The owner of Bob's Shanghai 66 and Bob's Noodle in Rockville is opening a new restaurant in downtown Bethesda. Bob's Bethesda will be located at 7776 Norfolk Avenue, in the ground floor of the Windsor Bethesda apartment tower. That is the space recently vacated by Anthony's Coal-Fired Pizza, next to Medium Rare. Bob's Shanghai 66 is a fixture on top restaurant lists in the D.C. region, both in wider competition against all cuisines, and in the Chinese category. Many call it the best Chinese restaurant in the D.C. area.
This won't be the first Bethesda venture for the "Bob's" empire. Ten years ago, owner Ivan Liang opened a variation on the Shanghai 66 concept in the Dining Terrace food court at Westfield Montgomery Mall. It closed two years later. Reviews of the mall concept were favorable, however.
Construction is getting started on Bob's Bethesda. The windows of the space were papered over yesterday. Boxes have been loaded in over the last several weeks. Don't record the "Bob's Bethesda" name in stone yet, though - the Montgomery Mall restaurant changed names at least twice before opening in 2015.
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