Federal Realty has announced that Melina, a new full-service, fine casual Greek restaurant by the founders of Cava, Cava Mezze, and Julii, will open on Monday, November 22, 2021 at 905 Rose Avenue in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose neighborhood.
Founded by Cava partners Ted Xenohristos, Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ike Grigoropoulos, the 3,593-square-foot establishment is the team’s second restaurant at Pike & Rose. Named after Dimitri’s daughter, Melina is located on the street level of 909 Rose near the group’s French concept, Julii, which opened in 2018.
For more information, menus and photos, visit Melina’s website here and Instagram here.
Image 1: Beef Tartare with Avgolemono Foam, Cabbage, Wild Fennel and Egg Yolk
Image 2: Roasted Heirloom Carrots with Smoked Manouri Cheese, Spiced Granola and Pickled Raisins
Image 3: Slow Roasted Lamb Neck with House Made Pita
Over the summer, Federal Realty announced that the popular Roaming Rooster will open in Fall 2021 at North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose.
The 1,843-square-foot restaurant will feature its famous buttermilk fried chicken sandwiches, sides, salads and an all week breakfast menu.
Now, signage is up at one of the most anticipated MoCo restaurant openings in the coming year.
Though we haven’t been provided with any updates since the Fall 2021 opening timeframe we were provided in the summer, the restaurant is making progress.
“As a supporter of the DMV’s local businesses, Federal is eager to bring this popular regional favorite to its first location in Maryland and Montgomery County,”said Emily Gagliardi, Director of Leasing at Federal.”Roaming Rooster will be a welcome addition to the dining destinations in thevibrant Pike & Rose neighborhood.”
A minority- and family-owned business founded in 2015, Roaming Rooster began as a food truck that traveled across the Washington, D.C. metro region. Its popularity grew and today there are three food trucks and multiple storefronts.This will be the first Roaming Rooster in Maryland and Montgomery County and its sixth fast-casual restaurant in the region. Locations in Washington, D.C. can be found in the Woodridge, U-Street and the recently opened Tenleytown neighborhoods. Two more locations opening soon are in the Western Market Food Hall and the Skyland Town Center.
The restaurant offers a variety of buttermilk fried chicken sandwiches varying in heat depending on the diner’s preferences – mild, medium or hot. In addition to itsfree-range, grain-fed, antibiotic-free and Halal chicken, Roaming Rooster offers an all week breakfast menu, salads and sides including wings, chicken tenders and hand-cut fries.
“We chose Pike & Rose in Montgomery County because we want to be part of a neighborhood that features premier retailers, restaurants and services,” said Michael Habtemariam, Co-Owner of Roaming Rooster.
A previous version of this article stated a date that we have been told is not correct. The restaurant plans to open soon, and an exact date will be provided when it is available.
The founders of Cava, Cava Mezze, and Julii are bringing their newest concept to Pike & Rose and the restaurant will be open for business soon.
Melina will open in the 909 Rose office building across from REI.
Back in January, we interviewed Chef Dimitri Moshovitis about Melina, a new Greek restaurant opening in Pike & Rose this April or May. Chef D, as he’s affectionately called, is one of the founders along with Ted Xenohristos and Ike Grigoropoulos–the same team responsible for Cava, Cava Mezze, and Julii.
According to Chef D, the inspiration behind Melina is the desire to share traditional Greek recipes and techniques, but with a creative spin. Moshovitis also explained that after years in the restaurant industry, he has seen how Greek cooking has evolved and he wanted a new opportunity to showcase modern Greek cuisine. The time to start a new venture felt right when he met Chef Aris Tsekouras, owner of Microwheat Bakery. Dimitri felt inspired by Aris’ ideas and thought that they could create wonderful things together.
Melina is named after Moshovitis’ daughter, but the restaurant symbolically represents and celebrates all the women in a family– moms, grandmas, sisters, daughters. The name Melina carries another meaning for people who understand Greek– meli means honey, which is the reason why their logo has a bee in the design.
Chef D shared examples of the thought and care that goes into all of the dishes. The team spends a lot of time on R&D taking the Greek flavors that they grew up with and “flipping them on their head”, all the while still maintaining the integrity of the original dish. For example, they took a traditional Bougatsa (dessert with phyllo and custard) and flipped it by flavoring the custard with tonka bean and adding hot greek coffee, chocolate caramel, and cinnamon ice cream to the dish. Moshovitis is also particularly proud of and excited about Melina’s bread program. All bread and pastries will be baked in-house, thanks to Chef Aris’ expertise and experience.
In addition to the food, Moshovitis is excited about the design of the restaurant. It will be soft, feminine, strong, and colorful. The dishes that they’re serving will echo that same femininity, strength, and vibrancy. The kitchen will be open and visible to diners, which will allow patrons to feel the intimacy of being in someone’s home while they’re cooking for you.
The team decided on Pike & Rose because “that neighborhood is awesome.” The team has had a great experience with Julii in that area, and they love how the Pike & Rose community embraces interesting and unique concepts.
Photos below courtesy of @MelinaGreek on Instagram.
Federal Realty announced yesterday that Choice Hotels International, Inc. has signed a long-term lease to occupy 105,000 square feet in 915 Meeting Street, a new 276,000-square-foot trophy office building to be constructed at the award-winning mixed-use development of Pike & Rose in North Bethesda, Maryland.
“Pike & Rose has everything employers and employees are looking for in office space today – convenient location with excellent regional access and world-class amenities both inside and outside of the building,” said Wendy Seher, the company’s president of the east coast region. “We are excited to add a company of the caliber of Choice Hotels to the growing list of leading firms that have chosen a Federal Realty office environment to help them attract quality talent and enhance their brands.”
915 Meeting Street will be a 16-story, state-of-the-art, LEED Gold-targeted building featuring 9,600 square feet of ground floor retail, approximately 25,000-square-foot flexible floor plates and 700 dedicated parking spaces.
The building, designed by Gensler, will incorporate a vibrant architectural design that includes numerous amenities, such as a rooftop conference center with collaborative common areas, WiredScore-targeted connectivity, a fitness center, and resource-efficient sustainable and wellness features.
Located in the rapidly emerging submarket of North Bethesda, 915 Meeting Street will sit within the transit-oriented, LEED Gold-certified neighborhood of Pike & Rose and its more than 400,000 square feet of thoughtfully curated retail, services, dining, and entertainment offerings.
The new construction comes following the success of Pike & Rose’s 300,000 square feet of existing office product, which includes tenants such as Bank of America, JLL, Industrious, OneDigital and Federal Realty’s corporate headquarters.
915 Meeting Street is expected to break ground later this year. The building is 40% pre-leased to Choice Hotels, who plans to relocate approximately 400 corporate employees from its current headquarters beginning in December of 2023. Bernie McCarthy, executive managing director, and Danny Sheridan, managing director at JLL represented Federal Realty, and Steve London, vice chairman at Savills represented Choice Hotels.
“It’s been gratifying to see Pike & Rose become an established neighborhood and the real estate of choice for multiple uses,” said Don Wood, chief executive officer for Federal Realty. “The continued demand for office at our mixed-use developments, coming from world-class companies like Splunk and NetApp at Santana, Partners Healthcare and PUMA at Assembly, and now Choice at Pike & Rose, validates our track record of delivering a high-quality product that capitalizes on the highly amenitized environments we have created.”
Updated on 10/22 to reflect locations of both spas
Privai, the luxury skin and body care line, announced the expansion of its brand earlier this week with the debut of Privai | Spa + Salon.Per the press release, they will open a Pike & Rose location followed by a Gaithersburg location here in MoCo.
Per the Pike & Rose Instagram account, Privai is expected to open by the end of the year. The Gaithersburg location (Kentlands) is expected to open early next year. Both will move into the previous locations of Mynd Spa, per the Privai website. Mynd Spa closed all locations permanently in March of 2020. Full press release below:
Focused on personalized wellness for the whole being, each destination will deliver signature experiences, unsurpassed services, rejuvenating treatments, and results-driven products. Located throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan region, the first two locations to open this year will be Westpost (formerly Pentagon Row) and North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose followed by Fairfax Corner, Reston, Gaithersburg and Tyson’s Corner early next year.
Founded upon the belief that everyone deserves “spa in a bottle” skincare products that provide accessible luxury and rejuvenation, Christina Stratton and Ilana Alberico developed the Privai line following the success of their spa and wellness management company, Innovative Spa Management (ISM SPA).
This next evolution of the Privai brand brings their passion about self-care and personalized wellness to life in order to better serve individuals’ body, mind, and sense of self.
“We are thrilled to evolve Privai into a personalized lifestyle brand because we are committed to delivering a world-class experience,” said Ms. Stratton, co-founder and CEO of Privai. “We want to offer a place that truly realizes individual needs: from spa and body treatments to salon and beauty services. We understand that no two guests are alike, and it is this belief that inspires us to curate unique experiences, one’s antidote for respite and recharging.”The new Privai | Spa + Salon locations will be managed by ISM SPA and include a partnership with the co-founders’ newest technology innovation, Spa Space, an app which pairs expert licensed providers and stylists to meet customer’s needs. In addition, Privai | Spa + Salon locations will open under the guidance of Anne Melby, who has joined ISM SPA as Senior Vice President and will be responsible for overseeing operations for ISM SPA and all Privai | Spa + Salon locations. A highly respected and accomplished industry veteran with over 20 years within the hospitality and wellness sectors, Ms. Melby has held multiple positions with Red Door Spa Holdings, in addition to managing her entrepreneurial venture, Fractional COO Hospitality Spa & Wellness.For more information, please visit www.privai.com.
Little Miner Taco opened a MoCo location at 967 Rose Avenue inside The Block at Pike & Rose a couple months into the pandemic (July 2020).
In a social media post this morning, they announced that “teachers eat free,” by offering gift cards to all teachers who send an email to [email protected] with their name, email/phone number, school, and credentials.
We spoke with a representative from Little Miner who told us that each teacher would be given a $15 gift card (one per teacher).
Little Miner is well known for their Birria De Res Quesadillas and tacos which have braised beef and cheese along with a signature beef consome dipping sauce. The Pike & Rose location has also offered Carne Asada fries, Street corn, Birria Ramen, Kimchi fried rice, Bulgogi tacos, Lobster quesadilla, Kimchi avocado quesadilla, Bulgogi mushroom tacos, and more.
Federal Realty announced today that two new tenants, ESAB and Emagine IT, have committed to 909 Rose, located in the award-winning Pike & Rose neighborhood in North Bethesda.
The new tenants will join OneDigital, United Solutions, Industrious and Federal Realty. With the addition of these two tenants, the building is nearly 80 percent leased.
Per Federal Realty:
ESAB, a world leader in the production of fabrication technology, will relocate its world headquarters from Annapolis Junction, Md. to 909 Rose before the end of the year. ESAB is taking all 20,887 square feet on the eighth floor, which will be the primary home of its global support functions and senior management team. The global company has more than 9,000 employees in offices and manufacturing facilities across five continents.
“ESAB is excited to announce its new world headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland,” said Michele Campion, Vice President, Human Resources. “As a team oriented business and leader in our industry driven by continuous improvement, the dynamic Pike & Rose neighborhood is the ideal location, with a wide array of amenities, for our existing team members and clients, as well as a place we can proudly welcome new business partners and attract future talent.”
Emagine IT, an enterprise IT and cybersecurity services and consulting company, committed to 9,787 square feet on the ninth floor. Emagine IT will relocate from Fairfax, Va.
The building also has extremely efficient, customizable spec suites ranging from 1,700 to 7,270 square feet available with a choice of design finishes that tenants can tailor to their own specifications. The suites are located on the sixth floor, offer panoramic views and are move-in ready.
“With fantastic momentum coming out of the summer months, including the additions of ESAB and Emagine IT, we anticipate the building to be fully leased this winter,” said Jay Brinson, Vice President Development at Federal. “We now set our sights on new office opportunities that exist within the Pike & Rose neighborhood, which will also include additional ground floor retail to compliment an already dynamic neighborhood.”
The vibrant Pike & Rose neighborhood features a wide range of amenities including:
- Owner-Developer controlled 24-acre neighborhood with increased cleaning and sanitation protocols compared to downtown environments.
- Wi-Fi enabled neighborhood, including Rose Park, outdoor cafés and patios.
- U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND) as a sustainable, well-connected neighborhood.
- The Farm at Pike & Rose, is the largest soil-based farm in the mid-Atlantic region at 17,000 square feet, producing fruits and vegetables sold directly to tenants and residents through a Farm Membership Program.
- More than 20 restaurants, including fine dining and fast casual, in addition to shops, a fitness center, a dog bar, and a weekly Farmer’s Market.
Featured photo courtesy of Google Maps
As Industrious prepares to move into its newest location in Pike & Rose, a notice has been sent out regarding the closure of 2 lanes on Rockville Pike for a brief stretch in the Pike & Rose area.
During the time frame of October 5, 2021 through October 7, 2021 from 9:00AM to 4:00PM, Jack Stone Signs will be conducting a traffic lane closure of 2 lanes for two consecutive days on MDOT SHA Route 355 (Rockville Pike) from Montrose Pkwy to Rose Ave heading South.
All southbound traveling motorists will be directed to two left lanes through Rose Ave. Northbound traffic will be unaffected by this work.
Industrious, the company moving into the building, is a workplace provider and announced its plans to open a distinctive new flexible office location in North Bethesda back in January.
Located at 909 Rose Avenue and spanning a total of 42,768 square feet, the new shared workplace will occupy the fourth and fifth floors of a LEED Gold-certified building in Pike & Rose.
Featured photo courtesy of Google Maps
South Block, a smoothie and juice bar best known for their acai bowls, shared that they are opening a new location in Pike & Rose. Per their Instagram announcement, they are hoping to open by summer 2022. They will be taking over the space currently occupied by the Residences At Pike & Rose leasing office, right next to the newly opened Call Your Mother Deli. (The leasing office will move to the spot formerly occupied by Nava Health.)
Along with their acai bowls, South Block offers other fruit and vegetable-based bowls, a range of smoothies, and cold pressed juices. They currently have eleven locations throughout DC and Virginia– their Pike & Rose spot will be their first location in Maryland. In addition to their brick and mortar locations, South Block has an online storefront where they sell pre-blended smoothie bowl kits that they deliver throughout the continental United States.
South Block places an emphasis on giving back and doing good– they donate a portion of all juice sales to Fruitful Planet, an organization created by South Block’s founder that brings fruits and vegetables to underserved communities. Per their website, they also use organic, fair trade acai in order to help fight deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
You can learn more about South Block by checking out their website.
Featured photo courtesy of South Block’s Instagram.
By: Michelle Katz @pike.and.rozay
Call Your Mother, the award-winning Jew-ish deli, at Pike & Rose will open TOMORROW (Monday, September 20th). Located at 11807 Grand Park Ave. in North Bethesda, MD, the bagel shop and deli will feature homemade, signature bagels, creative sandwiches, coffee, and nostalgic pastries.
We stopped by and took some pictures of the interior and the menu for you to check out (photos at the end of this article).
“We are excited to bring our food and good vibes to the Pike and Rose neighborhood,” said Andrew Dana, co-owner and founder of Call Your Mother. “This dynamic community has long awaited our opening and we look forward to Call Your Mother being a go-to spot.”
This is Call You Mother’s fifth location in the DMV. Similar to the other shops, guests will be able to enjoy favorite menu items like the Royal Palm with cream cheese, smoked salmon, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions and capers on an everything bagel.
In addition to bagels, the deli also offers lunch sandwiches including the Latin Pastrami with pastrami, herb mayo, veggie slaw and jalapeños on rye. The menu also features a variety of pastry items like chocolate babka muffins and yeasted doughnuts.
“It is terrific to welcome this popular D.C. institution to Pike & Rose to enhance our superb food and exceptional dining destinations,” said Federal Realty’s Stuart Biel. “We are known for featuring diverse cuisines and are thrilled to provide a much-needed bagel and deli concept to the neighborhood.”
The deli will be open from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. daily. Online orders are encouraged on weekends and at busy times, and can be placed at https://www.callyourmotherdeli.com/order.
Last November we let you know that Call Your Mother, a “Jew-ish” deli best known for their bagel sandwiches, was planning to open a new location in Pike & Rose.
Now we know when the wait comes to an end, as Call Your Mother has announced it will open on Monday, September 20th at 8am. They’ll be open daily until 2pm.
Call Your Mother will be taking over the space formerly occupied by Lucky, which shut its doors last year.
Call Your Mother currently has three DC locations as well as a trolley location in Bethesda. In addition, you can find their bagels at four different farmers markets throughout the DMV.
The restaurant offers bagels, bagel sandwiches, and deli sandwiches.
Featured image courtesy of Call Your Mother’s instagram.
