The cafe is owned and operated by Tabitha D. Furbush-Clark, a 1989 B-CC graduate. Tabitha opened the first location in Laurel and wanted to come back home with the arrival of the two newest locations.

They offer coffee, tea, smoothies, breakfast sandwiches, bagels, wraps, and a lot more.


During their soft opening week, they’ll run a special that will give you 25% off OR Buy 2 poke bowls, get 1 free until this Thursday, 6/6.

Poke Dojo features Poke crafted from the freshest ingredients, all served using the best cuts in Poke Dojo’s traditional recipes.


The Gomes family stressed that this family-run business allows everyone to get to know each other. They feel knowing people by face becomes a key to providing great customer service and always love to help with difficult beer and wine related decisions.

They’ve added some new food to the deli side of things and some of the favorites include, the meatball and pepperoni, steak and cheese, chicken bacon ranch, and BMT sandwiches as well as their new flat bread pizzas.


The local artisanal ice cream scoop shop is going to be located in the space next to Starbucks on Boardwalk Place as a summer pop-up (updated on 6/8 to reflect the pop-up status of the store).

For those unfamiliar with Moorenko’s, they earned The MoCoShow’s #1 ice cream spot in MoCo award when we released our list back in 2017.


Last night we had Gaithersburg City Councilmember Neil Harris on episode 47 of The MoCoShow and we discussed Royal Farms coming to an agreement to open their first MoCo location in Gaithersburg. Podcast available below (Royal Farms news discusses at approximately 33:20).

Neil told us that when the developer bought the property across from Gaithersburg High School where the Wawa is going, they initially considered 7-Eleven. The Gaithersburg City Council asked if it was possible to bring something new to the area “like a Wawa or Royal Farms.”


We sat with Chapala owner and general manager, John Angel, who spoke with us about what he feels makes Chapala a must-try in the area.

He told us it starts with the food. All of Chapala’s food is made fresh daily with carefully selected ingredients and prepared without any preservatives. Though the family owned restaurant has been around since 1996, the recipes they use have been passed down from generation to generation. We enjoyed the food, but also loved having a mariachi duo play a few songs for us tableside (a clip of that is available on our instagram.


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