The Pike Center restaurant was the all-you-can-eat chain’s last remaining location in Montgomery County after the Gaithersburg location closed a few years back. There are still nearby locations in Frederick and Hagerstown (Hagerstown is currently listed as temporarily closed).
Pike Center in Rockville has recently lost Pier 1 Imports and Bagel City.
MoCo businesses receive approximately $2.5 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds
17,323 MoCo businesses received loans from the Small Business Association’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Congress passed the PPP in early April to boost small business damaged by the pandemic.
Don Pollo Chicken opening soon in Downtown Silver Spring.
The local chain will open their Ellsworth Ave. restaurant in about three weeks. Don Pollo currently has five MoCo locations: Glenmont, Briggs Chaney, Rockville, Bethesda, and Germantown.
The Montgomery County Government recently announced that they have made visits to 1,900 MoCo businesses to ensure that safety procedures are being followed. Two hookah lounges, a bar, and a restaurant have been closed for not properly following opening guidelines.
Per the county’s instructions, residents who have concerns about a business not following COVID-19 restrictions should email [email protected] or call 311.
Salt & Vine, which took ownership of Ricciutis Kitchen back in February, announced on social media earlier this week that they will debut a new pizza truck.
According to Salt & Vine owner Thomas Zippelli, the truck will be parked out front of the restaurant until renovations are finished.
Signage for Crumbl Cookies was added recently to a storefront in Rockville’s Federal Plaza. Crumbl Cookies is a nationwide bakery franchise that offers different freshly baked cookies each week. They sell chocolate chip and sugar cookies every day, but the rest of their offerings rotate. Their flavors range from experimental (watermelon chilled sugar cookie), to cookie twists on classic desserts (peach cobbler cookie), to more traditional cookies (peanut butter brownie cookie, pictured here).
It does not seem like Crumbl will open anytime soon– the Crumbl website announced their new stores opening in July and the upcoming Rockville location was not included yet.
Back in April, Attman’s Deli announced that they had closed their Cabin John location and were planning to move into a new spot, somewhere nearby. At the time of the announcement, no official location was disclosed.
There have been rumors that they might potentially move into Park Potomac, in the spot previously occupied by Zoe’s kitchen. Today, we heard that there appeared to be people loading furniture and equipment from an Attman’s truck into that space.
D.C. native bagel shop Call Your Mother is coming to Bethesda. They will be operating out of a repurposed trolley parked on Old Georgetown Road near Suburban Hospital.
The trolly boasts the classic bubble gum pink and bright teal that is featured through Call Your Mother locations. They plan to open within a few weeks once all of the permits are approved, and will be parked in this spot for the foreseeable future, but at some point might be available for events and possibly moving to another location. They will be serving bulk bagels and bagel sandwiches, just like their other locations. As of right now, there is no outdoor seating.
The Brookeville Beer Farm has reopened their dining areas, but with some slight coronavirus-related changes.
Prior to June, the restaurant and brewery offered only curbside pickup due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But now that the curve has been flattened, customers are now allowed to dine in person.
El Aguila is opening a second location in the Colesville Center.
The restaurant currently has a location on Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring and offers Salvadoran and Tex-Mex cuisine.
Guapo’s in Rio temporarily takes over some of the recently closed Union Jack’s to offer more patio seating.
Photo courtesy of Andy Green