Falls Church has twice as many restaurants as Arlington on new Washingtonian ‘100 Very Best’ list

Falls Church may be pint sized compared to Arlington, but the Little City next door has the county beat handily in a new list of the region’s best restaurants.

Three Arlington restaurants appear in Washingtonian’s just-released 100 Very Best Restaurants list. Twice as many Falls Church restaurants appear in the same pages.

That’s despite solid Northern Virginia representation on the “Very Best” list.

“Some of the year’s coolest spots — Joon in Tysons, Ellie Bird in Falls Church, Kirby Club in Fairfax — debuted in the Virginia suburbs,” the magazine noted in its introduction. In all, 21 Virginia eateries were listed.

Those in Arlington are:

1. Cafe Colline
2. Ruthie’s All Day
3. Padaek (which recently opened in Arlington and has another location in Seven Corners)

The six in Falls Church are:

1. Ellie Bird
2. La Tingeria (formerly an Arlington food truck)
3. Nue
4. Pho Ga Vang
5. Rice Paper
6. Thompson Italian