Dave & Buster’s Planning November Opening in Silver Spring

Company expects to hire 260 employees to staff restaurant and arcade

By Andrew Metcalf

The Dave & Buster's arcade previously inside the now-demolished White Flint Mall Andrew Metcalf, file photo

Good news for video game and arcade lovers—Dave & Buster’s will soon return to Montgomery County.

The company announced Thursday it plans to open its new location at Ellsworth Place in downtown Silver Spring in late November…

Dave & Buster’s will occupy a fifth-floor, 40,000-square-foot space at the indoor shopping center that lines Fenton Street and Ellsworth Drive. It’s filling the former space of an AMC Movie Theater.

The arcade will feature more than 165 games including Ghostbusters, Star Trek and Star Wars Battle Pod. The bar plans to serve craft beers and a cocktail menu with drinks that include “adult snow cones” and “the original CoronaRita”—a bottle of beer upside-down inside a frozen margarita.

The restaurant will offer an American bar food menu with items such as burgers, wings, grilled cheese sticks and sirloin steaks. It also will have a display of massive HD TVs on which it plans to screen Washington Redskins, Nationals and Capitals games.

Dave & Buster’s plans to hire 260 employees as part of the pre-opening process. Positions include game technicians, waiters, bartenders, cooks and managers. The company has a website for prospective employees and is also opening a hiring site Oct. 19 at the Hampton Inn, 8728 Colesville Road, Silver Spring.

In May 2015, Petrie Richardson Ventures, the developer of Ellsworth Place, revealed plans to bring Dave & Buster’s to the location. The new location will replace Dave & Buster’s longtime previous location in Montgomery County at the White Flint Mall in North Bethesda, which closed in 2014 before it was demolished.

The restaurant and arcade has been a key piece of the major redevelopment of Ellsworth Place, formerly known as City Place Mall, by Petrie Richardson Ventures, which included a $45 million facelift and a bevy of new tenants including T.J. Maxx, Michaels and Ross.