Signage has been up for a couple months now at the upcoming Chopt location in the Kentlands neighborhood of Gaithersburg.
The new restaurant is located next to MOD pizza on Commerce Square and is now scheduled to open in January after Covid delays and permitting issues pushed the opening date back a few times. No exact date has been set yet.
MoCo natives Stefon and Trevon Diggs have dominated the NFL this year. The brothers, who grew up in Gaithersburg, were both recently selected as Pro Bowlers for this NFL season.
Stefon grew up in Gaithersburg and attended Good Counsel High School in Olney, where he played football and ran track. He recorded 810 yards receiving with 23 touchdowns as a junior in 2010, and was runner-up for the Gatorade Maryland Player of the Year. As a senior, he recorded 770 yards receiving and 8 touchdowns, and racked up 277 rushing yards and three more touchdowns on the ground. He was named to the All-Metro team by The Washington Post both seasons.
Below you’ll find a list of restaurants that are expected to be open on Christmas Day, 2021. We suggest making a reservation or calling the business before you arrive, as many restaurants will be operating with abbreviated hours.
Did we miss a restaurant? Let us know in the comments so we can add it to the list!
Per MCPD:
For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 23, 2021
Shady Grove Fertility has been at the start of over 100,000 lives. Now, Shady Grove Fertility would like to continue to make a positive impact on our community by launching the Shady Grove Fertility Scholarship Fund.
The Shady Grove Fertility Scholarship Fund is designed for children born through services at SGF. In 2022, SGF will provide two $5,000 grants.
– Two-dose primary regimen of NVX-CoV2373 demonstrated cross-reactive immune responses against Omicron (B.1.1.529) and other variants
– Third dose produced increased immune responses comparable to or exceeding levels associated with protection in Phase 3 clinical trials, with a 9.3-fold IgG rise and a 19.9-fold ACE2 inhibition increase after booster dose
Last January we let you know that Java Nation would be moving in to 121 Market Strert in the Kentlands neighborhood of Gaithersburg, which was formerly a Starbucks. Starbucks opened a new Kentlands location at 160 Kentlands Blvd at the beginning of this year that features a drive-thru.
We have been told there were material and equipment delays by manufacturers, initially pushing the opening timeframe from August to October and then November.
Galito’s Flame-Grilled Chicken will be taking over the spot that was formerly home to Nirvana Reflexology Spa at 15918 Shady Grove Road in the Shady Grove Center (shopping center that is home to The Melting Pot).
The restaurant offers chicken with “bold African flavors” and has been compared to international fast-casual restaurant Nando’s Peri Peri.
Montgomery County police tweeted at 12:30pm Tuesday afternoon that they are currently responding to a bank robbery in the 18000 block of Flower Hill Way (Flower Hill Shopping Center) in Gaithersburg.https://mocoshow.com/blog/mcpd-responding-to-bank-robbery-in-gaithersburg
Yesterday, the European Union authorized the use of Novavax Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine for adults. This makes Gaithersburg-based Novavax’s two-dose vaccine the fifth of its kind to be approved in the European Union.
More information below from the Novavax press release:
Construction at the upcoming Shake Shack (150 Kentlands Square Place) in the Kentlands neighborhood has not begun just yet, but the burger chain will have its Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) hearing, which would give them a license to sell beer and wine on the premises, at 9:30am on January 6th.
Included in the site plan were renderings (shown below) of what Shake Shack will look like when it’s built as a standalone restaurant between the new Starbucks and the existing Chipotle across the parking lot from Lowe’s. Plans were approved this past summer.