Dan Egitto is an editor and reporter at ARLnow. Originally from Central Florida, he graduated from Duke University and previously reported at the Palatka Daily News in Florida and the Vallejo Times-Herald in California. Dan joined ARLnow in January 2024.
A spot for fried chicken and other Southern-style food and drink has closed after 11 years in the Rosslyn area.
Tupelo Honey permanently closed at 1616 N. Troy Street on Monday as its lease expired, according to a storefront notice.
A new Best Buns location opened today (Thursday) in Falls Church, serving up all-day breakfast and fried chicken sandwiches with a full-service bar.
The standalone spot in the West Falls development (265 W. Falls Station Blvd) is the Shirlington-based chain’s first to offer outdoor rooftop seating with cocktails, wine and draft beer, which sits above a grab-and-go area selling pastries, coffee, specialty sandwiches and more.
The cookie is crumbling.
Captain Cookie & the Milkman has closed its doors in Courthouse, joining Chip City in departing Arlington’s market for sweet treats. A sign reading “retail space available” is posted in the cookie shop’s window at 2200 Clarendon Blvd, and the space is no longer listed on the local chain’s website.
A crowd of protesters joined several members of Congress and local officials this morning (Thursday) to protest plans for a towering arch in Memorial Circle.
Speakers including U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), senators from Oregon and Illinois, a retired U.S. Army colonel and Arlington County Board member J.D. Spain Sr. kicked off a full day of demonstrations planned near the traffic circle between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial.
The old Goodwill on S. Glebe Road has been torn down, making way for a new retail facility and affordable housing project.
Crews have completed demolition at 10 S. Glebe Road and are currently building out the foundation for the new building, which will include 128 units of affordable housing, an on-site childcare facility and a new Goodwill store and collection center.
A new grocery store with a wide selection of organic products, bulk dry goods and oven-ready entrees has opened on Langston Blvd.
Sprouts Farmers Market hosted its grand opening earlier this month in the Lyon Village Shopping Center. Interior signage promises “organics on every aisle,” and the supermarket delivers on that.
A new cafe with freshly roasted coffee beans, house-made syrups and coffee-infused cocktails is seeking to open within the next few months in Shirlington.
The Roasted Vine, which recently got construction permits approved at 4150 Campbell Avenue, offered the first taste of its cold brews and specialty blends at Celtic Fest earlier this month. Co-owner Mackenzie Ryan told ARLnow that initial responses were overwhelmingly positive.
In Arlington, goldendoodles are top dog.
That’s according to a new ranking from Rover, which found that the curly-haired mix between a poodle and a golden retriever was the most popular dog in the county.
Two cookie shops in Clarendon and Shirlington have shuttered amid closures of Chip City locations nationwide.
The New York-based cookie purveyor no longer lists any of its three Virginia locations on its website. No signage indicating the closures is up at 2700 Clarendon Blvd or 4014 Campbell Avenue, but the sites are listed as “permanently closed” on Google and multiple tipsters have contacted ARLnow about what they say was a sudden change.
A stretch of road in Pentagon City remains blocked more than four months after a sinkhole appeared there.
The hole has been covered and a large metal plate has been installed on a portion of 13th Street S. between Costco and Metropolitan Park. However, the road is still barricaded as ownership of the Millennium at National Landing apartment building continues to coordinate with county staff.
Arlington County and the City of Alexandria are teaming up on proceedings related to a massive proposed merger involving Dominion Energy.
The county announced plans earlier this month to intervene in NextEra Energy’s bid to acquire Dominion for $67 billion, an energy merger that the county says would be the largest in U.S. history. Today (Monday), officials announced that Arlington’s legal efforts will be in partnership with its next-door neighbor.
Arlington’s bagel craze is spreading.
Bullfrog Bagels in flavors such as poppyseed, sesame, cinnamon raisin and everything became available today (Monday) at the Ghostburger stall at Upside on Moore in Rosslyn.
