Re: Dollar Tree on Maple Avenue in Vienna is now open!
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Date: October 02, 2024 06:08PM
Whopping Number of New Restaurants
2024-10-02 6:04 PM
A veritable explosion of 19 new eateries squeezing into the 2.2 square miles of the City of Falls Church is continuing, the City’s Economic Development Authority was told at its monthly City Hall meeting Tuesday night. All slated to be opening soon, and there are still more are on the way.
Most are related in one form or another with the construction and competition of the array of large scale mixed use projects that have come or are coming online here, and it’s hard to divine which deserve greater attention than any others.
Already the Little City, benefitting from the keen new interest in its prime location in the DMV along with its outstanding school system and overall quality of its local government, has seen for the first time in its history the emergence of three highly-touted restaurants, regularly included on lists of the wider region’s very finest – Thompson’s Italian, Ellie Bird and Nue – that discriminating diners will come from far and wide to enjoy.
So now more are coming, adding to the “critical mass” here, in conjunction with a lively arts scene (the State Theater, Creative Cauldron soon to be moving to fresh new digs, and the motion picture complex coming, hopefully by next April, into Founders Row). Once known only for its Volvo police cars, Falls Church is becoming famously known as a worthy destination for people and their dollars.
City Hall’s Becky Witsman summarized the approaching new wave to the EDA board Tuesday to include, in no particular order, coming into the Hoffman Group’s dense West Falls 10 acres, Ice Cream Jubilee, Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls, Burger Fi, Seoul Spice and Honoo Ramen and Bar.
Into Founders Row 1, in addition to what’s already opened up there, the eagerly-awaited Seoul Prime steakhouse will open next month, the first major steakhouse establishment here that will be joined by a second, GrillMarx, coming into the former Target building on S. Maple later on.
But also at Founders Row 1 and arriving soon are Fish Taco and Semicolon Cafe. The lease has been signed for Fish Taco in what will be the family-owned outfit’s fifth regional location featuring “traditional Baja-inspired flavors and cuisine.”
Inspections are continuing at the Seoul Prime and a building permit has been issued for Semicolon Cafe.
At Founder’s Row 2, which is still under construction catty-corner from Founder’s Row 1 at the W. Broad and West Street intersection, there is considerable excitement as the elegant Tatte Bakery and Cafe has signed on, offering a seasonal menu with Israeli, Mediterranean and European comfort food influences defining all its 35 D.C. area and Massachusetts locations. It will feature all-day and brunch menus.
Up and down W. Broad are coming the Union Bistro adjacent the Founders Row 1, Cafe Zevian in the Kensington building, Midori Tea Bar adjacent Panera Bread, the Stratford Garden across from the Harris-Teeter (when the old motel finally gets demolished), the Little Falls Creperie next to Zoya’s, the Dolan Uyghur restaurant where Pizzeria Orso was previously, GrillMarx steakhouse, the Casa Mariachi Bar and Grill where the Caribbean Plate was previously, Paris Baguette at the opposite end of the Aldi shopping center, and in the Eden Center at Seven Corners up the street, a new food hall currently under construction.
Meanwhile at the Insight Group’s Broad and Washington complex, the Whole Foods site will be completed later this year, inspections are continuing for the Creative Cauldron’s new location, and a remaining 5,600 square feet of retail space is very near two commitments. Meanwhile, the residential units there are beginning to be occupied.
In other EDA news, the board voted not to continue for a third year the holiday season’s Little City Gift Passes program, which had been funded by federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money designated for that purpose in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
On the other hand, it will help with $20,000 for another Restaurant Week event in January due to the success of the first one last January, including by retaining the services of Trish Barba’s Proxima Communications services.