It’s my understanding that everything has not been signed, but it’s very close.
Their current restaurant is located in Rock Creek Village Center in Rockville. Per their website, “It is a great option to share with the family, a place with delicious food. Our extensive menu offers a wide selection of Margaritas ranging from traditional to modern recipes, appealing to all tastes.”
I’m told the plan is to open a location in Gaithersburg and one in Germantown. Corporate told me “We hope to be in Gaithersburg and Germantown one day soon,” but did not confirm the rumor. Management at the Rockville location told me “nothing has been confirmed.”
This comes on the heels of Yoyogi, a very popular sushi restaurant in the Kentlands, announcing the opening of a second location in the development (word is the original location will become carry-out only after the new location opens).
The restaurant will be owned by longtime Raku chef, Ken Ballogdajan, and his sister, Aki Ballogdajan. According to the article, the siblings grew up on their parents sushi restaurant Kioko, which had locations in Cleveland Park and Frederick.
It’s the type of move you don’t really see much, but they’ll be opening a second location about a hundred yards from their current location (across the street in a location behind the stone chairs on the lawn, as seen in the video below).
I’m told the original location won’t be closing and that we should expect the second location to open in the “next few months.”
Here’s more info from the official press release:
About Commonwealth Indian:
Commonwealth Indian, opening in the former space of La Madeleine on Old Georgetown Road, will feature Indian specialties, including Khansama ke Tari Wala Murgh—a curry chicken and Angrezi–butter chicken It will have a full bar with Indian beers and wines, and specialty Indian cocktails. A champagne brunch will be served on both Saturday and Sunday.“We selected Pike & Rose for Commonwealth because the neighborhood that has a high volume of weekday and weekend foot traffic and is filled with families and professionals,” shared the Ownership team.
The Corned Beef King will get his second gas station location when he opens up shop at the Liberty gas station in Rockville (Rockville Pike and Twinbrook Parkway). CBK already […]
The Rockville location will be their first on the east coast and will be joining Cava and Honeygrow at Montrose Crossing. These very strong fast casual restaurants will quickly help us forget about Timpano Italian Chophouse, the restaurant that was demolished to make way for the current structure that is home to the fast-casual eateries.
Slapfish is planning on opening over a dozen Mid-Atlantic locations in the coming years. The Montrose Crossing location in Rockville will open in the late spring/early summer.
Included in the gift basket will be 2 passes to the “Dogfish in Dublin” brunch on Sunday, March 18th ($40 each), Dogfish Head and MoCoShow gear, drinking glasses and a growler, as well as a $25 Dogfish Head gift card! The winner will be chosen on Thursday, March 15th at 7pm at Dogfish Head Alehouse in Gaithersburg!
Contest rules are as follows (you can enter three times in three different ways!):
The renovation of the theater to include reclining seats, upgrades concession offerings, etc. will start soon. It appears as though AMC is upping their game ahead of the Cinepolis Luxury theater that is supposed to arrive just a couple miles down the street in the Kentlands later this year (November 2018). AMC will remain open during renovations.
Earlier this week we broke the news that Dave & Buster’s officially executed the lease with Rio. They are still in the process of acquiring all of the proper permits, but according to the e-mail it is expected to open sometime in 2019.
Cava opened their 46th fast casual restaurant on Rockville Pike today. Their newest location is located next to Honeygrow on Rockville Pike in the new development that used to be […]
We’re working with Growlers to let everyone know about all of the great things that are happening since GM Jon Thompson took over at the start of 2018.
We ordered the bacon, egg, and biscuit breakfast. The buttermilk pancakes (3) with eggs and bacon, chorizo burger (my groups favorite), and the fried green tomato Benedict. Also pictured are the Bloody Mary and the Prosecco Punch.