A new Afghan restaurant serving family recipes for kabobs, flavorful meat and baked goods opened on Langston Blvd earlier this year.
Amu Kitchen offers western Afghan cuisine with Mediterranean influences at 4775 Langston Blvd, with kabobs including char-grilled lamb, flame-grilled chicken, smoky ground beef and vegetable options. A specialty is the qabuli palau, a large piece of lamb cooked in rice to infuse it with juices and flavor.
A new Thai restaurant specializing in basil fried rice and other street food-inspired dishes has been getting settled on Langston Blvd.
Kaphrao Express opened at 5123 Langston Blvd in January, serving authentic Thai recipes like pad thai with tamarind sauce and basil dishes served with rice and proteins like stir fried chicken and crab meat. Its owner, Yook Limrat, already has expansion on his mind.
Brining rights are on the line at an upcoming pickling contest at a Langston Blvd barbecue spot.
Sloppy Mama’s is hosting its second “pickle party” competition this Saturday from 2:30-4:30 p.m., inviting guests to vote on the quality of a brined bounty of pickled cucumbers, mangos and more.
A proposal for a senior living facility on Langston Blvd received mixed marks at a site plan review committee (SPRC) meeting last week.
The project by Kensington Senior Living won praise from some for generally meeting the spirit of the 2023 Langston Boulevard Area Plan. However, others criticized some design elements, a lack of affordable units and insufficient retail space along Cherry Hill Road.
Encore Stage & Studio last week paid tribute to local photographer Cindy Kane, who for most of the past decade has chronicled its youth-theater performances.
Kane has proved “very special to our organization,” Encore executive director Sara Duke said in a presentation held July 18 during intermission of “The Addams Family” at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre.
A new coffee truck serving cafe classics and Nepali specialties has opened outside a gas station in Cherrydale.
Located at 4019 Langston Blvd, Coffee Libations has been open for about a month. Owner Anshu Bhusal, a long-time coffee shop employee, told ARLnow he’d been looking for an opportunity to bring customers both authentic Nepali recipes and brews of his own creation.
Advocates for the shuttered Lee Community Center are making a last-minute bid to include renovation funding in the county’s updated capital improvement plan.
Jean Henceroth, president of the Leeway Overlee Civic Association, said $10 million in funding would allow for the upgrades needed to reopen the facility.
A new grocery store at a Langston Blvd shopping center has set an opening date in September.
Sprouts Farmers Market plans to hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 25 at 3115 Langston Blvd, in the former home of a Giant supermarket that closed in March 2024, a spokesperson told ARLnow. The grocer has already begun hiring at the location, which was first announced in May 2025.
It was the end of an era Sunday (July 5), as Metro 29 Diner concluded 31 years of dinner service.
The Langston Blvd landmark is keeping breakfast and lunch service starting at 6 a.m. daily, but will now close at 4 p.m. daily rather than 10 p.m.
The former Lee Community Center on Langston Blvd could remain on ice for up to a decade while county officials decide what to do with it.
County Manager Mark Schwartz’s proposed 10-year capital improvement plan (CIP), released in May, calls for waiting until fiscal year 2035 or 2036 before addressing renovations and future programming at the facility. However, both civic leaders and at least one County Board member are hopeful they can shorten that timeline.
Arlingtonians who have long dreamed of soaring between locations by way of an aerial gondola system appear to have a new champion.
A firefighter and lifelong Arlington resident, Danny Wang, has entered the fight for gondola-style transit with a 40-page report sketching out a highly ambitious proposal.
A Capital One branch on Langston Blvd is closing today (Wednesday).
The bank at 4700 Langston Blvd will permanently close its doors at 5 p.m., according to notices posted at the location.
