BRICKSIDE TO LAUNCH LUNCH APRIL 7 IN BETHESDA

Popular Cordell Avenue restaurant and bar Brickside Food and Drink is launching lunch hours on Monday, April 7 at 11:00 AM. Brickside already has been serving dinner, and weekend brunch, since opening just over a year ago.

Brickside, 4866 Cordell Avenue, (301) 312-6160

BETHESDA MARCH MADNESS SPECIALS - BETHESDA BARS NCAA TOURNAMENT

March Madness is here in Bethesda.

Brickside Food and Drink will open at noon today, and have food and drink specials. They also have a 160" HD screen, and 5 51" screens to watch all the games.

Meanwhile, Union Jack's Bethesda has 25 screens, $10 pitchers of Miller Lite or Yuengling, and their famous $2 College Can Roulette.

MARYLAND VS. BOSTON COLLEGE GAME WATCH AT BRICKSIDE TONIGHT AT 9 PM - BETHESDA TERPS GAME WATCH

Enjoy the Maryland vs. Boston College game tonight at the newest bar and restaurant in downtown Bethesda - Brickside Food and Drink, on Cordell Ave.

There will be food and drink specials starting at 8 PM (the game starts at 9:00):

$3 Natty Bo or NB Light, PBR, Busch Light,

$4 rails, domestic drafts, or house wine

BBQ Chicken Pops $5.95

Polenta Fries with Bleu Cheese Dip $3.95

Burger with smoked bacon and Cheddar $8.95

Brickside Food and Drink, 4866 Cordell Avenue, Bethesda.

BRICKSIDE BETHESDA GRAND OPENING SCHEDULE

The grand opening of Brickside Food and Drink on Cordell Avenue will start tomorrow, February 15, at 4:00 PM.   Festivities will commence with a ribbon cutting by the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce.

At 5:00, there will be live music by Willem Dickie, and plenty of bar specials, menu specials, and raffle prizes.  The party will continue until close.

BRICKSIDE BETHESDA GRAND OPENING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15

Bethesda's newest restaurant, Brickside Food & Drink, has been open for a week or so.

But next Friday, the owners are making it official.

Join them at Brickside Friday, February 15, for a grand opening party.  There will be music, specials, a few surprises when you step up to the bar, and even some door prizes to win.

BRICKSIDE MENU BETHESDA - BRICKSIDE FOOD & DRINK OPENS - FULL MENU (PHOTOS)

Brickside Food & Drink opened yesterday on Cordell Avenue.  If you are thinking about trying Bethesda's newest restaurant today or tonight, here is the full menu (click to enlarge):

Alas, Funnel Fries did not make it onto the final menu!

BRICKSIDE FRONT "PORCH" VANISHES (PHOTOS)

Great Caesar's ghost!

Remember that front porch dining area, with city lights views, I thought we'd be enjoying when Brickside Food and Drink opened on Cordell Avenue?

It's gone!

Apparently, it was just a platform for construction purposes. And has simply vanished overnight.

BRICKSIDE FOOD AND DRINK INSTALLS SIGN (PHOTO)

The future Brickside Food and Drink restaurant, located on Cordell Avenue, has installed a permanent sign near the front staircase.  It appears to potentially have some form of illumination.

Coincidentally, later yesterday, the Washington Post's normally Bethesda-averse food critic Tom Sietsema posted a somewhat premature announcement of the restaurant on the Post's website.  While readers here have known about Brickside for months, one wonders what motivated Sietsema to get so amped about a Bethesda restaurant.  Particularly one not opening until December.  Maybe he's coming around, and realizing Bethesda does have 5-star restaurants.

Still putting my vote in for Funnel Fries on the Brickside menu.

BRICKSIDE FOOD AND DRINK - BETHESDA CONSTRUCTION UPDATE (PHOTOS)

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS!

Renovation of the future home of Brickside Food and Drink continues on Cordell Avenue.

The elevated porch dining area is coming
along nicely above the street

This is a new window in the front
of the restaurant

"COMING SOON" SIGNS GO UP AT BRICKSIDE FOOD AND DRINK

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS!

Renovation continues at the future location of Brickside Food and Drink on Cordell Avenue.  These signs were just put up on the front of the restaurant.

If anyone is listening, I'm casting another vote to have Funnel Cake Fries on the menu - Funnel Fries!  (The owner has them on the menu at his other restaurant).

BRICKSIDE FRONT PORCH DECK IS TAKING SHAPE ON CORDELL AVENUE

Big construction news from the future location of Brickside Food and Drink on Cordell Avenue:  the new Bethesda restaurant is building a front porch deck onto the building front.

Even in this primitive form, you can tell what a huge improvement this is.  It's creating a nice new outdoor dining space.

This already looks like a nice place to dine
outdoors, with city lights views

I'm still hoping the Funnel Fries make the menu there.

Streetfront decks are a rare find in downtown Bethesda

What do you think of this deck so far?

BRICKSIDE CLOSER TO OPENING ON CORDELL AVENUE

The former Bubby's Deli on Cordell Avenue is getting a makeover, and its new tenant - Brickside - is well on its way to opening.

A liquor license application is in the window, and the restaurant joins Smoke BBQ in generating curiosity and speculation regarding exactly what will be on the menus there.  I'm hoping the Funnel Fries - funnel cake presented as french fries - from the owner's other restaurant, Grand Central, make it onto the Brickside menu.

Both will open this fall, if all goes well.