New Potomac Irish restaurant planning mid-March opening
Lahinch Tavern and Grill, the new Irish restaurant replacing Benny’s Bar and Grill in Potomac, announced on its Facebook page last week it’s planning a mid-March opening and is hiring staff. Chris Hughes, the owner of Glen Echo’s longtime Irish Inn restaurant, is opening the new location with a menu similar to the Inn’s. Hughes said in October when he discussed plans for the restaurant with Bethesda Beat that he’ll be moving one of his chefs and the general manager at the Irish Inn to the new restaurant at 7747 Tuckerman Lane.
It's not yet clear if the restaurant will open in time for St. Patrick's Day March 17, but the restaurant noted on its Facebook page it hopes to be open by the Irish holiday.
La Limena opening new restaurant at former Potomac Grill location on Rockville Pike
La Limena, the popular Peruvian restaurant on Rockville Pike, is preparing to open a second restaurant in Rockville. La Limena owner Emma Perez told The Washington Post last month she’ll open a sister restaurant at the former Potomac Grill spot also on Rockville Pike near Woodmont Country Club. The two restaurants will be within a quarter mile of each other. Potomac Grill closed last year after a nine-year run at the location. Perez told the Post she plans to offer La Limena’s signature charcoal rotisserie chicken as well as other Peruvian and Cuban dishes at the new restaurant, which she says will be about twice the size as the original.
New restaurant appears ready to fill former Nest Café location in Bethesda
A restaurant called The Shore House has applied to the Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control for a liquor license for 4921 Bethesda Ave. That space is the former location of Nest Café, which closed last year and posted a sign saying it was undergoing renovations. Bethesda Beat attempted to contact the applicants for The Shore House’s liquor license, Gary and Jennifer Day, earlier this month, but was unable to reach them. The liquor license application is scheduled to be heard March 3 before the Montgomery County Board of License Commissioners.
