After years of anticipation, the Olney Ale House will officially reopen its doors on Tuesday, October 28th. The beloved restaurant, located at 2000 Olney Sandy Spring Road (at the corner of Route 108 and Doctor Bird Road), has been closed since a kitchen fire in 2019. A first look video is available below.
Back in March 2023, the historic 100-year-old building was sold to Two Sibs LLC, led by Selim Kantar, for $1.45 million. Nearly 2.5 years later, the restaurant has been fully rebuilt and is ready to welcome the community once again. Kantar shared with us that guests can expect a familiar experience with some fresh additions. “The menu will be very similar. Some new items, gonna bring back some of the old stuff. General fare will be the same stuff. Staples like the chili, the beef stew, the burgers,” he said.
For Kantar, reopening is about more than food. “I’m most excited to get it back open and give it back to the community,” he explained. “A dozen people every day would come by and ask when we’d reopen. It wasn’t just a restaurant, it was much more of the community.” The building itself has undergone a complete transformation. “Two and a half years, fully rebuilt restaurant. Nothing is old, except for the shape of the structure. And even the framing has been redone and ‘beefed up,’” Kantar noted.
The Ale House will be open for lunch and dinner service, closed on Mondays, with brunch to be added down the road. Hiring events are taking place in the coming weeks with on-the-spot interviews to build a full staff ahead of the grand reopening. Additional information will be made available on hiring for all positions next week.
The return of the Olney Ale House marks a major comeback for a community staple that has been sorely missed since the fire more than five years ago.
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