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Nov 27, 2007 23:19 - 7 Comments
Posted by: Cindy Cotte Griffiths
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Tags: by Cindy Cotte Griffiths, Lifestyle, shopping, town center
Department: News,No Category
Tags: by Cindy Cotte Griffiths, Lifestyle, shopping, town center
>[Editor's Note: This listing continues to be updated as stores open and CLOSE. Last Updated 3/10/09]
While shopping in Ten Thousand Villages for a housewarming gift today, I met the manager of the Stonefish Grill. His restaurant opened last weekend. There’s still lots of construction in Rockville Town Center (map) so I wondered how many more businesses were going to open. Unfortunately, when I checked the City of Rockville website, the retail information had not been updated since 8/1/07.
Just in time for your holiday shopping and celebrating, I’ve updated the information from the City’s website for you. (Those in italics are not open yet.)
Also, here’s a special offer to keep in mind this week. The Stonefish Grill is offering 99₵ draft beer all day on Thursday 11/29, Friday 11/30, and Saturday 12/1. There will be a complimentary Grand Open Sampler with any entrée. The menu has seafood, salad, meat and pasta choices, which all sound delicious. Po’ Boys are listed for lunch. If the rest of the staff at Stonefish Grill is as nice and friendly as the manager, it will be a great place to eat!
Retail:
Bedheaders Home: Boutique offers “life-enhancing products” including dishware, glassware, bed linens, leather goods, occasional furniture and fine stationery.
Cloud 9 Clothing: Clothing store that carries great denim as well as handbags and accessories.
Cottage Monet: Offers Vera Bradley handbags, belts, and umbrellas; Italian Vietri ceramics;
Thymes lotions and Zutano’s children’s clothing.
CVS Pharmacy: Offers healthcare products and pharmaceutical needs.
Love Your Eyes: Upscale optical boutique.
The Papery: Specializes in boutique stationery from designers in the United States and Europe.
Pomegranate & Co.: A home furnishings and design store.
Red Orchard: Seller of artisan-crafted jewelry, bags, belts and accessories.
Superfresh: Grocery store is not yet open.
Ten Thousand Villages: A company dealing with more than 100 artisan groups in more than 30 countries and offering fair trade jewelry, home décor, gifts and more.
Town Square Jewelers: Offers repair and engraving services, as well as the sale of fine jewelry and watches.
Toy Kingdom: Offers unique toys for boys and girls.
The Waygoose: This former Town Center tradition is returning to Rockville. A unique craft gallery and gift store with a wide variety of handcrafted items from jewelry, pottery, glass and wood.
VisArts: Arts Center, galleries, artists’ studios, classes, wedding receptions, conferences, scouting requirements, and much, much more.
Authorized Cingular Wireless dealer with 11 locations in the Washington metro area.
Service:
Aquanails: Nail salon offering services including manicures, pedicures, acrylic sets, waxing and more.
Chevy Chase Bank: Offers financial products and services.
Gold’s Gym: The largest co-ed gym chain in the world. Offers the latest equipment and services.
Hair Cuttery: A unisex salon whose services include haircuts and color to facial waxing and texturizing services.
Hollywood Tans: Offers both traditional-style tanning booths and UV-free tanning.
HSBC Bank
Jouvence Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa: Offering complete relaxation for the body and total escape for the mind.
RTS Cleaners: A dry cleaning business.
Dining/Entertainment:
Austin Grill: Original Tex Mex cuisine. They make 25 salsas, sauces and dressings from scratch.
Bobby’s Crabcakes: Seafood in a casual environment specializing in crabcake sandwiches, and lobster rolls.
Cosi: Serving coffees, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, soups, bagels, gourmet beverages and desserts.
First Watch Restaurant: Breakfast and brunch concept that serves omelets, French toast and other favorites.
Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries: Began as a family run business in 1986 focusing on serving the best burgers possible.
Fractured Prune: This “design-your-own-donut” shop now has locations throughout Maryland. Their specialty is hot, hand-dipped donuts.
Gifford’s Ice Cream and Candy Co.: Washington, D.C.’s oldest and most distinct ice cream parlor.
Gordon Biersch: Specializes in fresh, hand-crafted beer that is brewed on site.
Greystone Grill: A Maryland-born restaurant featuring entrees of fresh fish, salads, pasta, chops, ribs and Black Angus steaks.
Jerry’s Subs and Pizza: Known for its cheesesteaks and authentic New York style pizza.
La Flor de la Canela: An upscale, full-service Peruvian restaurant.
La Tasca: This Spanish restaurant specialty is tapas—individual dishes that offer a very flexible and sociable way of dining.
Lebanese Taverna: Has bread ovens where fresh pita bread is baked all day. Also known for the shawarma and many mezza combo platters.
Moe’s Southwest Grill has CLOSED. Temporarily the Ice Skating Shack selling tickets and renting skates for the rink.
Noodles & Co.: [NOW OPEN]
Oro Pomodoro: Italian restaurant whose name translates to “Golden Tomato”.
(Tom Siestna of The Washington Post has written a very descriptive piece.)
Primo Italiano: Eat in or carry out restaurant that serves gourmet pizza and subs.
Robeks Fruit Smoothies and Healthy Eats: Offers fruit smoothies freshly squeezed vegetable juices, sandwiches, healthy snacks and nutritional supplements.
Spice Xing: [NOW OPEN]. Fine Indian Cuisine.
Starbucks Coffee: Offers fresh, rich-brewed, Italian-style espresso beverages, a variety of pastries and confections and coffee-related accessories and equipment.
Stonefish Grill has CLOSED.
Sushi Damo: Trendy sushi bar with an extensive menu of sushi and sashimi, as well as other Japanese favorites such as tempura and teryiaki.
Taste of Saigon: (New location Open) Offers authentic Vietnamese dishes, ranging from black pepper soft shell crab to braised lamb shank with spicy sauce.
The Thai Pavilion: Offers authentic Thai cuisine.
Leave a comment if you have an update. Let us know about your favorite specials in Town Center!
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What a useful post!!
Thanks so much for this very informative listing! I can’t wait for the Super Fresh to open. It will be so convenient!!
Rockville Central friend Ruth Hanessian writes: “I am so happy that Waygoose is back. If you need a small hostess gift over the holidays, have them gift wrap a piece of their opal soap. It will perfume the whole powder room.” Thanks Ruth!
Visit to Stonefish report:>
So I was thrilled to read Cindy CG’s report on Town Center businesses. I forwarded it to my wife and we decided to try Stonefish Grill this evening. Now I know it is unfair to harsh a restaurant on the first weekend, but first impressions do matter, and they really blew it.
Let me start positive – we were thrilled by the dollar draft beers. Good opening gimic as gimics go. And the bar staff are friendly, energetic, and fun people who did a good job of promoting the live music offerings (every Thursday and Sunday) and the current act.
The big big negative was the service. The 18?? year old who eventually stumbled to our table didn’t seem to have ever eaten in a restaurant, much less worked in one. We had to ask for everything, from water to pepper to our entrees. We never did receive bread. My wife ordered Rockfish with a Pecan Crust. I ordered the BBQ Salmon. When the entrees arrived before the salads we ordered, he seemed perplexed that we sent them back. Then we received entree size salads instead of the small sizes that we added to the entrees (and were initially charged for the large). The Rockfish was not pecan crusted, when we sent it back the same plate came back with an unfortunate sauce drizzled on top. She liked it better before the sauce. Oh- for that matter, I think these were the same entrees that were presented 10 minutes earlier (before the salad).
The food wasn’t bad – but didn’t compare to Bonefish in the Kentlands.
I love town center, I love Peroni beer on tap, and I love live music so I’ll be back to try Stonefish again. But not for a month or three. Meanwhile I really wish I had tried the Peruvian place. Free valet parking and people coming out were pretty happy.
I see that Taste of Saigon is listed as being open in Town Center–but is this referencing the old Taste of Saigon that is across the street from Town Center? That’s been there for years–I wouldn’t consider it part of the new development.>
My wife and I ate at Bobby’s Crabcakes Friday night and it was delicious! I highly recommend it.
The new Taste of Saigon location will be next to the CVS on Beall Avenue. It is listed as open because it is open at its current, old location but it will be moving and will be part of Town Center.
Greg>
Stonefish has closed!! According to Federal Realty a new restaurant will be opening within 60 days and they have already signed a new lease. They said the restaurant’s name will be public in 1 to 2 weeks.