Corner Bakery at 1 Grand Corner Ave in Gaithersburg’s Rio will be permanently closing this week. Update: Replacement signs on. Corner Bakery pushes back closing date.
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DIG will be celebrating its first location in Maryland (4733 Elm St, Bethesda, MD 20814) on Friday, February 23rd with free plates from 11am-8pm.
Sarah’s Handmade Ice Cream is now open at 14929 Shady Grove Rd in Rockville’s Fallsgrove Village Center. (more…)
A BizJournals report from earlier this month states that “signs point to an Amazon Fresh reboot” in White Oak. This comes after Amazon Fresh appeared to pull out of a planned 41,000 SF market in White Oak Town Center after it took the place of a planned Trader Joe’s location in 2022. Amazon Fresh also removed signage from a nearly completed Shady Grove Rd. location last year as it paused or cancelled dozens of stores across the country, many of which were also already built.
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Taste opened its first Montgomery County location at 7276 Wisconsin Ave in Bethesda back in March 2021. Now, the bakery has signed on to open a second Montgomery County location just a couple miles away at the Bethesda’s new Westbard Square shopping center, according to BizJournals.
Irene’s Pupusas is now open at 811 Russell Ave in Gaithersburg.
Locally Crafted closed its doors storefront at 201 Boardwalk Place in Gaithersburg’s Rio Lakefront on December 24th, 2023. At the time they announced a new location coming in the spring and now we know they’ll be moving in to 9 Grand Corner Ave.- the space that was recently home to Francesca’s.
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Last year, The Comus Inn (23900 Old Hundred Rd, Dickerson) announced that it had been sold and would be closing on November 26th, with new ownership taking over in December.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Yelp has released its list of “Top 100 Romantic Restaurants for 2024” and one local restaurant has been included- Rockville’s very own Gyuzo BBQ, which is ranked 67th on the nationwide list.
Bar Rescue stars Jon Taffer, a long-time food and beverage industry consultant specializing in nightclubs, bars and pubs. Taffer offers his professional expertise, renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in an effort to save them from closing. (more…)