Bethesda's Brown Bag To Take Over Glen Echo Park Cafe
New food vendor to debut after push to transfer authority for food service at Glen Echo Park from NPS to the county.
Visitors to Glen Echo Park will soon have a new dining option after a push to shift control for food vending there from the National Park Service to Montgomery County. The Brown Bag, which opened in Bethesda in 2002 and has quickly expanded throughout the Washington, D.C. region as demand grew for its fast-casual, healthy and gourmet food options, will begin operating the park’s Ballroom Café April 2. The previous concessions operator at Glen Echo contracted with the park service to run food operations at all National Park Service sites in the national capital area, according to Katey Boerner, Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture executive director. “We were just a small thing in this huge contract,” Boerner said. “We didn’t …
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