Terrain Cafe has permanently closed at 7728 Woodmont Avenue at Bethesda Row. "It is with great sadness that we permanently close the doors to Terrain Cafe in Bethesda, MD," the Terrain company said in a statement. "Thank you to our customers, neighbors, and employees for the years of support. Terrain retail store in Bethesda, MD remains open." It's sad to see the restaurant go at that corner, where the new plaza outside Terrain and Anthropologie is just being completed.
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Always surprised by how extremely limited their hours and days of operation were. Presumably the rent is high, so only being open a handful of hours and only on certain days seems like a pretty obvious way to fail. Hopefully whatever moves in next will do a better job activating that corner 12+ hours a day/7 days a week.
Honestly, this is unsurprising. I forgot it was even there.
Why did it even open? I'm being serious. Man, I really miss Barnes and Noble & the not really *$, *$. That closing signaled the end of Bethesda as we know it...(and the yoga store murder.)
The cafe never made sense. Anthropologie bought the Terrain brand several years ago which had two very famous home and garden stores outside of Philly and in CT. They are very successful and also have nice cafes. When they opened in Bethesda, they tried to mimic that but only with one foot in. The footprint for Terrain is tiny in that store. Maybe they will expand the home garden piece more now that they don't need the restaurant.
2:47 PM Indeed that was the beginning of the end for nostalgic Bethesda.
@ 2:47 PM - And Flanagan’s/Harp & Fiddle. And Tastee Diner’s late night hours.
They struggled to stay open from the start. When they first opened they had to run a free lunch promotion just to stay afloat. Food was mediocre at best so not surprised to see them go.
The end of “nostalgic Bethesda” came when they razed Hot Shoppes, the Hiser movie theater, and Maloney Concrete, long before you arrived in the scene.
I arrived on the scene in 1963, Mr Wizard.
Dear 5:55,
Anyone who identifies B&N as the touchstone of old Bethesda is an outsider, no matter when he was born. That national chain store had an outpost in Bethesda for a scant 21 years, *decades* less than the time the above-named local businesses served this community.
You miss the grand old days of B&N? Visit any one of the store's almost 600 still open shops across America and recapture the glory. Something not so easily accomplished with the shuttered local businesses.
Sincerely,
Mr. Wizard
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