Jaleo to Celebrate National Paella Day
Friday is national paella day, according to whoever coins these now-ubiquitous special days, and Jaleo in Bethesda is celebrating. The Spanish tapas restaurant will be offering $6 plates of its Valenciana Paella. The paella features chicken and rabbit and rice cooked in one of the restaurant’s special paella pans. The restaurant usually only produces this signature dish for large groups, but on Friday it will be serving individual portions all day.
Urban Heights is Hiring
Urban Heights, the hotly anticipated remake of Roof by the Robert Wiedmaier Restaurant Group, is looking for staff. The restaurant at 7940 Norfolk Ave., Bethesda, is holding a job fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Saturday to find bartenders, servers, hostesses, bussers, line cooks, prep cooks, dishwashers and food runners. Cliff Wharton, a former chef at Matchbox Vintage Pizza Bistro in Rockville and now-closed TenPenh in Washington, D.C., has signed on to be the chef at the new restaurant. A partner in the restaurant group said in February they’re hoping to open in April.
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Easter Egg Hunt before Easter Brunch and Dinner at City Perch
City Perch, the new restaurant near the iPic Theaters at Pike & Rose in North Bethesda, has a litany of activities planned for Easter Sunday on April 5. Parents can bring their kids to the restaurant for an Easter egg hunt from 10 to 10:30 a.m. The restaurant will also be serving an Easter brunch for $35 per person. The three-course brunch will include a first-course salad with lardo, pea shoots and radishes; a second course featuring sausage and baked eggs with stewed tomatoes and roasted peppers; and a third course of carrot cake soufflé with cream cheese, walnuts and toffee.
The restaurant is also offering a $50 per guest Easter dinner menu featuring squash blossoms, slow-braised lamb shank and the carrot cake soufflé.
Sweetgreen Launches New Menu Items
The salad chain Sweetgreen is adding three new items to its menu in honor of spring. The new items include an umami grain bowl with wild rice, quinoa, roasted mushrooms, red onion, tofu swiss chard, sunflower seeds and a miso sesame ginger dressing; a blue cheese and bacon salad; and a roasted salmon and radish salad served with kale, arugula and a mustard-oregano vinaigrette. The new menu items premiered Wednesday at local Sweetgreen locations. The chain has locations at 4831 Bethesda Ave. on Bethesda Row and at 8517 Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring.
