General Store

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General Store

6 Post Office Rd.
Silver Spring/Takoma Park, MD 20910
Phone: 301-562-8787

Cuisines:
American, Southern, Breakfast

Opening Hours:

Wheelchair Accessible:
Yes

Nearby Metro Stops:
None nearby

Price Range:
Inexpensive

Dress:
Informal

Noise Level:
Chatty

Reservations:
Not needed

Special Features:
Weekend Brunch, Kid Friendly

Best Dishes
Fried chicken; collards; macaroni and cheese; Arborio-rice-and-gruyere casserole; Wagyu hot dog; beef chili; collards; lemon chess pie.

Price Details:
Dishes $4 to $16.

Reader's Rating:

2.8 out of 5

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Former Colorado Kitchen chef/owner Gillian Clark—and her terrific fried chicken—are back at the new General Store.

Ever since her tiny Colorado Kitchen closed, we’ve missed Gillian Clark’s comfort cooking. Good news: She and her terrific fried chicken are back in a bigger spot, the newly opened the General Store. The homey, cheerily painted place offers a streamlined menu that relies some on the fryer—that brittle-skinned chicken and a po’ boy stuffed with crispy shrimp—but also excels at sides. A bacony richness wafts from the collard greens, cornbread is sweet and moist, and mac and cheese has a nice bread-crumb crunch. As at Colorado Kitchen, Clark is doing the cooking, and she’ll now happily provide one service her old restaurant didn’t: takeout.

This appeared in the April, 2009 issue of the Washingtonian.

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Be warned abt. Sunday nights

gaynellec — May 31, 2009 3:56 PM

Our first visit to General Store occurred on a recent Sunday evening. We were more than a little surprised to find that the Sunday evening menu had exactly 1 choice (with 1 possible add-on) - sort of an "our way or the highway" approach to dining. More ...

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disappointing

lindenlnresident — May 7, 2009 10:23 AM

We were very excited here in the neighborhood when the General Store restaurant was about to open.
I gave it a few months and then decided to try it out.
In this time when everyone is watch every penny, we "used" our "eat out" budget on the General More ...

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Yummers!

btron — April 29, 2009 2:44 PM

The General Store is hard to find, but well worth the search. Fried chicken, mac-n.cheese (the yummerest), collard greens, chicken salad sandwich, the GS has it all. If you're looking for food that has no flavor or isn't well prepared, this isn't More ...

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