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Six Ways to Sunday restaurant to open this spring in downtown Bethesda

Woodmont Triangle eatery to offer Cantonese Thai cuisine, highball cocktails

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Elia Griffin

April 3, 2026 11:38 a.m.

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Cantonese Thai restaurant Six Ways to Sunday is slated to open in downtown Bethesda’s Woodmont Triangle neighborhood by the end of April, co-owner and chef Satang Ruangsangwatana told Bethesda Today on Thursday.

Ruangsangwatana, who lives in Silver Spring, is the chef and culinary consultant behind Washington, D.C.’s Bar Chinois and said she also ran the Fat Nomads food truck in Kensington from 2017 to September 2025. She and her partner, chef Lekki Limvatana, operated the food truck and a supper club in the D.C. region together.

Six Ways to Sunday at 8003 Norfolk Ave. is the pair’s latest culinary venture in Montgomery County.

Ruangsangwatana said timing for the restaurant’s opening depends on the results of a county health inspection scheduled for next week.

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“After we pass, we can open like two weeks after. So we are aiming to open on the last weekend of April,” she said.

According to Ruangsangwatana, the new eatery will offer a variety of small plates, encouraging the family-style tradition of eating that’s common in Chinese and Thai culture. Some larger meat entrées are expected to be available as well. On Sundays, the eatery will open earlier for brunch.

Menus are not yet available on the restaurant’s website, however Ruangsangwatana dished some details to Bethesda Today about a few items that will be prepared at the Bethesda eatery.

Those dishes include Cantonese steak with an “addictive sauce” made of Shaoxing wine, hot oil, and a scallion, ginger and sesame oil chimichurri; Sichuan duck confit served with noodles and a “gingery, garlicky” sauce; and chicken chashu.

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Diners can also expect to find dim sum, soups, salads and desserts, but should not expect to find typical American Thai food, Ruangsangwatana said. Gluten-free and vegan options also will be available.

“I’m trying to bring some favorites for Thai people and introduce something new to Bethesda,” Ruangsangwatana said.

The restaurant’s concept is inspired by the Thai and Chinese backgrounds of the chefs. Ruangsangwatana said many of the menu items are inspired by those served in the Chinatown night market in Bangkok, Thailand — with the chef’s signature touch.

“We are going to put our own twist in there. All the dishes are our signatures, so we are not traditional, but all the dishes are authentic,” she said.

In addition to Cantonese Thai fusion cuisine, Ruangsangwatana said the restaurant will also specialize in Asian cocktails and the highball cocktail, a simple alcoholic drink typically made with soda water and whiskey.

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For brunch, which will be offered exclusively on Sundays, the restaurant will offer a signature Thai omelet rice dish, dim sum, coffee and matcha drinks, according to Ruangsangwatana.

The restaurant is opening in a long-vacant corner unit of a one-story commercial property at Norfolk and Del Ray avenues next to the Plane Jane Salon. The space is the former home of Satsuma Japanese restaurant, which closed in December 2022.

In June 2024, Six Ways to Sunday announced it would “soon” open in Bethesda, according to a social media post. Ruangsangwatana said the delay in opening stemmed from issues with construction, permit expirations and previous restaurant partners departing the team.

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Originally published at Bethesdamagazine