Eater DC Details Wildwood Kitchen Design Elements

Green color tones, a casual atmosphere, and lots of wine are some of the elements behind Robert Wiedmaier's newest eatery.

Wildwood Kitchen marked its soft opening in the Wildwood Shopping Center last week, and Eater DC sat with architects Peter Hapstak and Natalie Park to talk design. The eatery is the latest by noted chef Robert Wiedmaier, who is also behind Bethesda's Mussel Bar and the popular Marcel's, Brabo and Brasserie Beck. Designers chose green as the dominant accent color for the cozy restaurant, which is small at 2,000 square feet and 55 seats. The eatery features lots of wine, according to the interview -- a departure for Wiedmaier, who has showcased beer at his other restaurants -- and a casual atmosphere, with comfortable seating and servers wearing jeans and plaid shirts. 'I didn't want it to be a special occasion restaurant; we have Marcel's …

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Chop't Salad Opens With Free Food Today in Bethesda

The restaurant will give out free food in exchange for $2 Manna Food Center donations.

Chop't Salad, an anticipated addition to the Bethesda food scene, opens today in the Wildwood Shopping Center offering free food in exchange for donations to a popular local charity. For four hours today Chop't will hand out free salads and sandwiches for $2 donations to the Montgomery County Manna Food Center, according to its Facebook page. Try our salads and sandwiches FOR FREE with a $2 donation to the Manna Food Center, the main food bank in Montgomery County. Where: Chop't Creative Salad Company Wildwood Shopping Center 10307 Old Georgetown Road, Suite3 Bethesda, MD 20852 When: Wednesday, November 14th 11am - 2pm 5:30pm - 7:30pm or until the food runs out The chain has locations in New York and Washington, DC, according to its …

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Katie Griffith

1:07 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

You're right, Becky. Apologies if there was a mix up with our newsletters.   more ›

Wildwood Kitchen Set for Nov. 17 Opening

Small menu will feature eight entrees and eight appetizers, Washingtonian reports.

Wildwood Kitchen Set for Nov. 17 Opening

Small menu will feature eight entrees and eight appetizers, Washingtonian reports.

Famed chef Robert Wiedmaier's much-anticipated new restaurant, Wildwood Kitchen, is set for a Nov. 17 opening in Bethesda's Wildwood Shopping Center, Washingtonian reports. The menu will be small—featuring eight entrees and an equal number of appetizers, Washingtonian reports. The space will seat 55, along with a bar that will fit about 15. The chef, also behind Marcel’s, Brasserie Beck and Bethesda's Mussel Bar, is going "old-school" for Wildwood Kitchen—no online reservations or televisions, according to the report. Wiedmaier's latest restaurant will feature “south of France Mediterranean cuisine—we’re going very, very healthy on this menu,”  he told Bethesda Magazine's Table Talk blog in February. Read the full story at Washingtonian.

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Chop't Coming To Wildwood Shopping Center

Will the salad chain fare better than the short-lived Mixt Greens?

There will soon be a new, healthy option for folks looking for lunch in the Wildwood Shopping Center. Chop't, the popular salad chain, has leased the space at 10307 Old Georgetown Road in the shopping plaza. The deal was finalized Monday, said Ralph Ours, a leasing agent for Federal Realty, which manages Wildwood. Following the closure of the short-lived Mixt Greens, Wildwood has been without an eatery that specializes in salads. The chain has locations in New York and Washington, DC, according to its website. Customers can choose or customize salads or "salad sandwiches," salads wrapped in flat bread. Options include twists on classic cobb, greek and ceasar salads along with a few more unique offerings, like the "Grilled Asian" and "Palm …

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Ricky W Kracker a.k.a. Diggy Swagga

9:45 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012

What I'd like to understand (and was inexplicably omitted from the article) is why Chop't should have a different outcome from Mixt when they are both, as far the article says, the same type of restaurant. Also bear in mind that, in the same strip, is Balducci's which has a salad bar and eating area. While I can accept that Balducci's salads may not have the sophistication of a specialty …   more ›

Power Outrage, Heroism and More–Within Montgomery's 500 Square Miles

High-voltage anti-Pepco madness, looking for a mystery man in Bethesda and even dogs in Montgomery County turn political. Oh, and a bunch of fifth graders call out The Washington Post. All this stuff really happened in Montgomery County last week.

Montgomery County might be known for its calm reserve but it turns out residents get outraged when they learn that under state law they have to help compensate for losses by one of the most hated companies in America—Pepco. Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner said residents had had enough and held a press conference to call for improvements. Maryland's county executives, including Montgomery's Ike Leggett, blasted Pepco for failing to to provide specific addresses with outages so elderly residents could be helped during the heat wave. State senators Brian Frosh (D-Montgomery) and James Rosapepe (D-Prince George's) suggested Pepco and BGE should have to pay their own fines reaching more than $100 million for their response to…

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Bob Hydorn

9:53 am on Monday, July 16, 2012

I must agree that we are all irate with Pepco and rightfully so. However, I ask everyone to step back one moment and think about the Pepco workers that were working 16-hour shifts and getting our power restored. These people are the works of Pepco, give them a big Thank you. Then criticize the Company and corporate staff all we like.   more ›

Planning Board Recommends Approval of Wildwood Apartment Building

Neighbors oppose the 58-unit residential complex near WIldwood Shopping Center.

The Montgomery County Planning Board is recommending approval of a plan that would put a five-story residential complex adjacent to the Wildwood Shopping Center, but the proposal is meeting a flurry of opposition from the community. The 3.5-acre site, south of the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Rock Spring Drive, houses a bank and the Wildwood Medical Center, a nearly 37,000-square-foot medical office building. Property managers are seeking to amend a previously approved development plan in order to build a five-story, 58-unit apartment building. Wildwood Medical Center LLC must also seek a special zoning exception in order to build the housing complex. The plan calls for 225 parking spaces, 114 of which would be located beneath …

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