Hook & Reel will have its beer, wine, and liquor license hearing on Thursday, October 7th at 9:30am.

It has been nearly two years, December of 2019, since we let you know that the Cajun seafood restaurant and bar would be coming to MoCo with two new locations (Gaithersburg and Wheaton).

The Gaithersburg location a  little over a year ago,  but it has taken the Wheaton location quite a bit longer to get everything together.

The Wheaton location is at 11160 Veirs Mill Road, Wheaton, MD 20902, which is in Wheaton Mall. It will be taking over two vacant storefronts between Party City and the old Bar Louie.

We stopped by earlier this past summer and someone at the site that the restaurant was still “a couple months away.” The ABS hearing is a good sign that the opening date is getting closer.

The menu consists of clams, crawfish, black/New Zealand mussels, shrimp, snow crab legs, Dungeness crab, lobster, King crab legs, blue crabs, scallops, calamari, and more.

The first Hook & Reel Restaurant was opened in Lanham, Maryland in 2013. The restaurant chain has seen a massive expansion with over 20 current locations and 30 new locations on the way across the country.