A local kabob chain appears to be opening a new location in the base of a Ballston apartment building.
Signs posted at the space at 933 N. Quincy Street indicate that “Food Corner Kabob House” will soon open its doors in the area.
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The owners of the recently shuttered A-Town Bar and Grill in Ballston now say they’re transforming the restaurant into a German food hall.
The space at 4100 Fairfax Drive will soon become “Bronson,” offering up craft beer and traditional German fare, co-owner and chef Mike Cordero announced in a news release today (Wednesday).
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Longtime Rosslyn pizzeria Piola has now shut its doors.
The restaurant, located at 1550 Wilson Blvd, announced the move on its social media channels last Wednesday (Dec. 26). Piola had operated out of the space for the last 12 years.
An Arlington PR professional will get a chance to show off her smarts on “Jeopardy!” on New Year’s Day.
Maggie Byrd will be one of the contestants on the long-running quiz show on Jan. 1., according to a release from the show’s producers.
The year is nearly at an end, and so is our countdown of 2018’s top stories.
Our list of the year’s biggest news included plenty of crime stories, and a bevy of popular restaurant openings and closings.
Our first look at ARLnow’s most popular stories of 2018 had everything from restaurant closings and openings to the arrival of the Stanley Cup in Clarendon.
For the next five stories in our countdown, we’ve got some more of the same, plus a smattering of our most popular crime stories too.
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A pair of bars along Columbia Pike will soon shut down, as restaurateur Tony Wagner consolidates his South Arlington eateries into one location.
Both the Twisted Vines Bar and Bottleshop and BrickHaus beer garden will shut down after hosting New Year’s events on Dec. 31, Wagner told ARLnow.
We’re nearly at the end of another eventful year in Arlington, and that means it’s time to look back at our top stories of the past 12 months.
From Amazon’s arrival to a momentous local election, the county has not lacked for big stories this year. But a few stand out above all the rest to form our list of most-read articles.
Presidential Bank recently relocated its Rosslyn branch.
The bank closed up its location at 1700 N. Moore Street, just down the street from the Rosslyn Metro station, last month, according to signs posted on its storefront.
It’s Christmas Eve and ARLnow will now be taking a one-day break for the holiday.
We’ll see you back here on Wednesday for business as usual, with the addition of our annual countdown of top stories on the site. Can you guess what’s No. 1?
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A feral cat is a cat that lives in the wild without human intervention, and Arlington has plenty of them.
Anyone looking for some extra company for the holidays in the form of a four-legged friend might want to swing by the Animal Welfare League of Arlington sometime in the next few days.
The AWLA is looking for foster parents willing to take in a shelter pet over Christmas and New Year’s, launching a “Home for the Holidays” drive this week.