The Hooters restaurant near Manassas Mall permanently closed its doors on Friday, June 21. Customers who use the restaurant's app received a message saying the location at 8503 Rixlew Lane in Manassas has "permanently closed its doors." Hooters still has locations in Chantilly, Fairfax, Woodbridge, and Fredericksburg.
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Lil' Bowl has moved to 9121 Manassas Drive.
Lil’ Bowl, formerly in the Fresh World Supermarket on Liberia Avenue, has a new home. In May, they moved to 9121 Manassas Drive in Manassas Park.
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Artidoro RodrĂguez CafĂ© (Artidoro), a boutique Peruvian coffee company, has opened its first U.S. coffee bar in Manassas.
"We are proud to be the first restaurant to host an Artidoro Rodriguez Peruvian coffee bar,” said Claudio Felipe Munoz, owner of Taty’s, a Peruvian restaurant. Taty's, at 10768 Sudley Manor Drive, will host the bar inside its restaurant.
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Michael Choi has wooed Northern Virginia with delicious food, from making large meals for his kitchen staff to launching his third restaurant. The third Wooboi restaurant will open on Saturday, June 1, at 12721 Shoppes Lane in Fairfax. On opening day, every order will get free wings.
Choi graduated from New York’s Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in 2017 and began working in the kitchen at a steakhouse and then at a Four Seasons hotel. He said his tasks involved making the family meals for the restaurant staff, who affectionately called him Woo Boy. He explained that Choi’s Korean name is Minwoo, and the staff accused him of wooing them with the meals.
In 2018, Choi launched his first Wooboi restaurant in Herndon. He followed up with a second location in 2020 in Alexandria. Choi said he signed the lease in early 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic began. He said the pandemic changed how he planned to grow his businesses, with more focus on take-out meals.
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“Suad’s Majles Desserts and Coffee” will mark its first anniversary in June. But it didn’t take a year for their customers to become regulars and discover drinks and pastries rich in culture and tradition.
Pistachio, saffron, and rose water are used in many of their recipes to give the food a Middle Eastern flair.
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Stafford County's third Panera restaurant will open at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, May 29. The first 50 guests will receive a year's free "You Pick Two" meals.
"You Pick Two" meals will allow rewarded guests to select any combination of two half-size entrees from the Panera Bread menu.
The new restaurant will be at 940 Wonder Road, in the Embrey Mill Town Center in Stafford. Even if you don't make the first 50, all guests who visit on opening day between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. will have a chance to spin a prize wheel to win free tumblers, car coasters, cookies, bagels, and more.
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This summer, New York style bagels and hand-scooped ice cream are coming to Gainesville. Two foodies with bagel and scoop training are opening side-by-side restaurants for the food they couldn't find in their new town.
When Scott and Annie MacDougall relocated to Bristow from the New York, New Jersey area in 2022, they missed two things from back home: bagels and ice cream. “We couldn’t find a bagel to our liking. The other was the hand-scooped ice cream. Being foodies, they set out to bring two of their favorite foods to Gainesville with Time 4 Bagels Cafe and Mac’s Ice Shop.
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(Washington Business Journal) Sonic, which, of course, sells burgers and hot dogs but is probably best known for its drinks (large variety of shakes, slushes) and sides (tots, onion rings, mozzarella sticks), only operates two franchised restaurants in Northern Virginia, one in Manassas and another in Leesburg [and in Stafford County].
With over 7,000 miles of coastline, Mexico offers a unique cuisine scene with more than just traditional Mexican dishes. In fact, Mexican seafood has long been a popular fare in areas like Cancun, Tampico, and Baja California. Now, diners in Northern Virginia can taste many popular Mexican seafood dishes at Mariscos Cancun Mexican Seafood and Grill restaurant in Manassas.
For founder and owner Cesar Lopez, a resident of Manassas, the restaurant’s elaborate menu was inspired by similar restaurants in the Houston area, but may yet be unfamiliar to many diners in Northern Virginia, he admits.
