My-Le Resurrection
By Silver Springer • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Arts, Food and Entertainment, Business and Economic Development, Real Estate
A reader has pointed out that the Vietnamese cuisine serving My-Le Restaurant, located at 8077 Georgia Ave is getting a makeover and a new name. Apparently (according to the reader) the place was set on fire closing it down for a few.
Investigators have pinned this one down as arson but the resurrection of the restaurant could possibly be our first Asian themed Café because the original owners are back throwing out the My-Le insignia and now calling it Lotus Café. Add that this will be Café number 2,182,938 to have opened in downtown Silver Spring in the last five years.
On a side note, I think this section of downtown with Jackie’s etc and parts of Selim road heading towards the Burlington Ave bridge has the potential to be something truly special, IMO a 24 hour night scene of bars and clubs. Some (and I emphasize some) of the architecture looks worth saving and I’m sure a person with half a brain could convert one or two of those mechanic shops into a club the way Jackie’s did.
I will hold back the wrecking ball this time because I think it would look genuinely authentic, good enough to garner national attention and filming rights, perfect for all those crying for “Human scale†development. But I really think that if Silver Spring doesn’t get on the ball and cater to young adults with more 24 hour entertainment options than the revitalization just wont be as good as it could have been in ways you can’t imagine.
Now what to do about the cremation facility around the way…
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There will never be a good bar scene ANYWHERE in MoCo (Bethesda included) due to its nonsense liquor laws.
I agree with Silver Springer & Sligo. DTSS needs a good nightlife area, and the streets around Jackie’s would do it. They’re far enough away from the Metro to keep the brats away, but close enough for determined young adults (and happenin’ geezers) to get to.
But yeah, those double damned MoCo liquor laws are a curse upon us. What do bars have to do, make at least 50 percent of their income from food? Why can’t adults go to a bar that’s just a bar? The last I heard, alchol is still legal in this country.
The Montgomery County liquor laws have archaic qualities to them. I can’t buy beer and wine in grocery stores? Come on!
It would be cool if we had more drinking establishments in DTSS. I agree with SS that South Silver Spring is virgin territory for clubs and bars.
btw…What are the odds of a strip club opening in Silver Spring? I can’t believe MoCo refuses to give licenses to nudie bars.
We have so many uptight people with sticks up their asses in this county.
Bars I’d like to see in that part of Silver Spring:
– Motorcycle/leather bar
– Gay/lesbian bar
– Gay/lesbian country-western bar
– Country-western bar, the kind with chicken wire
– Leather bar
– Leather bar
– Bar
Oops, I forgot a few bars:
– Metal bar, something out of a Velvet Revolver or GNR video
– Nudie bar (why not?)
– S&M bar
– Bar
Don’t forget Swinger Bar. Of course the Metal Bar or S&M Bar could have “Swinger Night” if the demand wasn’t high enough
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What kind of music do you usually have here?
Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.
What does anyone here have against opening a Hip-Hop, Regggae, Go-Go, and Jazz Clubs????????????
Reggae bar would be cool. (Actually, that would have been great for the former My Le location, with the patio and all.)
[quote comment="4632"]What does anyone here have against opening a Hip-Hop, Regggae, Go-Go, and Jazz Clubs????????????[/quote]
Gallery Restaurant & Lounge is an HipHop/R&B oriented club and it’s doing just fine. NO INCIDENTS!!! Even saw the County Exec and Council there.
Hip Hop/R&B clubs are the only venues that are really successful anyways. Gallery tried some trance/house crap but that failed.
I’d love a jazz club. I’d also love a tiki bar that played Exotica and Polynesian folk music.
The Quarry House should have a Jazz night… in keeping with their “speakeasy” mythology.
The Quarry House should have chicken wire, just for kicks.
[quote comment="4618"]There will never be a good bar scene ANYWHERE in MoCo (Bethesda included) due to its nonsense liquor laws.[/quote]
Have you been to Norfolk Ave lately. The place is hopping with nightlife. The only other suburban nightspot that comes close to Bethesda is Clarendon.
I still think Clarendon is better. There is no place in Bethesda equivalent to Clarendon Ballroom.
Unrelated, but Clarendon also has a weekly (”Georgetown”) flea market. Why can’t we bring back the SS flea market???
And I just caught that last line about the crematorium… I did not know about that. Creepy.
The crematorium would make an EXCELLENT club!
The martinis are people… they’re PEOPLE!!!!
What’s wrong with having a crematorium there? It’s in the middle of a bunch of auto-repair shops, and crematoriums have to be located somewhere. Y’all are NIMBBYs (Not In My Bar’s Backyard).
Speaking of bars, how is Piratz doing there on Georgia? Anyone been in lately?
The area around Jackies is primed to be an authentic urban hipster location. Especially Selim road, which connects Jackie’s to the bridge at Philadelphia Avenue over the train tracks. Two stories, pre-war industrial, and looking on to the train tracks with the South Silver Spring skyline beyond… There are many a days I’ve imagined myself strolling along this post industrial landscape with the low setting sun streaming through all sort of bar/restaurant establishments with a soundtrack in the background of trains, planes and automobiles…