Jackie Greenbaum was fairly nervous last year as she launched a search to replace Sam Adkins, the only chef she had ever employed at the Silver Spring restaurant that bares her name.  Adkins had been at Jackie's for more than five years, and the owner figured she had better find a strong kitchen manager to [...]

If the history behind Velatis isn't always sweet — packed as it is with feuds, bankruptcy, and a long absence from the D.C. area — then Darrow Montgomery's pictures of the candy shop are. The legendary caramel maker, the one that contented thousands of kids after their parents dragged them downtown for those insufferable shopping trips, has [...]

It came a month later than expected, but Goldberg's New York Bagels finally opened its second location in Silver Spring, much to the dismay of a certain kosher bagel man in Baltimore operating under the same name. Dan Keleman, owner of the Silver Spring shop and its parent in Rockville, says that Montgomery County slowed [...]

The Goldberg's New York Bagels set to open in Silver Spring is not the same Goldberg's New York Bagels that wins all the awards in Baltimore. Well, it kinda is — and kinda isn't. Allow me to explain. The Goldberg's in Baltimore — you know, the one that's won best bagel in Charm City numerous [...]

Near the bottom of the menu that hovers over the cash register at Toan, there's a small-but-telling sentence. It states that the Silver Spring noodle house does not use MSG in its soups. To say I was startled would be an understatement. "You really don't use MSG?" I asked the young man behind the counter. When he said [...]

Forget hamburgers for a moment. Here's a beef dish you can believe in, even at a place like Lotus Cafe, which casts a wider net than your average tuna fisherman. Seriously, a Vietnamese restaurant that serves calamari fries, coconut shrimp, and a Sex on the Beach cocktail?  Is this place channeling Saigon or Cancun?

The owners of Urban Bar-B-Que plan to open a third location of their small smokehouse chain in the former Willoughby's Market in Sandy Spring, pitmaster David Calkins told Y&H over the weekend. The lease has been signed, and since the space won't require a massive build-out for the restaurant, Calkins expects to open the latest Urban within [...]

For reasons that I can't fully explain, I ordered the muffaletta at Nicaro, which recently reopened under chef Luis Martinez, who has tons of experience opening and running restaurants of all sizes, from Cubano's in Silver Spring to Cheesecake Factories here and in California. I think I was feeling nostalgic for New Orleans after reading Martinez's [...]

Each day, for the next few weeks, we'll run through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year's Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day's featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you're planning to visit for the first time, tell us how your meal went when [...]

Tastee Diner 8601 Cameron St., Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 589-8171 The scrambled eggs are not fluffy; more than anything, they look like flat, ragged pieces of torn cloth as they lie there limply on the plate. The butter for the hot stack is the whipped, salted variety—from tiny plastic containers. And the stale, thin [...]