Just a quick Thursday (14 July) update of this and that…
One of the "unknown buildings" at shady mile and Rte. 235 is
the “relocated” Pearl Vision, which will be/was razed and moved over to the other
side of three notch road just south of the Barrel of Crackers. Don’t know
what the second building (behind it). At
least it isn’t a quick service chain.
One of the things I should do more often is to check the
agenda of the St. Mary's County Alcohol Beverage Board which meets monthly. I am pretty sure the meetings are open to the
public, so I should probably attend one.
Could be illuminating. Stuff on
the agenda for today’s (7/14) session:
Transfer of Kevin’s
Corner Kafe license from the “old” location to the “new” one in the
Willows. Time will tell if this is a
good move. Bold move.
Transfer of “old” Café
Des Artistes liquor license to La
Rive Breton and Mr. Brian Wilson. Word
was that this was the last delay in opening, and so I would look for the place
to open very soon.
Leonardtown Cigars
which is down in the Shopping Center at Compton Road and rte 5, applies for a
liquor license. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em,
and have a drink. Maybe Port or Cognac.
A new one: Urban Bar-B-Que will apparently be
opening in the new/old Winegardner “used car” building, next to the (currently)
flagged Dunkin Donut’s close to 235/Hollywood Leonardtown Road. They’re getting a liquor license. When I first saw this, I thought “well, at
least it isn’t a chain and might be local”.
Well guess what? (Link) it IS a chain. which touts itself as; “Urban Bar-B-Que is Handcrafted, Authentic,
Slow Smoked Bar-B-Que. Our dedication and Hard Work honor the different styles
of Bar-B-Que found throughout the United States under one roof. We are the Real
Deal” or at least the real deal in one of the 13 locations in the mid Atlantic
currently listed (Leonardtown, MD: COMING
SOON!) Waldorfization moving to
Leonardtown. Sigh, what’s next.
And an addendum, thanks to an eagle eyed reader, who noted “Since
1982” on the “Steak in a Sack”
sign. Phone suffers from enhanced
enlargement, but there it is (just below the "a SACK" part):
Hmmm, I thought. A bit
of sleuthing revealed that there used to be one on Branch Avenue/Route 5 north
of the beltway in the Marlow Heights Shopping Center. It WAS definatly local:
“One of Marlow Heights' long-time institutions, the
Steak in a Sack, located in the Marlow Heights Shopping Center, caught fire on
February 19, hours after the restaurant had closed for the day. The restaurant,
open and owned since 1962 by the ###### family, sustained significant fire
damage, as well as collateral damage from fire rescue efforts.” So it appears that
the place does have a history, and will be re-opening in Charlotte Hall. A little bit of further checking looks like
they have sort of a Cheese Steak product.
Be worth while checking them out.
And in the course of poking around about SIAS, as usual you
find yourself miles away from your original intent, and I wound up in UTUBE and
a little piece about cheese steaks, comparing the commonly thought of paragon
of Philly Cheese Steaks, Pat’s and Geno’s.
(with my apologies to BEB who says neither are the best). Maybe worth a look see for entertainment purposes.
DFD
1 comment:
I grew up in Marlow Heights eating and working at Steak in a Sack. They were putting food in pita bread LONG before it was fashionable to do so. I can't wait for them to reopen - the Kalid family has been in Maryland for a long time.
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