For years, if you wanted to eat in Kensington on a weekend, you walked Howard Avenue. Antique Row, the Saturday market at the old train station, a slice at Frankly Pizza, dinner at K Town Bistro. That was the map.
Spring 2026 quietly redrew it. Two openings on Connecticut Avenue and one on Kensington Parkway pulled the center of gravity a few blocks west, and the Saturday routine you have been running since the kids were small now has a Tuesday-through-Friday counterpart that did not exist last summer.
The Crossroads is finally acting like an anchor
The Crossroads at Kensington sits at Connecticut Avenue and Plyers Mill Road. For a long stretch it was a grocery-anchored strip with a lot of quiet frontage. That is over.
