Best suburb for food

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two days off during a week and go looking for restaurants. Last week I went to La Limena Grill and El Patio. Both were nice, but El Patio is more my kind of place with salads, meat and empanadas. They had a lunch special with soup/salad and two empanadas for under $8 I believe.
Tried to get to an Ethiopian place in Silver Spring but parking was non-existent.
Any recommendations in Wheaton/Rockville with easier parking?

1) Beteseb Restaurant in Silver Spring there is parking lot nearby. This place is the best.
2) Sheba in Rockville.

[Anonymous]

Woodmont, Olazzo and Gringos & Mariachis are by far the most consistent restaurants in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Olazzo is solid. Gringos is hugely overrated for food in general. It’s ideal for HH but if you’re going there for dinner, you can do much better.

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Best sushi is at Blue Ocean in Fairfax.

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Not a fan of Korean food so not Annandale.

Rockville is best

[Anonymous]

Springfield and Annandale, Silver Spring/Wheaton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Olazzo is solid. Gringos is hugely overrated for food in general. It’s ideal for HH but if you’re going there for dinner, you can do much better.

Solid and consistent are about the best you can say for Olazzo. It's a perfectly fine red sauce joint.

Interesting that the newer part of Bethesda has three new taco places opening up that all seem like they have potential (although they are chain-ish).

I like Virraj best for Indian but I know others who like Kadhai or Heritage India better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Bethesda and have never recc’d true food to someone.

Have you tried any of the Indian (Virraj, Heritage or Kadhai)?

I think Casa Oaxaca is better than Gringos. We’ve only tried Cubanos a couple times bcs it opened this location during the pandemic but liked it a lot. Tako grill is pretty good too. RIP Chicken on the Run so need to try Don Pollo.

That said it’s true rents are cheaper elsewhere and if you better Thai you should check out Wheaton (although I am usually fine with Sal Thai) and if you want chinese Rockville has some options (although plenty of people like Q by Peter Chang, or Hollywood East for dim sum).

Well you just broke my heart. That’s my DS’s favorite restaurant (and one of ours), and he comes home from college for the summer on Wednesday.

Oh, no! Did not know about Chicken on the Run. That was our go-to for kid dinners.

[Anonymous]

DC suburbs are higly stratified by nationality when it comes to food. You won't really find one suburb that has all the different cheap/ethnic eats and all the suburbs with a large diversity of cuisines are expensive ones where the food will be dumbed down for wypipo tastes.

There is amazing food in suburbs all over the DC area, you'll just have to travel to different suburbs for different food. There are outlier restaurants, but as a broad overview:

Rockville: Chinese/Indian
Gaithersburg: Indian
Silver Spring: Ethiopian
Wheaton/Langley Park/Riverdale: Salvadoran/"Mexican"
McLean/Tysons: Persian
Annandale: Korean
Bailey's Crossroads: Ethiopian/Middle Eastern
Seven Corners: Vietnamese
Fairfax: Indian/Chinese/Korean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC suburbs are higly stratified by nationality when it comes to food. You won't really find one suburb that has all the different cheap/ethnic eats and all the suburbs with a large diversity of cuisines are expensive ones where the food will be dumbed down for wypipo tastes.

There is amazing food in suburbs all over the DC area, you'll just have to travel to different suburbs for different food. There are outlier restaurants, but as a broad overview:

Rockville: Chinese/Indian
Gaithersburg: Indian
Silver Spring: Ethiopian
Wheaton/Langley Park/Riverdale: Salvadoran/"Mexican"
McLean/Tysons: Persian
Annandale: Korean
Bailey's Crossroads: Ethiopian/Middle Eastern
Seven Corners: Vietnamese
Fairfax: Indian/Chinese/Korean

Obviously your list is "generally speaking" but I like it. I'd also add Silver Spring is really good for Cuban.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Springfield and Annandale, Silver Spring/Wheaton

Nice to see some Springfield love.

Brookfield Plaza for the win!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC suburbs are higly stratified by nationality when it comes to food. You won't really find one suburb that has all the different cheap/ethnic eats and all the suburbs with a large diversity of cuisines are expensive ones where the food will be dumbed down for wypipo tastes.

There is amazing food in suburbs all over the DC area, you'll just have to travel to different suburbs for different food. There are outlier restaurants, but as a broad overview:

Rockville: Chinese/Indian
Gaithersburg: Indian
Silver Spring: Ethiopian
Wheaton/Langley Park/Riverdale: Salvadoran/"Mexican"
McLean/Tysons: Persian
Annandale: Korean
Bailey's Crossroads: Ethiopian/Middle Eastern
Seven Corners: Vietnamese
Fairfax: Indian/Chinese/Korean

Obviously your list is "generally speaking" but I like it. I'd also add Silver Spring is really good for Cuban.

Where? I haven't found any good cuban/puerto rican food here.

Casa Mofongo - not good

[Anonymous]

Bethesda is wasteland for good food. But here are some mediocre options I’ve had: olazzo, Dog Haus for burgers, sala thai, tatte, korean fried chicken at pike and rose..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda is wasteland for good food. But here are some mediocre options I’ve had: olazzo, Dog Haus for burgers, sala thai, tatte, korean fried chicken at pike and rose..

The problem with Bethesda is that it caters to the UMC "I'm hip" type crowd but who probably don't actually mingle with a lot of other races/cultures/ethnicities.

I've traveled around Western Europe a bit, and the best foods are usually the hole in the wall places frequented by locals, with plastic chairs and tables. I don't see the Bethesda crowd going to these types of places.

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Rockville, I no longer live there, but we drive there when we go out. Tons of options, most very good and not chain restaurants