The sign is up at The Velvet Room at 8020 Norfolk Avenue in downtown Bethesda. It's another "sign" of work on the speakeasy now proceeding at a much faster pace, after over a year of delays. There is now a website for the establishment, where you can get on their mailing list ahead of the opening. With the demise of Turncoat in the ongoing Friendship Heights crashout at the hands of our bumbling, stumbling Montgomery County Council, The Velvet Room will be the only dedicated speakeasy in Montgomery County.
8 comments:
Wow, that is some amateur typography on that signage. I hope they can do better with a Negroni.
Velvet Room Speakeasy? Bethesda has zero nightlife. That's be a coffee shop or pizza joint soon.
Finally some progress. They were first going to be a karaoke place, and now a speakeasy. Liquor license was already approved in November 2024, so construction is taking forever.
It's a good concept as there aren't many higher-end places for a drink, but the team behind it will need to have some experience in the industry to make it work, and I'm not sure they do.
JAC probably is in bed by 8pm. Bethesda has pretty decent nightlife for its size. I was out last weekend and Caddies, Catrina, Tommy Joe's, Gringos, and BTs were all reasonably full.
Why not link to your own article about the flash-in-the-pan that was The Heights food hall, which included Turncoat and several other restaurants? The Heights’ quick demise was caused by poor management.
Wow. That looks absolutely terrible. Talk about zero curb appeal. Hard pass.
that sign looks tacky. i could of made something better!
@5:50 - Thanks for clarifying that. For the life of me I couldn't fathom just what the dreded MoCo govt had to do with its demise.
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