A forthcoming pizza restaurant in Rosslyn plans to serve up Roman-style pies of the rectangular variety.
Ravenna Pizza advertises a menu with 13 varieties of sharp-cornered pizza, alongside salads, homemade gelato and Italian desserts. Owner Mustafa Durran plans to open in the former spot of Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop at 1500 Wilson Blvd by early to mid-January.
Ballston’s second Compass Coffee will open to the public this weekend with some giveaways.
The new cafe at 4300 Wilson Blvd, which the company has dubbed “Ballston West,” will hold its grand opening this Saturday. The first 100 customers who show up after the coffee shop opens at 6:30 a.m. will receive $25 gift cards.
Another Compass Coffee is slated to open a couple of blocks away from the local chain’s current Ballston location.
The new location will replace a coffee shop that just shuttered last week.
A whole new cast of retail and service characters is developing under The Grace and Reva apartments in Crystal City.
Veterinary hospital GoodVets is the newest in a series of tenants at 1900 Crystal Drive — including a cafe, a nail salon and a bar — announced by property owner JBG Smith. These will all join the recently opened Tatte and Van Leeuwen.
Cold Stone Creamery’s second Arlington location has started serving scoops.
Located at 3141 Langston Blvd, the ice cream shop opened its doors on Monday in the Lyon Village Shopping Center, seven months after announcing plans to open there.
A new player is entering the fitness market in south Arlington.
A Club Studio is expected to open later this year in the National Gateway complex at 3550 S. Clark Street, bringing a gym with cryotherapy services, boutique fitness classes and a “recovery lab” to the area near Potomac Yard and Crystal City.
A new watering hole — one boasting pool tables, shuffleboard, arcade games and other classic attractions — is coming to the Village at Shirlington.
The dimly-lit, 21-and-over bar dubbed “1969” will provide a relaxed sports bar reminiscent of a past generation, co-owner Geoff Dawson told ARLnow.
Falls Church may be known as the Little City but soon there will be nothing diminutive about its grocery options.
Three different grocery chains are set to join Falls Church’s existing selection of supermarkets in the coming months and years.
Efforts to open the long-awaited Clarendon Wine Club are once again underway.
The planned establishment at 1114 N. Irving Street has applied for two work permits this summer, including one last week. However, the bar’s interior buildout was already completed during the pandemic, according to one of the owners.
A small shop in Courthouse Plaza selling authentic Turkish grocery items has been gaining a following since opening in late February.
Avrasya Market, named after the Turkish word for Eurasia, is a 230 square-foot room packed to the brim with all kinds of Turkish goods. The shelves are stocked with spices, canned goods, comfort foods, condiments, beverages, cookies, pastries, chocolates, nuts, Turkish delight and more.
A new pool hall is coming to Clarendon.
Billiards, Bites and Beverages is expected to open at 3200 Wilson Blvd, the distinctive former site of the neighborhood’s Silver Diner location, according to permits.
Bobalicious Cafe, an eatery and bubble tea shop, opened for business at 3000 Washington Blvd in Clarendon last week.
The new cafe serves a variety of milk teas, fruit teas, smoothies, coffee and other chilled drinks. “Favorites” on the menu include milk tea, brown sugar milk tea, taro slush, cappuccino smoothie, Thai tea, sea salt coffee, passion fruit green tea, lychee green tea, peach black tea, and mango slush.
