The D.C.-based &pizza chain opens its newest location tomorrow (6/12) at Pike & Rose in North Bethesda — the fourth restaurant in Maryland and 13th overall for the rapidly expanding business, which got its start just three years ago on H Street in Washington. The concept is similar to Blaze at Westfield Montgomery Mall: Customers walk through a Chipotle-style assembly line and tell the staff exactly what to put on their oblong-shaped pies. “We use quality ingredients that you’re not likely to see on pizzas anywhere else — things like farm-fresh eggs, fig marsala and red pepper chili oil,” says &pizza exec Sam Blum. The Pike & Rose location will look much like the one in Gaithersburg, with communal wood tables and a black-and-white motif.
