Courthouse’s newest rooftop restaurant and bar is opening today (Thursday).
Rooftop Recess is soft opening at 4 p.m. at 2424 Wilson Blvd, where Arlington Rooftop Bar & Grill closed in 2023. The three-level restaurant offers contemporary American food, brunch and cocktails, with a relaxed atmosphere and garden-inspired interior.
Scolapasta has shifted gears in Ballston.
The fast-casual Italian restaurant has abandoned its plans to open this summer at 4219 Fairfax Drive, across the street from the Ballston Metro. Instead, owner Burak Temel told ARLnow that he intends to open a kiosk in the food court at Ballston Quarter.
Following a two-decade career at the Smithsonian Institution, a Fairlington artist has opened a new boutique with handmade stationery in Long Branch Creek.
Theresa Esterlund celebrated the grand opening of her new shop, Open to Being, last weekend at 2424 26th Road S. The shop carries cards, prints and notebooks featuring her original artwork, many printed on-site using an antique letterpress.
Free books, puzzles and prizes are coming to One More Page Books this weekend in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day.
The woman-owned shop in East Falls Church has planned a day of giveaways from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. this Saturday at 2200 N. Westmoreland Street.
A full slate of new businesses have opened in recent weeks and months at the West Falls development in Falls Church.
A daycare, dance studio, Chase Bank and Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls are just some of the project’s newest retailers — and even more restaurants, including an ice cream parlor and a ramen bar, are on their way this spring and summer.
Lost Dog Cafe’s owner is weighing his options as ongoing Columbia Pike construction and region-wide challenges for restaurants have him concerned about his bottom line.
The restaurant at 2920 Columbia Pike experienced a 10% drop in sales from 2023 to 2024, and if the current trend continues, owner James Barnes expects that number to dip another 8.75% by the end of this year.
Now celebrating a decade in Ballston, an award-winning Spanish restaurant is opening an outdoor patio as its owners consider plans for a new Arlington eatery.
SER co-owners Javier Candon and Christiana Campos commemorated 10 years at 1110 N. Glebe Road over the weekend alongside about 300 supporters. Expressing gratitude for community support and regional recognition, they teased expansion plans.
Fans of large, food-centric gas stations: break out the sparkling wine.
Wawa is reportedly scouting out locations in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax County and Loudoun County. That’s according to the Washington Business Journal, which says the company “is looking to substantially increase its footprint in Northern Virginia.”
Since 2021, a local attorney has made a splash in the Arlington restaurant scene, exuding confidence even as the industry faces increasing setbacks.
Fitzgerald Lewis, the founder of Lewis & Associates in Falls Church, owns nearly 20 eateries in D.C. area and internationally, including the Green Pig Bistro, Buena Vida Gastrolounge, Dudley’s Sport and Ale and Barley Mac in Arlington.
A Clarendon resident is opening a new bookstore out of a renovated camper van, with plans to hit the road this summer.
Tessa Cannon is aiming to launch The Wandering Shelf, an independent mobile bookshop with about 700 fiction and nonfiction titles, later this spring. In terms of selection, she told ARLnow the store is focused on three categories: “cozy, fantastical and impactful reads.”
The D.C. area’s restaurant community is warning of closures as economic pressures and federal actions raise fears of less spending and higher costs.
Impacts may be less severe in Arlington and Falls Church than in D.C., as some businesses are considering leaving the District for “better deals” in Northern Virginia. However, Shawn Townsend, president of the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), cautioned that Arlington restaurants remain vulnerable to issues involving federal job cuts, rising costs and a possible meals tax increase.
Arlington’s Good Company Doughnuts is debuting a new food truck to share its sweet treats, coffee and breakfast across the region.
The local shop — which has locations in Ballston, Crystal City and D.C. — is hoping to park regularly in Rosslyn in addition to catering at events throughout the region.
