When you walk into Commonwealth Indian restaurant in the Pike & Rose development for the first time and look around, be prepared to reset your expectation meter to high. Banquettes upholstered in tufted gold lamé and rich silk prints line an entrance waiting area beyond the host stand. A lounge area features a flecked granite […]
Taylor Gourmet’s comeback is officially underway. The temporarily defunct local sandwich chain, which closed 17 D.C. area shops less than a year ago, announced on its website today that it will reopen three locations: one downtown (1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW), one in Dupont Circle (1200 19th Street NW), and one at the Pike & Rose complex in […]
BETHESDA, MD — To find a quality beer garden, you don’t need to buy an expensive plane ticket to Germany. In fact, some of the coolest communal drinking spots are right here in the D.C. metro area. Eater published a list of “16 Beer Gardens With Terrific Brews Around D.C.,” and the ones that made it will […]
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 […]
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