Benny's Manassas location, to be known as Benny Capolago's, will fill a vacant corner storefront next to Harris Pavilion on Center Street in the city's downtown district.
Benny's Pizza will soon be serving their famous "Virginia Slice" in Downtown Manassas. The pizza chain famous for their gigantic 28" pizza pies will open at 9209 Center Street later this year.
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The new brewery will be at Fredericksburg Square, a 19,000-square foot property on Caroline Street. The brewery will also be home to a new Hot Chikn Kitchn, a Nashville-style chicken restaurant in Woodbridge.
The owners of Water's End and Hot Chikn Kitchn, Zach Mote and Mike Sagaro, entered into a partnership that resulted in Fredericksburg Square's purchase. The duo had been working on this acquisition since Summer 2019, after dealing with setbacks such as the coronavirus pandemic and the passing of the building's owner Van Perroy they finally completed the sale in December 2021.
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Fatty's Taphouse will open in the former home of Tim's Rivershore Restaurant and Crabhouse, just outside Dumfries.
The Stafford-based seafood chain was one of many potential landlords that applied for the site at 1510 Cherry Hill Drive. According to the restaurant's owner and president, Chris Ahn, he and other landlords went through a multi-year process to ensure that whatever restaurant moved into the beloved crab shack would meet the standard family-friendliness set by the developer Potomac Shores project.
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Seafood restaurant chain Crafty Crab will soon make port and drop anchor at the Potomac Mills mall in Woodbridge.
Residents who like their seafood will get a chance to sit at the tables of the Florida-based chain to enjoy lobster, Crab, crawfish, and other under-the-sea fares. The restaurant will also have choices like Cajun-style rice and chicken tenders for land lovers.
The restaurant chain is also well known for their New Orleans-style low-country boil, a mix of seafood such as shrimp, crab, and mussels, with select seasonings.
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Mezeh, a Maryland-based Mediterranean grill, will open a new location at Potomac Mills mall.
Mezeh plans to open in the former location of Bobby's Burger Palace, a hamburger restaurant owned by celebrity chef Bobby Flay.
A date for the restaurant's grand opening has yet to be confirmed, restaurant spokeswoman Hayley Cunningham said. When the restaurant opens, customers who purchase a drink will be offered a free food bowl, she added.
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Malawi's Pizza is celebrating its fourth anniversary by unveiling its new food truck as part of a new mission to help feed the community.
That mission known as "Feed FXBG" seeks to engage with local companies in the Fredericksburg area to meet the hunger needs of the local community. Malawi's mission as "Pizza with a Purpose" has been the driving force for the company since its opening in Fredericksburg four years ago.
Malawi's Pizza charitable efforts are known as its "Journey to a Million Meals" program. That goal was to donate one meal to a child in Malawi, Africa, for every meal purchased in their restaurant.
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Crossroads Tabletop Tavern, a Manassas-based game pub, has put out a call to local historians for information about the building that it's inhabited since 2018.
According to Crossroad's post to its Facebook page, the building that houses the tavern located at 9412 Main Street will celebrate its 111th birthday. The tavern wants to mark the occasion by finding out more about the building's history, but they've only been able to go back as far as 1984.
The building had been a bar up to that point, but Crossroads owner and founder John Hornberger says that there's proof that people used to live in the building.
"The building may have been apartments since it has the wiring and remnants of bathroom facilities that would have gone along with those kinds of things," says Hornberger.
Hornberger also talked about an artifact from back when the bar was known as Jake's. In a drop ceiling above the kitchen not visible to the public's view, signatures of the people who took part in a drinking contest are seen. If participants drank all six of the bar's original beers in one night, their names would be added to the ceiling.
Another piece of the puzzle in the history of the building comes from the world of pop music, along with other landmarks in old town Manassas the building was featured in the Steve Winwood music video for the song "Back in the High Life Again."
Hornberger also plans to officially name the building if he can't find out its official name. His choice would be the Baggins Building, a nod to the character of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Crossroads plans to have a month-long celebration for the building, including a weeklong birthday celebration, an overnight gaming session for select invitees, and a month-long sale on games.
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Raising Canes wants to bring its brand of fried chicken tenders to the Manassas area.
The fast-food joint has spent more than $5,000 with the Prince Wiliam County Government, paying an application fee for a special-use permit that would allow the company to build a new restaurant with a drive-through lane.
The restaurant would be located on Liberia Avenue, at Signal Hill Road, just outside Manassas. If approved, the new restaurant would replace an old Applebees restaurant that most recently housed a Bar Louie at 9501 Liberia Avenue.
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The Eavesdrop Brewery in Yorkshire has undergone a very colorful facelift, one that according to general manager Sam Madden is giving the brewery a more eye-catching identity.
Over the last year, the owners of the brewery have brought in an artist to paint this mural across the building which as well as the brewery includes local businesses such as the Cairo Cafe, Eugene's Sausage and Fries, and the Renegade Classics Motorcycle Shop.
The mural, painted by artist Nick Zimbra, shows flora and fauna against a colorful background such as the rabbit running on the Renegade Classic shop front or the flowers on the front of the Cairo Cafe. Zimbra, who has worked on the mural over the course of three to four months, has done similar projects in Richmond where he is currently working on a mural for the Capital One building.
Madden praised the mural to Potomac Local News, saying that it's not something you would normally see in many places in Prince William County.
"Personally, I grew up in Prince William County. I'm like, man, there's no public art in. Yeah, it's so boring. So, like, stiff, but it was cool to see it," says Madden.
Madden also touts the uniqueness of the stores located next to the brewery, which includes The Drop Bottle Shop, which stocks hard-to-find ales.Â
"So that's stuff that you can't find in your Harris Teeter, Safeway, the other places, the small batches that they make," said Madden.
Many of the stores and restaurants in the brewery managed to survive through the pandemic even as they had to limit the number of customers by half. Many of the restaurants were able to survive through food delivery apps like Doordash as well as curbside service, said Madden.
Eavesdrop Brewery opened in 2017 and offers not just homebrewed beer but also local offerings of cheeses, meats, and honey that are produced at farms west of Manassas, located between Marshall and Front Royal.
Eavesdrop Brewery is located off of Route 28 at 7223 Centerville Road in Yorkshire.
