What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?

[Anonymous]

+1 for Chi-chi's ....LOVED the fried ice-cream.

[Anonymous]

I miss a lot of the bars around GW. I'll miss Third Edition in Gtown, even if I hadn't been there in at least 5 years. I really miss Music City Roadhouse. And in VA, I miss Whiteys (though I like Tallula/EatBar a lot) and I am still mourning the demise of Restaurant 3.

Also, I lived in Merrifield for 12 years and one night while pregnant I drove to the late-night taco bell with a craving.... and found a big hole in the ground. They had razed it somehow without me knowing. I was devastated! lol.

Can this be true? How could this have happened?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To those who went to American University in the 80's: What was the name of the Italian Restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue that had a bar in the basement (with its own entrance)? It was next door to some artsy fartsy movie theater and served the strongest drinks known to mankind....

Floriana's?

I miss that movie theater too.

[Anonymous]

Boogies Diner, Fritzbees in Rockville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I miss a lot of the bars around GW. I'll miss Third Edition in Gtown, even if I hadn't been there in at least 5 years. I really miss Music City Roadhouse. And in VA, I miss Whiteys (though I like Tallula/EatBar a lot) and I am still mourning the demise of Restaurant 3.

Also, I lived in Merrifield for 12 years and one night while pregnant I drove to the late-night taco bell with a craving.... and found a big hole in the ground. They had razed it somehow without me knowing. I was devastated! lol.

Can this be true? How could this have happened?!?

They did it to the Taco Bell in Rosslyn next to Dreamo's! Very sad day indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To those who went to American University in the 80's: What was the name of the Italian Restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue that had a bar in the basement (with its own entrance)? It was next door to some artsy fartsy movie theater and served the strongest drinks known to mankind....

Floriana's?

I miss that movie theater too.

Nope, Floriana was on the other side of Wisconsin. PP is talking about The Round Table. Both of them were awesome for very different reasons.

[Anonymous]

I so miss Red Sea on 18th St.
But I have found the Red Sea replacement in Abyssinian on Ga. Ave in DTSS

But since I've been here all my life, here are a few more.

Peter Pan Inn (Urbana)
Roy Rogers (anywhere near by)
Hot Shoppes Cafeteria - Wheaton Plaza
An Loi - now the Macys at Wheaton Plaza
Swensons - anywhere
Bob's Famous Ice Cream

[Anonymous]

Didn't Floriana move across the street in the 90s? It then moved to Dupont Circle at some point and is still doing business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I so miss Red Sea on 18th St.
But I have found the Red Sea replacement in Abyssinian on Ga. Ave in DTSS

But since I've been here all my life, here are a few more.

Peter Pan Inn (Urbana)
Roy Rogers (anywhere near by)
Hot Shoppes Cafeteria - Wheaton Plaza
An Loi - now the Macys at Wheaton Plaza
Swensons - anywhere
Bob's Famous Ice Cream

I forgot about Bob's! So much better than Gifford's. They had the best black raspberry ice cream.

My parents' rehearsal dinner was at the Peter Pan Inn in 1964.

[Anonymous]

Floriana is now on the NW corner of 17th & Q. Not sure of its connection to previous iterations.

[Anonymous]

Graffettis on rockville Pike. anyone remember the popgun kids menu? and huge salad bar and the long wait for a table.
also a mexican resturant in rockville with no menus. Sweet guava with honey for desert. Near White Flint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1 for Chi-chi's ....LOVED the fried ice-cream.

Was this a chain? I think we had one up in NJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Houlihans

Ah, playing Ms. PacMan in the bar and eating zucchini sticks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1 for Chi-chi's ....LOVED the fried ice-cream.

Was this a chain? I think we had one up in NJ.

Yes, and until PP mentioned it I didn't realize it folded. (I hadn't been there since high school and loved the fried ice cream too.) Apparently, there was a Hep A outbreak related to some green onions used in the food. Chi Chis went bankrupt paying the lawsuits.

[Anonymous]

Fred and Harry's Seafood and Ferdinand!s in Silver Spring/Wheaton.