Thursday Potpourri
A “Two-Concept Spot”
In Washington Post restaurant news, Gillian Clark’s excellent establishment in DC, Colorado Kitchen, will be shuttering its doors. While sad, she says she is now going to focus her efforts on opening a “two-concept spot in Silver Spring.” From the article:
The upstairs will be a casual dining and carryout called The General Store, while the downstairs will be a bar and restaurant called the Post Office Tavern. Though there will be more space, Clark said that the food will be much simpler than it is at Colorado Kitchen. For example, she’s currently designing an all-waffle brunch that will include items such as a savory corn-flour waffle with herbs and seafood and an eggs Benedict waffle. On Sunday evenings, there will be one menu item — something like pot roast or fried chicken– served family-style.
I certainly like the concept(s). Questions, though: Where will the aforementioned establishment be? When will it open? (Anything more specific than “in the fall?”)
All About the Money
Live Nation will be getting close to $800,000 in tax breaks over the next 10 years. Big whoop. Anticipated revenue for the county during that time is close to $11 million. And the Lees get all the options they want for surrounding development in exchange for donating the property. When does the digging begin?
And in other money news, both the Silver Spring Transit Center and the Silver Spring Civic Center don’t have enough of it. Go figure.
Silk Purse out of a Sow’s Ear
There’s been a lot of buzz about upgrades and improvements planned for the Silver Spring Giant at The Blairs. It would appear that Royal Aholes Ahold, the parent company, finally started listening to all the bitching and moaning about the general crappiness of the facilities there and the (albeit minor) threat of another grocery store in the area. I still want my Harris Teeter.
And since some people don’t seem to understand what’s wrong with the Giant (and yes, the Thayer Safeway *is* worse), I’m thinking of doing a video blog with a camera in the store to highlight all of its shortcomings. Hoping it won’t be another Chip Py incident.
Don’t Tase Me, Bro!
According to yesterday’s Delaware Coast Press: “Montgomery County Police say a Silver Spring man had to be subdued by Taser after he stabbed his roommate, himself and threatened officers with a knife.”
The incident happened in the 1000 block of Ruatan Street. For those of you not familiar with that street, I’ll give you three guesses as to the area of Silver Spring we’re talking about. The first two don’t count.
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I *think* the new Gillian Clark spot is supposed to be in that old castle-looking building where Forest Glen Rd meets Seminary/Capitol View.
Oh, and since this is MoCo, “in the fall” surely means next June if we’re lucky. Plenty of aggravating MoCo red-tape ahead, as any local restaurateur will attest.
According to Washingtonian.com, the new restaurant will be in Woodside and will open in October.
However, Easley Does It may be on the mark with the old castle on Forest Glen Rd. Not exactly Woodside, if you ask me.
Yeah, but what I thought was Woodside appears to be Montgomery Hills.
And I would also expect that “Fall” really means “early Spring” in restaurant opening terms.
Some Dutch dudes will kick your ass for videotaping in there.
I believe it’s actually going to be in the old general store next to the castle.
I’m bummed about Colorado Kitchen. My impression was that it was a gem in a Brightwood neighborhood that otherwise had few other good dining options (I don’t go to Brightwood much, so maybe I’m wrong on this account). And the new location is outside of my “restaurant-shed” (i.e., it’s not within walking distance of my home). Maybe if the new place gets good reviews we’ll make a special car trip. Then again, maybe not. Colorado Kitchen was fun without the kids but is not very kid friendly.
I wish they’d move closer to the SS CBD…
I think Batman is right. There’s a wooden frame house right next to the “castle” that’s been under renovation for a while now.
As a North Woodside resident, I couldn’t be happier about this.
That wooden frame house is the old general store. I forgot how great that place used to be.
The ‘two concept’ concept at first red sounded for all the world like Franklin’s in Hyattsville. That’s a great model to emulate.
I had heard that there was a new neighborhood-type restaurant going into the old Forest Glen train station (or was it a hotel near the train station? I can’t remember right now), so this could certainly be it. They’ve been trying to get that place fixed up and consistently occupied for years. It’s a pretty cool building with a fascinating history. I’ll bet Jerry McCoy could dredge up some old photos if we asked him nicely.
We used to live near there, in the Carroll Knolls neighborhood, and I can tell you that we’d have given our right arms to have a decent restaurant within walking distance. (OK, maybe the left one– I’d need the right one to eat waffles with.) With the new residential development going on at the old Seminary, it should do well.