Duck Duck Goose launches website, applies for liquor license
The new French brasserie filling the former Brasserie Monte Carlo space on Norfolk Avenue in Bethesda is aiming for a January 2016 opening, owner Ashish Alfred said Thursday. Alfred, who also owns 4935 Bar & Kitchen, said updates to the 1,000-square-foot space are underway. The restaurant has applied for a liquor license and is scheduled to appear Jan. 7 before the Board of License Commissioners. Alfred has also launched a website for Duck Duck Goose, which features an image of squid ink pasta—one of the opening menu items.
Squid ink pasta photo via Duck Duck Goose's new website
New Twinbrook Safeway now open
The new Safeway grocery store at The Galvan apartment building in Twinbrook opened Wednesday. The grocery store celebrated the grand opening with a ribbon-cutting featuring Rockville Mayor Bridge Donnell Newton and the Richard Montgomery High School marching band. The 24-hour store includes typical grocery sections as well as what the company says is Safeway’s largest selection of Kosher products, totaling about 750 items. The 62,000-square-foot store is at 1800 Rockville Pike, about a block south of the Twinbrook Metro station in Rockville.
Today is the grand opening of the Safeway at the Galvan, an HCM-designed multifamily, mixed-use project in Rockville pic.twitter.com/5rZ6PIylbT
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DLC to offer designated driver service gift cards during the holiday season
Montgomery County’s Department of Liquor Control will offer $20 gift cards toward a designated driver service during the holidays this year as part of a partnership designed to cut down on drunken driving. The gift cards will be available at the DLC’s 25 liquor stores and the program is being sponsored by Brown-Forman, a liquor and wine producer, under the company’s Jack Daniel’s brand, according to the DLC
Inferno Pizzeria heating up dishes with Calabrian chilies this winter
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Chef Tony Conte’s new Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana already appears to be a hit, at least with the amateur reviewers on Yelp—who have praised the former Oval Room chef’s Neapolitan-style pies in dozens of online reviews since the North Potomac restaurant opened in October. The chef—whose tenure at the Oval Room earned the Washington, D.C., restaurant a three-and-a-half star rating from The Washington Post, just below the four-star maximum rating—is now adding Calabrian chilies to spice up some menu items. Customers can get the chilies, which are grown in the southern Italian region of Calabria and can be nearly as spicy as habanero peppers, on the restaurant’s heirloom cherry tomato pizza, roasted beet salad or shaved vegetable salad, according to the restaurant.
Photo: Beet salad at Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana. via Inferno Pizzeria
