Dad's Neighborhood Pub
From Aspen Hill, Maryland, USA
Dad's Neighborhood Pub
5532 Norbeck Road Rockville, MD 20853 Rock Creek Village Shopping Center 301 460 0066
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Menu
Please see the website for details and current menu.
I personally will attest that the spicy wings are excellent, as are some of the sandwiches (I haven't tried all of them, the ones I had were quite good). Thardman 18:32, 24 May 2009 (EDT)
Amenities
Dad's is a full-service establishment.
Amenities include a walk-up bar, food and beverage service at table, a fairly small stage and a dance floor suitable for perhaps 20 people. Also present are two decent pool tables, a small pinball/video arcade, and jukebox.
Capacity is about 180 persons, very suitable for everything from business luncheons and presentations up to small school reunions.
Live bands are booked and the quality is good all around.
Performers
Bands have included (but are not limited to:
- Johnny and the Headhunters. Excellent blues and blues-roots rock. I stongly recommend seeing this band to anyone who likes Stevie Ray Vaughn, or any of the old Stratocaster blues greats.
- Platform Soul. 70s Revival. Very good.
- Static. Lots of Led Zeppelin, Guns 'n' Roses, very good, pretty loud.
- Soul Gravity. Really good, pretty eclectic, everything from James Brown through Johnny Cash, from The Beatles to Prince. Extremely "danceable" all around.
Problems
Although this place opened as a luncheon restaurant with attempts at family-friendliness, as of mid-June 2009 it seems to be rapidly turning into yet-another of the sort of bars that caused Montgomery County to enact a near-total ban on restaurants serving alcoholic beverages and offering live music. Recent changes in operating hours have assured that this can't be a lunch-spot restaurant, meaning that it will be difficult indeed to have more than half of the receipts be for food rather than alcohol.
It's possible that the place can be preserved and developed into the sort of place where responsible adults would bring their teenagers to teach them how to behave as adults amongst well-behaved adults.
The majority of the customers encountered are good people and are mostly interested in having a good time and seeing a band or playing pool, maybe doing some dancing and having some food and drink.
Other reviewers have given the place good ratings with the codocil that they'd recommend it to anyone, if only the management would kick out the guy at the pool table who was using language not acceptable among adults, much less in the presence of children. But it seems that the guy with the foul language is the guy spending enough to keep the place in business. So it seems that it is to he and his fellows that management caters. As for me, I'm done with it, at least for now.
History
Opened in 2009, replacing Pegaso Restaurant. This is more a change of name and a refurbishing than anything else.
Closing date not certain, but less-than-favorable reviews on Yelp report a decline in service and as of late 2010, the place is definitely shuttered.
