Coming to Mosaic: chocolate and boxing
A Neuhaus luxury chocolate shop is coming to the Mosaic District in Merrifield. It will be in the space formerly occupied by Artisan Confections on Strawberry Lane.
Neuhaus, a Belgian company, has more than 1,500 stores worldwide, mostly in Europe. There are Neuhaus shops in Bethesda and Union Station in D.C.
A fast-casual Indian restaurant called Rasa recently opened next to Target on Strawberry Lane. Rasa specializes in bowls, where diners can select a base (several kinds of rice or greens), a main (such as lamb kebab, chicken tikka, or sweet potato tikki), veggies, toppings, and chutney. Rasa also offers cocktails, beer, and wine.
Bash, a boxing fitness studio, is coming to the space on Yates Way formerly occupied by Zenga Cycle. This will be the third Bash location; the others are in Ballston and Rosslyn.
A One Medical health clinic is coming to Merrifield Center Drive. One Medical offers primary care doctors in collaboration with MedStar Health. One Medical has offices around the country, including one each in Tysons, Chevy Chase, and Bethesda, and six in D.C.
In other recent developments at Mosaic, Jinya Ramen Bar relocated a few doors down on Strawberry Lane; another restaurant is going into the former Jinya space.
House of Loolous, a children’s boutique, opened across District Avenue from the Lou Lou accessories store and near Lululemon also on District Avenue. Pressed, a juice bar on District Avenue, is in the spot formerly held by the Puree juice bar.
Pupatella, the popular pizza chain, opened a couple of months ago on District Avenue, giving Oath Pizza some real competition.
Ovme, a skin-care retailer offering Botox and other procedures, is now open on District Avenue. The Vivid Chill popup has closed, leaving space for another retailer.
Skateland, the roller skating popup, has relocated from Strawberry Park to Merrifield Town Center Drive.
Mosaic is offering free yoga in front of the Angelika movie theater every Tuesday, 6-7 p.m., through the end of September.
There are just three movies left this summer in Mosaic’s free outdoor film series: “Encanto” on Aug. 11, “Under the Stadium Lights” on Aug. 18, and “The Fast & Furious Saga” on Aug. 25. The movies start at 7 p.m. in Strawberry Park.
There’s a farmers market before the films, 3-7 p.m., in Strawberry Park. The Sunday farmers market on District Avenue is open all year. The hours are 9 a.m.-2 p.m. through December.
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These are the correct “mainstream” restaurants and experiences that must come to Landmark Plaza area…..instead we have Penny Gross who only looks for ethnic stores, and ones that congregate in an area together and this is not reality. Please stop placating to your voter base Penny and modernize the Landmark Plaza area, to include the traffic pattern which is a shi** show!
Supervisor Gross does not own Landmark Plaza. She did, however, recently lead a significant rezoning and reimagining of the entire downtown Lincolnia area to provide very strong incentives for redevelopment of the area.
Is it not Penny Gross’s job to placate her voting base? Considering she is an elected official?
Landmark cannot be fixed, because of the people that already live there. I avoid the entire area because it’s never a pleasant experience: Traffic, unsafe drivers, panhandlers, jaywalkers, girls and women wearing next to nothing in stores, weed smoke wafting around everywhere, men checking out my wife. I won’t even bring Hobby Lobby any more. And then there was the multiple robbery and shooting (murder?) just the other day. A friend’s kid and his new wife came to the area to look for a townhome. They looked in the landmark area. I told them they may as well move to Detroit. They took the area off their list.
I’ve been to Landmark Plaza recently (to get cracked at Joint Chiro). About five years ago I was a regular at the big Chinese buffet that has since closed. On my recent visit, it looked like some new stores were opening up. I had lunch at one of them, next to Joint. I didn’t feel unsafe at the other end of the plaze, either; went into a couple of discount shops. There’s some new fast food rotated into the the triangle across Beuregard, too.
The plaza’s got it’s share of fast/casual national chains in addition to the ethnic entrepreneurs.
This is mainly a low-rent residential area, and it will never be Mosaic. (Even in 7 years from now, after the Landmark Mall Hospital and Condo comes in, I wonder what might happen over here down the road.)
Maybe there is a crime spike, like there seems to be in every ethnic neighborhood this year.
Anyway, over the decades I’ve seen the plaza looking a lot worse.
Funny enough the lady at the joint told me the landlord wants to renovate the plaza with new facades and bring in more upscale tenants
The owners also want a pony…
Holy pugilistic pralines, Batman!
I guess this Raga is not related to the one in Bailey’s Crossroads? (I like that one.)
Ohhh “RaSa” not “Raga”….
Yay! Neuhaus is amazing chocolate.