BALTIMORE
Java Joe's
222 North Charles Street (410) 727-4007
(at Baltimore Street, in Charles Plaza)
Wide range of coffees, sandwiches and pastries.
Weekdays 7am-5pm
Thanks Cathy!
Metropolitan Coffeehouse & Wine Bar
902 South Charles Street (Federal Hill) 410-234-0235
One of Federal Hill's only smokefree places; great reasonably priced food (breakfast, lunch and dinner, 7 days); great wine list; interesting beers
Overlea Diner
6652 Belair Road (410) 254-8356
Mon-Sat 6am-9pm / Sun 7am-8pm
The Sly Fox Pub Federal Hill
554 E Fort Avenue 410-637-3699
Bar/restaurant. Totally smoke free! The grub here is GREAT - and smelling food instead of smoke is a real pleasure.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Currently, smoking is only allowed at the bar; so if a restaurant has no bar,
there is supposed to be no smoking. This appears to be widely enforced.
In March 1999 the County Council banned smoking completely in all bars and restaurants by 2002.
Meanwhile, restaurants *with* bars may or may not permit smoking.
Places listed here were added before this was known, or else have bars but are still smokefree.
Update: In June 2000, a judge ruled that the County Council
overstepped its authority when it passed the ban.
An appeal is expected. The suit was brought by a group of Montgomery County restaurant owners
and by the city of Gaithersburg.
Half of the 1400 restaurants in the County ban smoking; more than can be listed here,
but they deserve your support! If you're dining and smoke starts wafting towards you,
a friendlier place is probably right next door.
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BETHESDA
Cafe Bethesda
5027 Wilson Lane, (301) 657-3383
Upscale. Like Bethesda.
Cesco Trattoria
4871 Cordell Avenue (301) 654-8333
Italian cuisine.
Faryab
4917 Cordell Avenue (301) 951-3484
Afghan restaurant.
Matuba
4918 Cordell Avenue (301) 652-7449
Japanese restaurant, family friendly.
Persimmon
7003 Wisconsin Avenue (301) 654-9860
'American' menu.
Red Tomato
4910 Saint Elmo Avenue (301) 652-4499
Very attractive, classy little restaurant and wine bar
- located next to a cigar store but smokefree.
Beautiful red tile interior. Pizza and salad.
Another branch is located in
Washington, D.C. at
2030 M Street
(202) 463-9030.
Thyme Square
4735 Bethesda Avenue, (301) 657-9077
Vegetarian, sort of (is that like being sort of pregnant?).
Good food.
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ROCKVILLE
Addie's
11120 Rockville Pike (301) 881-0081
American comfort food :-)
Mosaic Cuisine and Cafe
186 Halpine Rd (301) 468-0682
Features ecletic cuisine, including our famous waffle sandwiches. Mosaic is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, 7 days a week. Based on French cuisine with many accents from around the world, Mosaic serves a unique menu in a cafˇ-style atmosphere. Mosaic is owned and operated by Thierry Jugnet. Mosaic also offers catering. Throughout the menu, look for various cuisines from around the world, such as waffle French toast from Belgium, tomato and pesto soup from Palermo, Italy, hot crab and spinach dip from the USA, and peanut butter pie direct from heaven.
Orange Ball Billiards
430 Hungerford Drive (301) 309-6440 (walk from Rockville Metro)
Smokefree billiards! TWENTY NINE Hi-Tech - PROFESSIONAL TOURNAMENT Gold Crown IV 860 SIMONIS CLOTH Pool Tables!
Restaurant, bar, dance club.
44 Flat Screen TV's , 6 big screen TV's and 3 huge projection screen TV's
New Dance Floor!
Dart Boards , Golden Tee
Incredible full menu and great selection of beers
Tons of Free Parking
Can host big parties.
Thanks Ted Harris!
Vegetable Garden
11618 Rockville Pike (301) 468-9301
A reviewer says:
I like it a lot. They have a menu with photographs of
the food, so you can order from the pictures. It's the kind of vegetarian restaurant where a lot of dishes are "faux" - fake chicken, fake meat, that kind of thing, based on soy products and some kind of wheat product, I forget the name, that can be made to mimic animal
protein. I suppose I like the restaurant because the dish I always order tastes like curry and has lots of cut up potatoes. Service is good, and it has a cozy feeling.
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WHEATON
Hollywood East
2312 Price Avenue (301) 942-8282
Chinese (Cantonese) restaurant
Malaysian Satay House
2666 University Blvd. West (301) 946-3232
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SILVER SPRING
The Continental Kettle
2259 Bel Pre Road (301) 598-1736
has decided (effective November 1999) to discontinue its practice of allowing
customers to smoke at the bar. There will still be a service bar, but no
smoking will be allowed anywhere in the restaurant. This is in response to
customer complaints about smoke in the air.
Their food is good and their customers are serious eaters, so everyone's
comfort level should improve.
They make everything from Veal Florentine to Beef Burgundy to shish
kebob - it's a continental menu - and people who have eaten there describe
the food as excellent.
Tijuana's Mexican Cafe
8221 Georgia Avenue (301) 562-9336
Pleasant, reasonably priced Mexican restaurant and bar.
They will stick smokers in a room in back if requested,
but looked doubtful when the topic came up. :-)
Tijuana's is across the street from
Champion Billiards
8216 Georgia Avenue (301) 587-4736
Two large rooms, smoking and nonsmoking,
separated by nothing more than a popcorn machine in a small
intermediate section, & you must walk
through the smoking room to get to the nonsmoking room. Yet there is
a front door from which the nonsmoking room could be reached.
Maybe if enough people crowd into the smokefree section, it would send a message...
10:30 am - 2 am Monday - Thursday
Friday 1am - 4 am Sat/Sun 10am - 4am
(some people are serious about their billiards).
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OTHER RESOURCES
SmokeFree Maryland offers information
about smoking regulations and a bulletin board in which people discuss
problems related to smoking, such as smoke from neighbors and in the workplace.
The Dancers Corner
A list of shag, swing, lindy, Cajun, disco and other social dance opportunities
in the DC Metro area (DC, Maryland, N. Virginia). The smokefree venues are noted.
DC Dance Net
Another dance site - reviews mention whether an event is smokefree, and a number of them are. Caters to the DC metro area as well as reaching up and down the east coast.
Potomac River Jazz Club
For fans of 'trad' jazz and swing. They often have nice outdoor concerts.
Friendly to non-smokers.
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