If you like Ray's Hell Burger, you should try Ray's The Classics in Silver Spring next time--the art of the steak. The mashed potatoes are to die for, and my mother's favorite dessert is the root beer float.
If York Castle in Rockville is a spinoff of the one on Georgia Avenue, then it was started in the '80s by former employees of Gifford's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford%27s_Ice_Cream_%26_Candy_Co.), who kept the Silver Spring parlor (and it was a parlor) afloat as long as they could when Gifford's was failing. We used to go there for special occasions; truly spectacular ones warranted the Big Top, which was cake and jam topped by many scoops of ice cream and the usual trimmings, and little chipped pitchers of hot fudge sauce to pour on. A family of four could not finish one, though we tried.
York Castle went in a different direction, but the ice cream is just as good. I always favored coconut.
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If York Castle in Rockville is a spinoff of the one on Georgia Avenue, then it was started in the '80s by former employees of Gifford's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford%27s_Ice_Cream_%26_Candy_Co.), who kept the Silver Spring parlor (and it was a parlor) afloat as long as they could when Gifford's was failing. We used to go there for special occasions; truly spectacular ones warranted the Big Top, which was cake and jam topped by many scoops of ice cream and the usual trimmings, and little chipped pitchers of hot fudge sauce to pour on. A family of four could not finish one, though we tried.
York Castle went in a different direction, but the ice cream is just as good. I always favored coconut.