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Details
Starbucks Coffee, East-West Highway and Colesville Road,
Silver Spring, (301) 563-6850
Einstein Brothers Bagels, East-West Highway and
Colesville Road, Silver Spring, (301) 587-2136
Oriental East, 1290 East-West Hwy., Silver Spring, (301)
608-0030
Rosita, 8649 16th St., Silver Spring, (301) 588-9063
Parkway Deli & Restaurant, 8317 Grubb Rd., Silver
Spring, (301) 587-1427
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By
Theodore Fischer, Washington Sidewalk
For
a post-viewing warm-up drink or nourishment, you'll have to exit the
bishop's strictly residential neighborhood. You won't have to go too far,
but you will have to cross one state line and a few cultural
transformations.
Closest to the Bishop's House (only geographically) is the almost-new Starbucks
next to the Silver Spring Metro station. If you need more than
high-test coffee concoctions and bakery goods to warm your cockles, Einstein
Brothers Bagels next door serves sandwiches and other hearty fare.
Cater-cornered to the Giant grocery store off Colesville Road, Oriental
East does dim sum respectable enough for members of the local Chinese
community plus signature dishes like Sichuan shrimp and Chinese broccoli.
Rosita, in a strip mall up 16th Street, is a clean, dependable and
as-yet undiscovered Mexican-Salvadoran restaurant whose menu includes
burgers 'n' fries with Latin flair.
The most appealing
nearby restaurant and the furthest thing from Christmas is the Parkway
Deli & Restaurant, about a half-mile (as the reindeer fly) due
west. Parkway matches fragrantly authentic New York deli fare corned
beef and pastrami, blintzes and the acclaimed matzo-ball soup with a
New York noise level, schmoozing waitresses and tables crammed tight
enough to allow eavesdropping on conversations more riveting than your
own. (Parkway acknowledges the New York connection with photographs of
Manhattan food shrines like the Carnegie Deli, Zabar's and Ratner's.) This
family-friendly place also doles out coffee specialty drinks, ice cream in
all its glorious forms and deadly coffeeice cream combinations. If
lines are fierce, tell 'em the bishop sent you. It can't hurt.
See
also: The bishop's house
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