The area’s latest crop of Indian restaurants must have all received the same dress-for-success memo. A scan of the horizon finds starburst lighting and acres of plush fabric at the aptly named Bombay Velvet in Reston and mother-of-pearl inlays and Hermès dishware at the even posher Punjab Grill in downtown Washington. Now along comes Commonwealth Indian, raising the design […]
Fine-dining Indian restaurants have been popping up across the DC area, from Punjab Grill’s glittering palace of mirrors in Penn Quarter to Bombay Velvet’s lobster malai curry in Reston. Missing from the mix? An upscale Indian dining room further down the Red Line in Montgomery County. Enter Commonwealth Indian, now open in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose complex. The […]
I was a kid when Chi Chi’s opened its first restaurant in 1975 in my hometown of Minneapolis. They billed themselves as the “Home of the Chimichanga” and served fried ice cream for dessert. I’d never heard of, let alone eaten, such exotica. It clearly had to be the most authentic Mexican food ever. Chi […]
Fast-casual Sweetgreen opened at Pike & Rose on Monday, bringing its made-from-scratch salads and grain bowls to the North Bethesda neighborhood center. The restaurant at 11580 Old Georgetown Road is the 24th location in the Washington region and the third in Montgomery County, joining others in Bethesda and Silver Spring. The Bethesda location at 4831 […]
Read below for Never Turn Down A Cupcake’s story on Pike and Rose: Pike Central Farm Market + Blueberry Peach Crumble Pie Going to the Pike Central Farm Market on Saturday mornings has become a nice little weekly routine for me whenever I am home – it’s so nice having a great market that I can […]
Sasha Felikson, an alum of Asian-inspired eatery Doi Moi, is now executive chef of the French-Mediterranean restaurant the founders of fast-casual chain Cava are opening later this summer in Bethesda, Maryland. Bethesda Magazine reported on Felikson’s latest career change; the 2017 Rammy Award finalist for rising star chef of the year confirmed the news on his Facebook page. Breaking with the build-your-own bowls and […]
Good Morning Washington visited The Farm at Pike and Rose, which is the largest rooftop farm in the mid-Atlantic region, aimed at revolutionizing urban farming to make the most of available real estate. Click here to view original article and the video.
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