New tenant moving into the long-empty Brio space off Rockville Pike: Lao Sze Chuan, a Chicago-based restaurant offering Americanized Szechuan fare. Bethesda Magazine reports that the eatery will open this summer at NoBe Market, home of Whole Foods and Seasons 52. The menu will be full of familiar dishes like Kung Pao scallops, Mongolian beef, moo shu shrimp, sweet and sour prawns, pan-fried noodles and the like. Lao Sze Chuan will be a direct competitor to China Garden, which opened just around the corner in 2019.
