D1 Seafood Buffet & Bar (19961 Century Boulevard) is now open in Germantown. The restaurant has taken over the space previously home to Sushi Legend Cajun Seafood and Bar, and before that, The Greene Turtle. They are currently running a soft opening special that can be seen below.
Eat A Lao, a new restaurant serving Laotian, Vietnamese, and Thai cuisine, is now open at 1327 Rockville Pike, Units I, J, and K. It has taken over the space that was recently home to Sadaf Halal Restaurant, which closed at the start of 2024.
Pusser’s Caribbean Grille and Oasis Marina’s management has announced that after 30 years on the waterfront in Annapolis, Pusser’s will be relocating to the Lighthouse Point Marina in Baltimore’s Canton Neighborhood and plans to open in the Spring of 2025.
After closing its doors in January 2020 following seven years in downtown Frederick, Ayse Meze Lounge is poised to return to the culinary scene—this time about 25 miles south as AYSE. Nezih Pistar, the driving force behind the Mediterranean restaurant named for his mother, has applied for a liquor license on behalf of AYSE for the new location at 700 King Farm Rd. in Rockville’s King Farm neighborhood.
After a panel participated in blind taste tests, the Washington Post created a list of the nine best bagels in (and around) D.C. with four of the options from Maryland and all available right here in Montgomery County.
Koi Asian Cuisine, located at 12046 Cherry Hill Rd. in Silver Spring (Calverton), has rebranded to Sushi Freedom.
This past summer we let you know that Smoothie King signed on to open a new location at 20630 Seneca Meadows Parkway at the Shops at Seneca Meadows development (where Wegmans is located) in Germantown. A permit valued at $200,000 has been now issued for construction to begin on the interior.
LionRock Cafe, a Hong Kong style cafe located at 13 Dawson Ave. in Rockville, announced via social media that it will be closing its doors soon (as soon as the restaurant runs out of food and drink).
Robert Wiedmaier’s Mussel Bar & Grille closed its 7262 Woodmont Ave Bethesda location in April 2022, but we let you know the group planned to bring the restaurant back to a new location in Bethesda in 2024. the restaurant will be reopening at 4903 Cordell Avenue on October, 16th according to a social media post by the restaurant.
The Washington Post’s Tom Sietsema has been the newspaper’s food critic for nearly 25 years. Today he he released his list of “The 40 Best Restaurants in and Around D.C.“. 28 of the restaurants included in his list are in D.C., eight of them are in Virginia, and four of them are in Maryland (all in Montgomery County). We look at the food Maryland restaurants below:
Kapow Buddy ‘Thai Street Bowls’ will be soft launching at 7101 Democracy Blvd in Montgomery Mall (Entrance 4) with a 50% off special that will last from Tuesday, October 15th until Saturday, October 19th.