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Rockville is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland

[edit] Get in

Rockville is accessible on Metro's red line (see stations below). It is also served by Montgomery County's Ride On Bus service, particularly buses number 26, 45 and 47, which run all over town.

You can get into Rockville directly from the Chinatown buses that come from New York. Apex Bus [1] or Today's Bus [2] typically charge $25 for one-way and $40 for round trip from New York.

[edit] Get around

Rockville is serviced by three metro stops on Washington Metro's Red Line: White Flint station, Twin brook station and Rockville station. White Flint station is near by White Flint Mall, a very attractive and upscale shopping venue. Twinbrook station will take you right outside of Hilton hotel and tons of other restaurants. Rockville station will take you smack into downtown Rockville, with the newly-developed center and giant Regal Cinema.

[edit][add listing] See

Rockville Town Center features some historic buildings and a nearby cemetery offers the grave of F. Scott Fitzgerald for all to see.

[edit][add listing] Do

Other than shopping and eating there isn't much to do in Rockville for a night owl.

One can always stay up late and cycle down the empty major throughfares that are so busy during the day. This will feel both refreshing and engaging as you will yell 'hola' and 'que paso, que paso' to the El Salvadorians coming back from their nightly restaurant shifts as they're walking or cycling slowly down the sidewalks.

In terms of outdoors recreations there are many little parks hidden inside neighborhoods and bike trails. There is the Rockville Millennium Trail, which is smoothly paved and very user friendly, spanning the City of Rockville in a 10-mile loop. There is Dogwood Park, located off of Wooton Parkway, offering tennis courts, baseball fields and other recreational facilities. There is also the downtown Rockville area, very recently developed, featured shops and restaurants and some cute little fountains where you can sit and people watch. Very upscale, not very adventurous if you're looking to do more than eat and drink.

[edit][add listing] Buy

White Flint Mall has lots of art stores to visit. Anthropologie, a women's clothing store, is a unique place, and is located at the intersection of Nicholson Lane and Rockville Pike. One of the best thrift shops in the area is the Goodwill on Boiling Brook Parkway (off of Nicholson Lane), by the Kosher Mart.

Asadur's Market featuring Arabic, Persian, and Mediterranean foods and is located on Nicholson Lane in in the shopping center right before the train tracks.

Russian Gourmet is located right before the Rockville Pike intersection of Nicholson Lane; Russian food and cultural products.

Congressional Shopping Center has lots of privately-owned clothing, baby and jewelry stores.

[edit][add listing] Eat

Every chain restaurant ever can be found in Rockville, other than maybe In-and-Out Burger. In addition to the big name restaurants there are plenty of cute privately owned family restaurants.

• Mikonos, Greek. Full service and a bit more expensive than fast food. (near Congressional Shopping Center, Rockville Pike)
  
• The Lemon Tree, Israeli and Mediterranean. Very trendy and reasonably priced. (Congressional Shopping Center, Rockville Pike)
  
• Crisp and Juicy, Latino. Very cheap and extremely good. (Sunshine Shopping Center, Rockville Pike)
  
• Rockland's Barbecue, American. Cheap and delicious (Wintergreen Plaza)
• Urban BBQ, American. Cheap, very meaty, local favorite. (Chapman Avenue and Twinbrook Road)
• Tara Thai, Thai. Moderately priced, very popular in the area (Montrose Crossing Shopping Center)
• La Tasca. Spanish, moderately priced, center of town square.
• Austin Grill. Tex mex, okay price, good size servings.

[edit][add listing] Drink

The best place to drink in Rockville is Clyde's, with half price wine and seafood on Monday nights (off of Wooton Parkway). Other good places are Orange Billiards (Rockville Pike) and various new places only newly opened in Rockville Town Square.

Another great place to drink is Hank Dietle's Tavern, located on the right hand side after you pass White Flint Mall on Rockville Pike going south toward D.C . It is so old that its liquor license is numbered '1', as it was the first issued when the prohibition was repealed in the thirties. It serves cheap pitcher/mug brew and does not serve food other than potato chips. There are always interesting, friendly people to talk to and it is the last thing from a pretentious/ intimidating atmosphere. The real estate agents will say its located in 'North Bethesda' but that's baloney since its technically still Rockville.

There aren't any clubs in Rockville. You drive to the bar or restaurant, you enjoy yourself at exorbitant prices, you drive home. If you'd like to find some better nightspots look further down the Metro red line, such as the Dupont or Adams Morgan stations.

In Rockville town square there a many great restaurants and with the new kid fountain in the center of the town it is a great place to take the little one on a hot day. La Tasca is a spanish restaurant with little appetizer size dishes everyone loves. Austin grill is a tex-mex place with large servings and great atmosphere.

[edit][add listing] Sleep

• Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike (Next to Twinbrook Metro), ☎ 1-301-468-1100 (fax: 1-301-468-0308), [3]. checkin: 4PM; checkout: noon.  edit
• Ramada Washington DC-Rockville, 1775 Rockville Pike, +1 301-881-2300, [4].
• Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road (Next to White Flint Metro), ☎ 1-301-822-9200 (fax: 1-301-822-9201), [5]. In case you hadn't figured it out, "Bethesda North" means "Rockville".  edit
• Best Western Washington Gateway Hotel - Rockville, MD, 1251 West Montgomery Avenue, ☎ 301-424-4940 (fax: 301-294-6024), [6].  edit

[edit] Get out

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