Friday, May 03, 2019

La Panetteria to reopen tonight in Bethesda

Longtime Italian restaurant La Panetteria, now under new ownership, will officially reopen for dinner tonight at 4921 Cordell Avenue in Bethesda. They closed in mid-April for a few weeks of renovations after the new owners took over.

The new menu keeps most of the Italian favorites they had before, but also adds some Argentinian dishes, according to an employee. La Panetteria will be open for dinner hours only tonight, and for regular lunch and dinner hours starting tomorrow, May 4.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Also they had some problems with County food inspections in recent weeks.

"Food protected from contamination", "Cooling time and temperature", "Cold holding temperature".

Anonymous said...

An Italian restaurant with Argentine dishes? Is nothing sacred any longer?
It's only a ploy to get rid of the "Italian Restaurant" slowly. Anyone been the Wheaton lately? That's how they got rid of Marchones, a bit at a time.

Roald said...

Openings, closings and openings again

Robert Dyer said...

7:51: That would have to have been under the previous owner. Tonight is the first night of operation under the new owner.

Suze said...

@8:07 - While I'd certainly miss La Panetteria (I had my rehearsal dinner there!) an Argentine place wouldn't be so bad. Divino Lounge was amazing, and is sorely missed. A new Argentinian restaurant could do very well. (Especially in a busier part of Bethesda - Divino was hurt by its location on Wisconsin, not a lot of foot traffic to drive business.)

Anonymous said...

Son of Parva?

Anonymous said...

Should have stayed closed.

GDT said...

The new owner is Argentinian but had Italian restaurants before.Great chef.

GDT said...

That's life!

GDT said...

Anonymous, go to the place and try it, stop whining!

GDT said...

Agree with you.

GDT said...

Best of luck!

Anonymous said...

Mr. Dyer - how come you can't get the comments on this blog to show in the same order between the "web" format and the "mobile" format? Specifically, the mobile format shows subthreads whereas the web format shows all comments in a single thread. I couldn't tell who GDT was talking to when I viewed this in web format.

None of the other blogs on Suburban News Network have this issue.

Also the time zones are set to the correct time zone, and you can go to "next article" and "previous article" directly from the comment pages, in the other blogs.

Anonymous said...

4:17PM So I guess he thinks the Falklands are the Malvinas. I'll find another Italian Restaurant. One that serves Italian dishes exclusively.

Robert Dyer said...

4:28: It's because this blog was started in 2006 with the old Blogger platform, which had been improved and updated by the time I launched the other 3 websites this decade. Why Google engineers are too dumb to make it work, and why they in so many ways punish those who were the earliest adopters of their platform, I do not know.

Anonymous said...

I find it hard to believe that Google won't let you change the clock settings on your legacy blog.

Or that they won't let you migrate your legacy blog to a newer format.

Robert Dyer said...

5:47: The clock settings are by choice. No, Google will not allow this blog to migrate to a newer format.

Baloney Concrete said...

7:11: Interesting. Why did you choose to set the time on this hyper-local blog to Pacific time?

Anonymous said...

...and not the other three active blogs on Suburban News Network?

"No, Google will not allow this blog to migrate to a newer format for free."

Anna said...

7:35AM - Aha. I see. Although with it being a legitimate business expense, it would be worth it.

really? you delete this and leave the 7;35 comment? what, pray tell, rule does this break?