La Madeleine has said
au revoir to downtown Silver Spring. The country French cafe has closed its doors permanently at 8435 Georgia Avenue. They still have locations in downtown Bethesda, and in North Bethesda at Pike & Rose, but this leaves a major hole for Francophiles like myself in downtown Silver Spring. Your best and closest bets at this point are Fenton Cafe, and La Ferme on Brookville Road.
Huh, kinda surprising as it seemed to do decent business. SS was a trial location for their new casual/modern concept, so maybe they decided to scrap the idea.
ReplyDeleteHopefully something moves in relatively soon - sucks that they closed right when their nice outdoor space became usable for the year!
FYI if you haven't seen, Robert, across the street from this (old Office Depot space) there are permits up and Peterson Co. lists the space as "coming soon." No idea what's going in, but figured you'd have a better shot at figuring it out. It's a ~11K sqft space, so it'll hopefully be something decently interesting/important.
ReplyDeleteMaybe another uninspired mattress direct store or a temporary Halloween store. Silver spring, losing its soul to lowest common denominator developer logic.
ReplyDeleteWhy/how would a mattress store afford Peterson Co. rents? You realize DTSS has added exactly 1 mattress store in 30 years, right? If you don't think retail offerings are more interesting than 10, 20, 30 years ago then you haven't been living here very long.
DeleteWhy!!!!??? I don't understand this! There was always people in there! Now i have to go to bethesda??? Ugh!
ReplyDeleteLina's Diner, opening soon on Georgia Avenue, will serve French bistro cuisine.
DeleteI don't think they did well nor fully recovered from
Delete4th Qtr 2016. They changed their holiday menu for the first time in years and the SS store received poor response.
The SS Store never had the same revenue / business as Bethesda.
I love LaMadeline and grew up going to the Bethesda location and was thrilled to finally have a SS location so close to home but it chronically came up lacking in comparison to Bethesda's location.
That aside, great cup of coffee, great cafe environment and wonderful people....they will be missed
I love La Madeleine too - and miss the Silver Spring location. I do think the menu changes (holiday and regular) have really hurt them though as well as the new concept compared to the old. They have just closed Rockville now too - and I hope that Bethesda isn't next.
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