Sweeteria Dessert Café, a coffee & dessert café from the owners of neighboring Kao Thai Restaurant, has soft-opened in the former location of Your Whole Body at 8646 Colesville Road in downtown Silver Spring.
The Montgomery County Police Department has released surveillance video of a suspect in a downtown Silver Spring burglary and is asking for the public’s help to identify him. The incident occurred at about 7 p.m. on July 12 at the Dunkin’ at 8401 Colesville Rd.
Kefa Café will leave its location in the Silver Spring Library and open a café in the new Wheaton Library, while Bump ’n Grind will take over the Silver Spring spot. “We have been honored for the past five years to operate the coffee shop located on the grounds of the Silver Spring Library,” said Kefa’s co-owner Lene Tsegay in a statement, “and we are proud to have established a precedent for creating a welcoming and supportive community space for library customers.”
Editor’s note: This guest post and photo is from Jonna Huseman, who began the Voices project to document the lives of friends and neighbors in Silver Spring and Takoma Park and how they may have changed since the shelter in place order. It originally appeared on her blog, The Sligo Creek Photographer.
Residents of the Seven Oaks/Evanswood neighborhood this week crowd sourced a list of local restaurants still serving customers during the COVID-19 emergency. The Google Docs spreadsheet is online for reference and open to edits and additions from others, who have since expanded the original list.
Blood donors can get a free pound of Dunkin’ coffee today by donating a pint of blood at the Montgomery County Red Cross Chapter House, 2020 East-West Highway, according to a press release.
PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans is now open at its 8621 Georgia Ave. location in the ground floor of Core Apartments.
The first of five PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans locations planned for the metropolitan area is scheduled to open this month on the ground level of The Core apartments at 8621 Georgia Ave.
The Bump ’n Grind coffee and pastry kiosk in Ellsworth Place has closed, according to owner David Fogel.