Last week we reported that Crisfield Seafood will be closing after nearly 80 years at 8012 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring The restaurant has been operating in Silver Spring since 1945 and will close permanently on Sunday, December 22nd. A visit today, as well as several reader reports, showed lines out the door and down the block for the restaurant. “It has been this way for the last five days or so” a customer told us after deciding he would wait today to get his final fix.

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J&J Mex-Taqueria opened in Mount Rainer (DC) almost a decade ago. The restaurant has since opened a second DC location on Georgia Avenue in the Brightwood neighborhood and earlier this year made the move into Maryland at Le Fantome food hall in Riverdale Park (Prince George’s County). Now, the restaurant has opened a second Maryland location in Silver Spring’s Solaire Social (Montgomery County).

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As 2024 winds down, we wanted to share with you some of the most-read articles of 2024. This article was originally published on April 29th, 2024, when five Maryland restaurants were included in the New York Times’ “25 Best Restaurants in Washington D.C. Right Now” list published earlier this year. Four of the five Maryland restaurants included can be found in Montgomery County (photos of the Montgomery County restaurants below by @MrMoCo).

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