Little Beet Table, a completely-gluten-free restaurant with locations in New York, Chicago and Greenwich, is currently on-target to open by the end of this month at the Collection at Chevy Chase in Friendship Heights. The upscale-but-casual atmosphere is reflected in the fine details of the impressive and welcoming interior design, with window views.
Little Beet Table's owner says the Chevy Chase area is starved for a restaurant like this. With a concept as a gathering place for families and friends to enjoy healthy, locally-sourced meals, Little Beet Table is a good fit for the shopping center's new direction.
Once a high-end retail destination for the ultra-rich, on a stretch of Wisconsin Avenue formerly known as "Montgomery County's Rodeo Drive," the Collection had become a row of vacant storefronts as many of the wealthiest fled to lower-tax jurisdictions in the region. In response, landlord Chevy Chase Land Company has revamped the shopping center to make it a community gathering place where patrons will want to linger outdoors on new plazas and public spaces.
Signs of life at the Collection!
ReplyDeleteThis will be out of business within a year or two. Look at their menu...no one is paying $10 for a roasted sweet potato or $16 for an appetizer plate of hummus and pita. I can't imagine the rent in that location paired with the majority of an older crowd that lives in that area meshing well with a restaurant like this.
ReplyDelete"The upscale-but-casual atmosphere is reflected in the fine details of the impressive and welcoming interior design"
ReplyDeleteDid you write this yourself, Robbie?
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I would find this otherwise informative blog more enjoyable without the constant injection of politics.
ReplyDelete5:28: Where is the injection of politics in the article?
ReplyDelete6:19: Facts that happen to make your guys look bad aren't politics. Politics would be saying a councilmember is terrible because he is a Democrat. If the councilmember embezzles $6 million from the taxpayers through a fall guy whom he then leaves out to dry when caught - and I then report that - those are facts, not politics.
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ReplyDelete"Once a high-end retail destination for the ultra-rich, on a stretch of Wisconsin Avenue formerly known as "Montgomery County's Rodeo Drive," the Collection had become a row of vacant storefronts as many of the wealthiest fled to lower-tax jurisdictions in the region."
6:47: How is that political? It's a statement of fact, backed up by statistics showing the specific amount of revenue that those residents took with them to each county in our region. The vacant storefronts are also factual, and can be verified by anyone walking on Wisconsin Avenue there over the last several years.
ReplyDeleteBoth led to the landowner revamping, and retargeting the demographics of, the shopping center - very relevant to this news article. In my view, what would be political, would be someone claiming our elected officials are still great despite these documented failures.
"the Collection had become a row of vacant storefronts as many of the wealthiest fled to lower-tax jurisdictions in the region."
ReplyDeleteThose shops "fled" to the ultra-high-tax District of Columbia, not to Loudoun County, Rappahannock County, Culpeper County or Howard County.
What unwritten rule of your blog does posting this fact violate?
8:36: The rule of being a liar, diversion artist and dumbass - it's the rich PEOPLE who fled to other counties, not the stores. Those counties already have high-end stores from Tysons to Leesburg to Middleburg to Columbia. What's relevant to the decline in County revenue is that the rich PEOPLE took their tax money and are paying (much less of it) in other jurisdictions instead of here, tanking our revenue.
ReplyDeleteD.C. is lower-tax than MoCo, by the way, as is every other jurisdiction in our region.
Only three brands that used to have stores in The Collection also have stores in Tysons (Galleria or Fairfax Square) - Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren - but all were there before The Collection opened.
ReplyDeleteBvlgari and Christian Dior have stores only in CityCenterDC, which opened there after their stores in The Collection closed.
Gucci still sells their brand out of Saks Fifth Avenue a few hundred feet north of there.
Jimmy Choo no longer has any stores in the region, and Barney's Co-op closed all their stores nationwide.
None of those chains - including Tiffany which remains at The Collection - have stores in Middleburg or Columbia.
...and none in Leesburg, either - unless you count the Ralph Lauren Factory Store.
ReplyDelete12:02 PM - Jimmy Choo went bankrupt and was bought at auction by Michael Kors.
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