Construction underway at new Ethiopian restaurant in Bethesda

Construction has begun inside the future Ethiopian restaurant taking over the Grapeseed space at 4865 Cordell Avenue. I noticed that restaurant's name is listed differently on its liquor license application, which refers to it as Dinqnesh Ethiopian, instead of Lucy. Both names refer to the 3.5 million-year-old fossil Lucy, a female hominin found in Hadar in the 1970s.

The name change may be to distinguish this location from the owners' original Silver Spring restaurant, also called Lucy. Workers were going in and out of the Cordell Avenue space yesterday evening. An employee reached by phone at their Silver Spring location said no official opening date has been announced, but that they are tentatively hoping to open in January.