Ornery Beer Company is downsizing, sacrificing its Fairfax City restaurant to focus on ensuring the future of its other locations.
The brewpub announced today (Monday) that its location at 3950 University Drive, Suite 106, will permanently close on Sunday, July 26 after nearly eight years of operating in Old Town Fairfax.
When shoppers at Tysons Galleria ascend to the third floor for a bite to eat, they can choose between handmade pasta, burgers, street tacos, two different types of southeast Asian cuisine and two of Northern Virginia’s hottest chains.
The assortment stands in sharp contrast to what visitors encountered just three years ago, when the food hall lineup had dwindled to mainstay Andy’s Pizza and a couple of other holdovers that soon left.
Noodles & Company has closed its Herndon-area restaurant, one of more than two dozen locations expected to shutter this year.
The fast-casual chain’s closure yesterday (Wednesday) at 2405 Centerville Road in the Village Center at Dulles leaves just a handful of open locations in Fairfax County. Some of the other locations closed in recent years include Chantilly, Vienna, and Hybla Valley.
A new eatery paying homage to toum, a traditional Lebanese garlic sauce, will launch this fall inside NAJA Mediterranean at the Mosaic District.
The Merrifield restaurant announced last week that its founder, Tariq Alaeddin, has been developing the new concept “and toum” to introduce the D.C. region to the combination of broasted chicken and toum that was a staple of his childhood in Lebanon.
The New York City-based Wonder food hall will continue its expansion across Northern Virginia with a new location opening in Chantilly.
The new location at 13958 Route 50 is expected to open in spring 2027, a spokesperson confirmed to FFXnow. An exact opening date was not yet available.
Capital One Center’s inaugural Culinary Week was evidently a success, because the Tysons development will offer a second serving of the foodie celebration this summer.
Set for July 27-31, the second annual Culinary Week will feature cooking classes, contests and other events hosted by the restaurants on Capital One’s headquarters campus — including the forthcoming La Omri, a Mediterranean concept expected to open later this year.
A decade of business in Reston will come to an end next month for Not Your Average Joe’s (NYAJ).
The Massachusetts-based chain is permanently closing its location in the Spectrum at Reston Town Center on July 15, according to a sign recently posted to the restaurant’s front door.
Maggiano’s Little Italy is making its return to Tysons, bringing back its hallmark “family style” pastas and Italian fare after a months-long relocation process.
The popular Italian restaurant will open its new location at Tysons Corner Center on Monday (June 15) after closing in September at Tysons Galleria across Route 123. There, the restaurant will continue to serve Italian cuisine and shareable dishes in a massive 17,000-square-foot space previously held by Brio.
A 14-course high tea inspired by the south of France has arrived at Flore Café in Tysons’ Capital One Center.
The cafe inside the Sisters Thai restaurant (7735 Capital One Tower Road) officially launched its seasonal transformation on Saturday (June 6), combining French cuisine and floral touches to offer “Summer in Provence,” a summertime high tea billed as a “sensory escape.”
When a customer walks into Tippy’s Taco House, Lilibeth “Lily” Panlaqui often doesn’t even need to wait for them to order: She simply turns around and tells her husband, Rizal, who’s cooking in the kitchen, to get their regular order started. After nearly 30 years of working at the Centreville restaurant, Paniaqui not only knows her returning customers, she knows their grown-up children.
However, the couple will soon be in need of a new place of employment. After 40 years of serving budget meals in Centrewood Plaza, the local franchise will close its doors at 14119 St. Germain Drive permanently on June 14.
