The much-anticipated full-service restaurants coming to what used to be Bethesda’s Lot 31 are both shooting for late August or early September openings.
Silver, a more upscale concept from the Silver Diner, will open on the first floor of The Flats apartment building along its Woodmont Avenue side.
Ype Von Hengst, Silver Diner’s executive chef and co-founder, said the restaurant will offer breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night menus that feature cast-iron skillet egg dishes.
“We have that late night experience from Silver Diner,” Hengst said.
Some of the top items from the Silver Diner, which underwent a farm-to-table makeover on its menu a few years ago, will be included at Silver.
The restaurant will have a bar featuring craft cocktails and beers in a location directly across from the well-known Bethesda Row development.
Doug Firstenberg, a principal at StonebridgeCarras (which co-developed the project) said the company sought out restaurants such as PAUL Bakery, PassionFish and Silver.
“They serve four meals a day, breakfast through late-night,” Firstenberg said of the new Silver Diner concept. “Where else can you find that in Bethesda?”
PassionFish, a gourmet seafood restaurant from the same restaurant group that owns DC Coast and Fuego Cocina y Tequileria, will open on the ground floor of The Darcy condo building at the corner of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues.
Staff from the restaurants handed out samples Thursday as StonebridgeCarras, co-developer PN Hoffman and Montgomery County celebrated the official ribbon-cutting for the project.
The county partnered with the developers, who built a county underground garage and buildings on the former site of a surface parking lot.
PassionFish is set to open in late August on the ground floor of The Darcy condominium building in Bethesda. Credit: Aaron Kraut
