such a wonderful neighborhood with the density of the apartments and the condo buildings mixed with enough office space and folks coming to work," Joanne Liu, owner of the original Scion restaurant in Dupont Circle, told Patch. The Silver Spring Scion "…
Officials want to brand the county as a place in which people of all ages will want to live and play.
Relaxing liquor laws, allowing for later last calls for bars and restaurants and allowing more nightlife businesses around Metro stations are just some of the solutions a Montgomery County task force is considering to pump up the county's nighttime economy. Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) addressed the 20-member group at its first meeting Monday in Silver Spring, Bethesda Now reported. While most people like the idea of improving the county's nighttime economy, they might not like what it means, Leggett said. "People say, ‘I like the benefits of that, but I don’t want to deal with the practical effects of that,’ ” he said, Bethesda Now reported. The group’s efforts are not intended to result in “23-year-olds driving down the …
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Peapod grocery pickup location will open in the late summer or early fall, along with a Giant gas station, a Giant Food spokesperson told Patch.
The site of the former Sunoco gas station at 8500 Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase Lake will become a Peapod grocery pickup location as well as a gas station run by Giant Food by late summer or early fall, Giant Food spokesperson Jamie Miller told Patch. Peapod is the home delivery arm of—and sister company to—Giant, Miller explained. While Peapod charges a service fee for home delivery of Giant groceries, there will be no service fee for the pickup of groceries from the grocery pickup location. Read more about the new pickup location in Bethesda Now's article of last week. Setting up a storefront at which Giant/Peapod customers may pick up their groceries is a relatively new idea. Two pickup locations were set up last month—in …
The 1940s-themed restaurant opened this past week, according to its Facebook page.
The much-anticipated opening of Benny's Bar and Grill in the Cabin John Shopping Center is here. The retro-themed restaurant announced on its Facebook page that it would be fully operational starting May 20. On May 17, the restaurant was open for dinner between 6 and 8 p.m. A discount of 25 percent was in effect that evening, as it was a staff training night. The restaurant was open for lunch only on Saturday and was closed on Sunday, according to the restaurant's Facebook page. Going forward, the restaurant (at 7747 Tuckerman Ln., Potomac) will be open for lunch and dinner daily, with breakfast and a carry-out operation coming soon, the Facebook page added. The eatery originally was intended to open closer to the New Year, but permitting…
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Bethesda restaurant—which changed hands briefly earlier this year—was sold back to its previous owner, who says it will not be opened again.
Bethesda's Box Bar & Grill has had a rough year. A few months ago, the Hooters-style restaurant and bar was sold to George Farrell, who re-opened the space as Dry Fried Wings, a family-friendly eatery launched in January with a high-profile kickoff event featuring civil rights activists, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, Patch reported. But it didn't last, and Box Bar owner Jason McCarther bought the space back from George Farrell, with the intent of re-opening it as Roc Bar Live, Bethesda Now reported. And now, McCarther says that Roc Bar Live won't be opening, to The Box Bar & Grill's Facebook Page. Box Bar opened in November 2011, with "Box Babes" serving burgers, beer and…
The anthology features the work of nearly 50 local writers.
The work of close to 50 DC-area writers is featured in a new anthology—District Lines—published by well-known Chevy Chase, DC, independent bookstore, Politics & Prose. Printed on Politics & Prose’s very own book-printing machine, District Lines contains essays, short fiction, poems, sketches and photography "on quirky and serious subjects ranging from a sighting of Effi Barry on a Metro bus to an August night on the Q Street Bridge to hotcakes at the Florida Avenue Grill to an ode to the Dupont Circle metro escalator," according to a news statement from the bookstore. Read more about the bookstore's book-printing machine—which can print out a book from a PDF file—on Patch. "We really wanted to capture a sense of people and place in DC and …
The ranking was based on several factors, including jobs, programs and businesses.
Maryland recently was ranked the best place to start a business, according to Entrepreneur magazine. Its list of the “10 Best States for Starting a Business” evaluated states based on programs that support entrepreneurs; the number of jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and concentration of high-tech businesses. Two programs in particular set Maryland apart, according to Entrepreneur. One was ACTiVATE, a UMBC-developed initiative that helps women launch technology companies. Around since 2004, the program's alumna added 77 jobs and developed 32 companies for the region by 2010, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. The other offering Entrepreneur singled out was a special networking list called “Maryland …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Restaurant news from around the county and adjacent DC neighborhoods.
Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with 1 Meat, 3 Sides. This week, the closure of a popular seafood restaurant that recently celebrated its 90th year takes center plate. One meat: O'Donnell's Sea Grill—which recently celebrated its 90th year in the Washington, DC, area—announced on its Facebook page that this year will be its last, Gaithersburg Patch reported. "...[We] have made the purposeful decision to officially close our doors and exit on a most high note," the restaurant stated. The restaurant originally opened in DC, at 1207 E St. NW, in 1922. In the second half of the 20th century, a Bethesda location was opened, and the DC locations (by then there were two) were …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The trio of tacos—Korean barbecue, carnitas pork and Havana chicken—will be available for a limited time, starting on Monday, May 20.
California Tortilla's fans have voted, and now there's a new option available on the eatery's menu: "Street Tacos." The new menu item—chosen by CalTort fans in an online NCAA-style "Elito 8" competition last March—will be available for a limited time, starting on May 20, according to a CalTort news statement. "Street Tacos" will be served as a trio of three mini tacos, each mini taco made with a soft corn tortilla shell: The taco trio is $6.49. A combo—the three tacos plus a 22-ounce drink and a choice of chips and queso, salsa or rice and beans—is $8.69.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Ri Ra closes in September because of rent issues, and Max Brenner and Panera Bread are opening soon in Bethesda.
Irish pub Ri Ra will close in September because of rent issues, Bethesda Magazine reported. The rent is too high for the restaurant to continue operating in its Bethesda location, and the upcoming opening of a Ri Ra pub in Georgetown is a coincidence, manager Paul Turner told Patch. Ri Ra currently has 12 locations across the country—from Vermont to Kentucky, according to its website. *** The anticipated opening of Max Brenner in Bethesda is getting closer. The restaurant will have its soft opening on June 13, a restaurant spokesperson told Patch. Unlike the chocolate chain's locations in New York City, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Boston, Bethesda Row's new Max Brenner won't be a full-service restaurant but a sweets-only shop, Bethesda …
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