Arlington and Falls Church restaurants ranging from all-day breakfast to upscale Vietnamese cuisine earned spots in a new ranking of Northern Virginia establishments.
Six restaurants in Arlington and five in Falls Church made Northern Virginia Magazine’s list of the top 50 restaurants in the region. The winners are as follows.
If you can afford to live here, Arlington is a fabulous place to rent an apartment, a new survey concludes.
The county ranked fifth nationally in the 2026 “Best Cities for Renters” ranking from Apartment List.
A popular sushi restaurant in East Falls Church has ranked among the top 10 best places to eat in Northern Virginia.
Yume Sushi (2121 N. Westmoreland Street) claimed the No. 8 spot in Northern Virginia Magazine’s latest ranking of the best restaurants in the region.
Restaurants in Arlington may have to do some work to win the favor of The Washington Post’s new food critic.
Elazar Sontag, who moved to D.C. to replace longtime critic Tom Sietsema in late 2025, dined at 189 restaurants to compile a new ranking of the 40 best restaurants in the D.C. area. Not a single Arlington restaurant made his list — although in Falls Church, the Eden Center’s Truong Tien made a strong showing to rank as No. 10.
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.
Virginia’s best public school system, middle school and elementary school are all in Falls Church or Arlington this year, according to one ranking.
Overall, Arlington Public Schools clocked in at No. 3 in the state in a new ranking from Niche, while Falls Church City Public Schools held onto its spot at No. 1.
An Arlington pie shop is now, by at least one measure, the best in the country.
Livin’ The Pie Life, at 2166 N. Glebe Road, finished first among the 10 winners of Newsweek’s “America’s Best Pie 2026” Readers’ Choice Awards. The magazine published the results on Sept. 9.
A ZIP code on the western end of Arlington has one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the entire D.C. area, by one metric.
The 22205 ZIP code, home to neighborhoods including Westover Village, Tara-Leeway Heights, Madison Manor and Dominion Hills, was named the wealthiest in Arlington in a new ranking by the Washington Business Journal.
Is there anything Falls Church residents love as much as dogs? Cats, apparently.
Just months after being named the most “dog-loving” city in Virginia, the Little City has ranked top in the state for its residents’ love of cats.
Arlington has once again been named America’s fittest “city,” extending its streak to nine years in a row.
The county — which the ranking counts as a city — finished first among the 100 largest U.S. cities in the 19th annual American Fitness Index, released today (Tuesday) by the American College of Sports Medicine and the Elevance Health Foundation.
Virginia has climbed a spot in CNBC’s annual ranking of the best states for business, a year after federal job cuts helped knock it out of the No. 1 position.
The state placed third in the 2026 rankings released today (Thursday), up from fourth last year. Ohio took the top spot for the first time, followed by North Carolina, with Texas and Minnesota rounding out the top five. CNBC scored all 50 states on 138 metrics across 10 categories in the study, now in its 20th year.
Arlington added a company to the Fortune 500 this year, bringing to four the number of the nation’s 500 largest public companies headquartered in the county.
Liquefied natural gas company Venture Global debuted at No. 328 on the 2026 list, which Fortune released Wednesday morning. The Arlington-based firm, public since early 2025, reported $13.8 billion in revenue, according to the Washington Business Journal.
