Black’s Bar & Kitchen

What Black’s Bar & Kitchen does

Black's Bar & Kitchen is a single-location upscale-casual full-service restaurant located at 7750 Woodmont Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland. The restaurant operates under the ownership of Jeff and Barbara Black as part of Black Restaurant Group, LLC, a privately held hospitality company that owns and operates six restaurant concepts across the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including BlackSalt Restaurant, Black Market Bistro, Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, Black Jack, TILT, and Black Coffee. Black's Bar & Kitchen serves local Bethesda and greater Maryland/DC metro diners seeking upscale-casual dining, social gatherings, happy hour, private events, and catering, with a stated customer base of local residents and event bookers.

The restaurant's core product is its food and beverage program, with an innovative menu featuring organic meats and game sourced from Virginia's Northern Neck and Southern Maryland's agricultural development coalition, complemented by regional flavors. The product portfolio includes a lunch menu ($12-$36), dinner menu ($13-$65), bar menu, happy hour menu (Mon-Fri 3-6pm), and dessert menu. The wine program is the signature differentiator: over 300 labels displayed in a state-of-the-art temperature-controlled wine room, recognized by Wine Spectator Magazine's Award of Excellence. The restaurant operates approximately 55-65 hours per week (closed Sundays), with dine-in service, patio seating, and a bar area.

The business model is transaction-based, generating revenue through per-item pricing at point of sale on dine-in meals, bar sales, and alcoholic beverages. A 4% card processing surcharge is applied to non-cash transactions. Additional revenue channels include gift cards (redeemable across all six Black Restaurant Group locations, available via digital instant delivery or in-store) and catering orders routed through the EZ Cater third-party marketplace. Marketing is conducted through the company website, Facebook, Twitter, email newsletter, and the parent group's centralized digital infrastructure. The restaurant is privately held with no venture capital or private equity backing disclosed.

Name

Black’s Bar & Kitchen

Legal name

Black Restaurant Group, LLC

Website

https://blacksbarandkitchen.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Black's Bar & Kitchen is a single-location upscale-casual restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland, serving local diners and event bookers with an organic, locally sourced menu, an award-winning wine program of 300+ labels, and catering via EZ Cater, operating under Black Restaurant Group, LLC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Full-Service Restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fine Dining Restaurants (THAFACAA), Neighborhood Bars & Taverns (CRANACAA)

Keywords

• Full-service dining
• Wine bar programs
• Organic restaurant menus
• Happy hour service
• Private event catering

Headquarters

HQ city

Bethesda

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Full-service restaurant generating revenue through dine-in meals, bar sales, and alcoholic beverages. Revenue is transaction-based with customers paying per order at point of sale.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Black's Bar & Kitchen is a full-service American restaurant and bar in Bethesda, Maryland, serving lunch, dinner, bar, happy hour, and dessert offerings built around an organic, regionally sourced menu. The restaurant's signature offering is its food and beverage program, highlighted by an award-winning wine list of over 300 labels housed in a temperature-controlled wine room. Additional retail offerings include gift cards redeemable across all Black Restaurant Group locations and catering via EZ Cater.

Product overview

Black's Bar & Kitchen is a single-location restaurant in Bethesda, MD, operated by Black Restaurant Group. The restaurant operates as a unified full-service dining establishment offering multiple meal services including lunch, dinner, bar service, and happy hour. The product portfolio consists of food and beverage offerings centered around an innovative menu featuring organic ingredients with regional flavors from Virginia's Northern Neck and Southern Maryland. The wine program, recognized with Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence, showcases over 300 labels. Additional services include gift cards valid across all Black Restaurant Group locations and catering partnerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Full Restaurant & Bar Service Full-service dining with an innovative menu blending organic ingredients with regional flavors, complemented by an extensive wine selection of over 300 labels displayed in a temperature-controlled wine room. For dine-in guests in the Bethesda, Maryland area.
• Dinner Menu Dinner offerings including raw bar selections, starters, salads, seafood entrees, wood-grilled items, and sides featuring Chesapeake crab cakes, prime ribeye, branzino, and Ahi tuna. For evening diners.
• Lunch Menu Lunch service featuring raw bar items, soups, salads, handhelds including burgers and sandwiches, and entrees such as salmon, scallops, and steak frites. For midday diners.
• Bar Menu Bar fare including Black's hummus, mussels, wood-grilled burgers, Chesapeake crab cake sandwich, shrimp tacos, fish and chips, Thai seafood stew, and crispy Korean chicken wings. For bar guests.
• Desserts Dessert offerings including sweets, dessert wines, port selections, and dessert cocktails such as Javatini and Toasty Almond. For end-of-meal diners.
• Happy Hour Menu Happy hour offered Monday-Friday 3-6pm featuring discounted cocktails, draft beer, wines by the glass, and bar snacks including oysters Rockefeller, calamari, and duck nachos. For after-work and casual drink patrons.
• Wine Selection Over 300 wine labels across red, white, sparkling, and half-bottle selections, displayed in a state-of-the-art temperature-controlled wine room and recognized with the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. For wine-purchasing diners.
• Gift Cards Black Restaurant Group gift cards redeemable at all six locations, available for purchase online with instant delivery or at any of the group's restaurants. For gift-givers and regular customers.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Black Restaurant GroupcoreOthersBlack's Bar & Kitchen is owned and operated by Black Restaurant Group, LLC. The parent company manages multiple restaurant concepts in the DC metro area including BlackSalt Restaurant, BlackSalt Fish Market, Black Market Bistro, Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, Black Jack, TILT, and Black Coffee.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• The Capital Grille: National upscale steakhouse chain with locations in the DC metro area; comparable premium price points and wine program but operates as a broad incumbent rather than an independent concept.
• Morton's The Steakhouse: Iconic national upscale steakhouse brand with a presence in Bethesda/DC; competes directly for occasion dining, corporate events, and wine-pairing experiences at comparable price points.
• Ruth's Chris Steak House: Established national upscale steakhouse chain with DC metro locations; competes for similar high-spend diners seeking premium steaks, seafood, and an extensive wine list.

Direct peers

• Cesco Osteria (Trattoria Volpi / Ristorante Olivo): Bethesda Italian fine-dining concept with comparable average check size, full bar program, and neighborhood upscale positioning serving the same DC metro clientele.
• Pearl Dive Oyster Palace: Another Black Restaurant Group concept in DC, focused on oysters and seafood with a bar-driven experience. Highly comparable as a sibling concept sharing marketing, sourcing, and operational infrastructure.
• Maple Avenue Restaurant: Vienna, VA farm-to-table restaurant with comparable sourcing ethos, seasonal American menu, and similar mid-upscale price points to Black's Bar & Kitchen in the DC metro dining market.
• BlackSalt Restaurant: Sister concept under Black Restaurant Group in the DC metro area, offering seafood-focused upscale casual dining with a similar farm-to-table sourcing narrative and comparable price points. Directly comparable as a same-parent upscale concept.
• Black Market Bistro: Sibling Black Restaurant Group concept offering American bistro fare. Comparable as a same-parent brand operating with similar menu philosophy and shared back-of-house resources.

Regional players

• Chef Geoff's: DC-area independent upscale-casual concept offering American cuisine with strong bar and happy-hour programming; comparable neighborhood positioning and day-part mix in the same regional market.

Others

• Eddie V's Prime Seafood:

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BlacksBK
• Facebookfacebook.com/home.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/black%E2%80%99s-bar-&-kitchen

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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