Restaurants Coming Soon to Rockville (March 2024)

Coming Soon: Kusshi
Kusshi Sushi is be taking over the space that was previously home to popular sushi restaurant Sushi Damo at 36G Maryland Ave in Rockville Town Square for over 15 years. Sushi Damo, one of the first tenants of Rockville Town Square, closed permanently on October 1st.Kusshi Sushi, which has additional MoCo locations in Pike & Rose and Downtown Silver Spring (along with an Arlington Pentagon Row and Tysons Pike 7 Plaza in Northern VA), will be renovating the restaurant and has already submitted drawings to the landlord for approval. They hope to begin construction in early 2024 and open in the spring of 2024. Kusshi is working on keeping the Sushi Damo sushi chef at the restaurant and has also made offers for Sushi Damo servers to join the new restaurant once it opens.

Coming Soon: Luna Hall
Luna Hall has signed on to move into one of the vacant spaces in the Pike Center (the shopping center that’s the longtime home of TGI Friday’s and the recently opened Golfdom), according to Kimco. The location is listed as taking is the former CiCi’s Pizza spot. The food hall recently opened its first location in DC’s Chinatown (625 H St NW). Offerings at the Chinatown location include Kung Fu Tea, TKK Fried Chicken, Dumpling District, Pollo Aria, and Luna Bar. There is no word on possible stalls at the Rockville location and Luna has told us things are in the works and that they’ll provide us with updates once they are available. The featured photo shows the Chinatown location.

Coming Soon: Okaeri Japanese Cafe
Okaeri Japanese Cafe, which means “Welcome Home” in Japanese, is coming soon to the Shops at Congressional Village in Rockville.Okaeri will be taking the space that was previously home to Eerkins Uygher Cuisine at 1701 Rockville Pike # B1. Eerkins closed following a kitchen fire in May 2022 and reopened in a different Rockville location in March 2023.

Okaeri Japanese Cafe has an existing location in Centreville. The cafe offers traditional Japanese bites and desserts, from fruit sandwiches to Onigiri to Dorayaki (Japanese sweet-filled pancakes) and more. An opening date is not available, but signage is up in the windows that states the restaurant is “opening soon.”

Coming Soon: Raku AYCE Sushi & Seafood Buffet
Initially, Umi Seafood & Sushi buffet put signage up announcing they’ll be “coming soon” to the space previously occupied by Miller’s Ale House. The windows were papered, but there didn’t appear to be any additional movement. Now, a different restaurant has posted coming soon signage at 1471 Rockville Pike in Rockville- Raku AYCE Sushi and Japanese Buffet.

Raku, which is not related to the Raku that has two Montgomery County locations in Bethesda, has existing restaurant in New York and New Jersey that opened in 2022. “In 2022, our founder established the Raku AYCE Sushi & Seafood Buffet brand. From an initial small, dedicated team expanding to a catering company with over 100 employees, our brand has rapidly grown. Since the beginning of 2023, we serve an average of 300 diners per day. Raku AYCE Sushi has gained the reputation as the most popular Japanese restaurant in New York all due to the efforts of our founder, hard working staff, and supportive community and diners.” An opening timeframe is not yet available.

Coming Soon: Torchy Tacos 
Torchy’s Tacos is also coming to 12266 Rockville Pike in Federal Plaza, taking over the other part of the space that was recently home to Chuy’s. Torchy’s Tacos, featuring “the most unique tacos, coveted queso and refreshing margaritas in the game, and the rotating Taco of the Month,” will open its first location in the DMV in 2024. The 3,961 square-foot restaurant will be located at 12266 Rockville Pike. With more than 115 locations across 14 states, Torchy’s Tacos serves tacos, sides, and drinks from scratch, made-to-order.

Coming Soon: Teso Life
Teso Life is coming to 1701 Rockville Pike in The Shops at Congressional Village shopping center. Teso Life is a retail store that collaborates with a variety of well-known Japanese suppliers and has a limited amount of products from China and Korea as well. The company was established in 2017 in Flushing, NY and is based in Queens.

“Teso Life retail store is a great place to shop for high quality daily used products with decent prices, or stick around and enjoy the town! Along with the amazing make-up products, small housewares, kitchen supplier, snacks and more, we look forward to serving the best products in town!” In addition to purchasing in-store, you can order through their website where customers can place both pick-up or delivery orders. An opening date it not yet available for the store.

Coming Soon: Tequila Modern Mexican
Tequila Modern Mexican is coming to 11 N Washington Street in Rockville Town Center, the former location of Trapezaria. Tequila Modern Restaurant has additional location in Harrisonburg, VA and upcoming locations in Kansas and North Carolina. While an opening date has not been announced, the restaurant tells us its “almost ready.”

Coming Soon: Uzu Revolving Sushi
Signage is up in the window for Uzu Revolving Sushi at The Shops at Congressional Village on Rockville Pike. This will be the second revolving sushi restaurant that’s making its way to Rockville, as we previously reported Kura revolving sushi will be headed to nearby Federal Plaza. There is currently not much information for Uzu, but revolving sushi is usually placed on some type of conveyor belt that serves sushi by rotating it through the restaurant, allowing customers to make their selection as the sushi moves past every table. An opening date is not yet available.

Coming in 2025: Weagmans
Wegmans is coming to Twinbrook Quarter, in the area of Halpine Rd and Rockville Pike. According to signage put up at the construction site this summer, Wegmans is now expected to open in 2025. Previously, a more general “Late 2024 or 2025” was the expected opening date of the grocery store. In addition to the grocery store, the upcoming neighborhood has approval for 480,000 SF of retail (which includes the 80,000 SF Wegmans and an additional 25,000 SF of additional retail/restaurants in the first phase. Twinbrook Quarter will also consist of 450 apartment homes (The Milton) and 248,000 SF of trophy office above. It will also include over 1,500 parking spaces with electric vehicle charging stations.