Rockville learned in July 2025 that a Dolan was on the way. Store Reporter, the local retail news site, first reported on July 10 that we would take over a prominent restaurant space at The Square in Rockville Town Center after its previous tenant closed, making Rockville our first Maryland restaurant and the fourth in the group. Three weeks later, on July 31, the site published a sneak peek inside.
"Here's a sneak peek of Rockville's new Dolan Uyghur Restaurant, opening this month," the first-look item began. It described Uyghur cuisine for Montgomery County readers as "a spicy blend of Chinese and Middle Eastern dishes including hand-pulled noodles, fried rice, dumplings, naan and kabobs," and it caught the breadth of our dessert case: "Desserts range from baklava and honey cake to Turkish pudding and Dubai chocolate cheesecake." It closed with a line we are always glad to see in print: "All the food is halal."
The Rockville dining room Store Reporter photographed had been rebuilt with the details Bethesda Magazine would later praise — gold-ornamented globe lights, a display of Uyghur cultural objects at the entrance — and eighty-eight seats, with patio tables on the square. Our manager Garrett Tohti would spend the following week finishing county inspections.
Dolan Rockville opened on August 9, 2025, at noon, with a post that read: "Come be one of the first to experience our authentic Uyghur cuisine, including our famous hand-pulled noodles and savory kebabs. Discover the culture, count memories." Since then the dessert case has only grown — the pastries Store Reporter spotted are now baked daily in our own production kitchen and supplied to other restaurants through Dolan Wholesale — and the "first look" has become a steady stream of regulars from Rockville Town Square.
Find us at 20-A Maryland Avenue, Monday and Tuesday 11 am – 9 pm and Wednesday through Sunday 11 am – 10 pm.
This article is our own account of the coverage; short quotations are attributed to Store Reporter, which holds the copyright to the original piece.
