{"id":40388,"date":"2026-10-15T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/40388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:21:09","slug":"scuttlebutt-confirmed-the-big-greek-cafe-coming-to-former-maman-joon-space-in-tenleytown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/40388\/","title":{"rendered":"Scuttlebutt Confirmed: The Big Greek Cafe coming to former Maman Joon space in Tenleytown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tTenleytown\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPublished October 15, 2026 at 9:15AM\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_6187.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/> 4531 Wisconsin Ave, NW previously home to a Maman Joon and a Beefsteak and a Radio Shack before them, if you can believe that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Maman Joon closed here back in February. In June I shared with our Patreon community that Big Greek Cafe would be taking over the space. Scuttlebutt confirmed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_6188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Big Greek Cafe with 51 seats\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out their menu here and STAY TUNED for an opening date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt The Big Greek Cafe we believe that relationships, family, and community are built around sharing delicious meals. This is what our mother taught us is the most important in life. Since 2009, we have put our belief into practice by crafting traditionally-inspired Greek dishes, made of the best ingredients we can source and offered at reasonable prices. Our expert food team specializes in the kind of Greek cuisine that will leave your taste buds dancing like \u2018Zorba the Greek.\u2019 The Big Greek Cafe offers a fun and casual environment: the perfect place to build relationships, and share a meal with friends and family. We hope to see you soon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note: We broke this news to our Patreon supporters back in July. If you want to learn of these things soonest join our community of Patreon supporters and get access to our PoPville plus + posts where you will learn the earliest scoop on these things \u2013 plus you\u2019ll help ensure PoPville survives for another 10 years!! Please join us if you are able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenleytown Published October 15, 2026 at 9:15AM 4531 Wisconsin Ave, NW previously home to a Maman Joon and a Beefsteak and a Radio Shack before them, if you can believe that\u2026 The Maman Joon closed here back in February. In June I shared with our Patreon community that Big Greek Cafe would be taking over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[586,587,584,585],"class_list":["post-40388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greek-tavernas","tag-greek-restaurant","tag-greek-restaurants","tag-greek-taverna","tag-greek-tavernas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dnc\/117445369859798574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}