Last April we let you know that local restaurant group Moby Dick House of Kabob signed on to open a new restaurant in Potomac’s Cabin John Village. The new location will be adjacent to Colony Grill on the back side of the shopping center and signage is now up with plenty of interior construction progress as the restaurant prepares to open in March (exact date not yet available).
The existing Potomac location is 4.5 miles away in the Potomac Promenade shopping center off of Falls Rd. The opening of the Cabin John Village location will not impact the current Potomac location. A photo of the interior as it looked on February 27th is available below.
Founder Mike Daryoush emigrated to the United States from Iran in 1975. He opened a small sandwich shop in 1987 in Bethesda, Maryland, serving a few Middle Eastern dishes. He changed to a Persian menu and added a clay oven in 1989. The name references one of the biggest kabob joints in Tehran, which was right near the American Embassy during the Shah’s time. It was called Moby Dick, apparently because the owner really liked the book. Daryoush passed away on May 9, 2019, only a week after the chain’s 30th anniversary.
