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Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: mara_sov2 ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:11PM

Remember Ponderosa Steak House? Or Steak and Egg? ...not to mention Sir Walter Raleigh. What were some others? and where were they?

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Posted by: Sizzler ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:15PM

Sizzler

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Posted by: yum ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:16PM

Rustler

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Posted by: tastee ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:20PM

The Ground Round

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Posted by: steak house ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:22PM

Brinkleys in 7 Corners.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: BEH ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:22PM

Any that weren't part of a chain?

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Posted by: Rosslyn ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:28PM

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> Any that weren't part of a chain?


Orleans House.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: DH ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:31PM

Tom Westons

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: mara_sov2 ()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:36PM

Mr. Steak in Alexandria. in the 80s. Also, was Blackies House of Beef in Springfield part of a chain?

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Posted by: booger ()
Date: August 28, 2012 04:52PM

There used to be a York Steakhouse in Springfield Mall.

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Posted by: Makemeasteakbitch ()
Date: August 28, 2012 04:59PM

Wagon Wheel.

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Posted by: Grillin' Steaks ()
Date: August 28, 2012 05:02PM

Vallee's Steak House in Springfield!

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Posted by: Fine Dining ()
Date: August 28, 2012 05:06PM

Emerson's - All the beer, all the salad.

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Date: August 28, 2012 05:12PM

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: 1995hoo ()
Date: August 28, 2012 06:40PM

There was a J.R.'s Steakhouse at the Circle Towers complex near Fairfax Circle, ground level on the side facing US-29 (Lee Highway). In another thread someone said it was owned by the same people who own the J.R.'s Stockyards Inn at Tysons Corner, although I have no confirmation yea or nay on that. As a kid I thought J.R.'s was going to close because "somebody shot the owner." (We weren't allowed to watch Dallas back then but we certainly heard about "Who Shot J.R.?" what with all the hype.)

The Sir Walter Raleigh building on Gatehouse Road is still abandoned. A bit of an eyesore in its highly-dilapidated state.

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Posted by: watching convention ()
Date: August 28, 2012 09:22PM

Anybody remember Lums...not a steak house but a big chain that disappeared.

Picked up a waitress at The Wagon wheel, took dates to Vallees in Springfield, Steak and Ale, JR's at Tysons, etc etc..


great list with good memories

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Posted by: Berdhuis ()
Date: August 28, 2012 09:29PM

Anyone remember the name of the steakhouse at Oakton Shopping Center from long ago that had the little drawbridge you had to cross after you opened the front door? There were armored suits with axes flanking the drawbridge, too.

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Posted by: Daulphine ()
Date: August 28, 2012 10:06PM

Blackie's House of Beef

Charlie's Place

Steak and Ale

Daulphine's Steak House

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Posted by: Berdhuis ()
Date: August 28, 2012 10:35PM

The Black Baron

The King's Arms Tavern (just recalled the one in Oakton Shopping Center)

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Posted by: Springfield Steaks ()
Date: August 28, 2012 10:38PM

Remember Phineas in Springfield on the corner of Old Keene Mill Rd & Backlick Rd. Their Prime Rib was outstanding, as was just about everything else on their menu, including the chocolate cheesecake. And their Salad Bar was second to none. It closed as was converted to Charley's Place a year or so later (I worked as a waiter their while attending NOVA.)

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Posted by: old school ()
Date: August 29, 2012 09:08AM

Fine Dining Wrote:
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> Emerson's - All the beer, all the salad.
Fine Dining,
My parents often took me there as a small kid but I don't remember much about it. Any info that you could share about Emerson's would be appreciated.
Thanks

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Posted by: Fine Dining ()
Date: August 29, 2012 02:16PM

old school Wrote:
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> Fine Dining Wrote:
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> > Emerson's - All the beer, all the salad.
> Fine Dining,
> My parents often took me there as a small kid but
> I don't remember much about it. Any info that you
> could share about Emerson's would be appreciated.
> Thanks


I wish I could but I don't remember a lot about the place. As I recall it was dark inside, the food was good, but I was in high school so anything was good. They ran a lot of ads and their tag line was "All the beer, all the salad." They had unlimited of both with your meal. I seem to remember that the building was yellow and really stood out. Otherwise, I don't recall a lot about Emerson's.

Wingnut - I don't recall the Plumb part of the name. It might be but i just don't recall.

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Posted by: Brian2 ()
Date: May 27, 2014 04:16PM

Emerson's was definitely a chain. When I worked at 14th and 6 in the early 79's some of us used to go have lunch to an outlet that I think was on K St. Beer for lunch - great! This was when you could get beer at 18.....

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Posted by: True The Vote ! ()
Date: May 27, 2014 04:50PM

Ribsters? Annandale.

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Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: May 27, 2014 04:55PM

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Fairfax City Cat ()
Date: May 27, 2014 06:13PM

Victoria Station . there were two I knew of 1 in Fairfax the other in Alex.
Old train cars a really weird Concept. They did have a good steak and Prime Rib

Steak and Ale, Emersons were good. Emersons had all the Sangria wine like cooler and beer and salad. It was a great place and the one at Tysons had disco dancing i9n the 70's.

Where Angie's is in Twinbrook Plaza on Braddock Road. The place was opened new by a guy who's family owned Bazzanos. He hand cut and grilled a great steak in the late 70's.

Some of the old famous ones I had been inside but never ate there Tom Westons , Black Orchid in Annandale. And I always wanted to go to Tom Sarris in Arlington but never did.

On the cheap side Ponderosa on Rt 237 Rustler on Rt 50 or vice versa.
Wagon Wheel in Annandale and my old favorite, Buckaroo Steak House at Ravensworth early 70's.

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Posted by: True The Vote ! ()
Date: May 27, 2014 06:24PM

They are gone...Outback sucks, was it madcow disease that led to their demise? I guess we have to eat rice and beans, dogs and cats, yardbirds, and raw fish. Dauphines was the last to go, I thought Blackies would stage a comeback, kinda like the Redskins.

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Posted by: Ah yeah! ()
Date: May 27, 2014 06:38PM

Springfield Steaks Wrote:
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> Remember Phineas in Springfield on the corner of
> Old Keene Mill Rd & Backlick Rd. Their Prime Rib
> was outstanding, as was just about everything else
> on their menu, including the chocolate cheesecake.
> And their Salad Bar was second to none. It
> closed as was converted to Charley's Place a year
> or so later (I worked as a waiter their while
> attending NOVA.)

This place rocked!
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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Date: May 27, 2014 10:18PM

Lazar's in Springfield Mall... Entrance 2 first door on the left across from The House of Liu. Not too bad as I recall. They had a Friday steak special for cheap that we late teen redcoat security "officers" took advantage of since it was payday. It became Charlie's Place in the 80s.

Slade's. Also at Springfield Mall, across from the DMV express (kind of) on the lower level. Slade's was good. They had a half-price policy for mall employees that extended to your bar tab until VaABC caught it. I had more fun in that bar then I ever had anywhere else. Everyone was welcome.

Beefsteak Charlie's. There was one on Duke Street maybe halfway between the city and Landmark.(?) All you can eat salad bar, steamed spiced shrimp, and, in Maryland anyway, all you can drink beer, wine, or/and sangria. In Virginia is was like a quarter for a half pitcher of beer or sangria and the same for a small carafe of wine. The one on Duke Street became an Emerson's if I recall correctly.

York Steak House at Springfield Mall was good as well.

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Posted by: ranch house ()
Date: May 28, 2014 05:01AM

Remember the Ranch house? It was next door to southern states on 123. They had a kickass steak and egg breakfast special back in the 80s.

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Posted by: Nostradamus ()
Date: May 28, 2014 11:14AM

ranch house Wrote:
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> Remember the Ranch house? It was next door to
> southern states on 123. They had a kickass steak
> and egg breakfast special back in the 80s.


There was also a Ranch House on route 7 in Falls Church. Great place to go for late night chow after the bars.

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Date: May 28, 2014 11:17AM

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: S. Pursley ()
Date: September 03, 2014 09:50AM

Emerson's was where my husband and I went to celebrate getting married on this day in 1974 in Alexandria, Virginia. We had great steaks and salads and the famous Emerson's Grog!

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Posted by: FxEx7 ()
Date: September 03, 2014 02:28PM

Dauphines Steak House -- still open in Springfield!

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Posted by: Sheriff Bittle ()
Date: September 03, 2014 02:31PM

Mountain Jacks in Falls Church City on Broad Street. Since replaced by another homogenous Applebee's.

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Posted by: 1995hoo ()
Date: September 03, 2014 05:15PM

Something made me remember there used to be a Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse on Commerce Street in Springfield roughly across the street from where the Bank of America drive-thru lanes are now (maybe slightly down the street to the right; I think it's some kind of southeast Asian restaurant now). Bugaboo Creek was essentially a Canadian-themed version of Outback and I don't recall it lasting very long.

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Posted by: Bonanza ()
Date: September 03, 2014 08:14PM

Don't forget about that Bonanza, and Burger Chef had "The Rancher" It was their answer to a fast food steak sandwich circa 1972

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Posted by: NoChimpout ()
Date: September 03, 2014 08:39PM

1995hoo Wrote:
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> Something made me remember there used to be a
> Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse on Commerce Street in
> Springfield roughly across the street from where
> the Bank of America drive-thru lanes are now
> (maybe slightly down the street to the right; I
> think it's some kind of southeast Asian restaurant
> now). Bugaboo Creek was essentially a
> Canadian-themed version of Outback and I don't
> recall it lasting very long.


Its been an Asian all-you-can-eat place for about 11 years now. There was another Bugaboo in southern MD around Germantown that went under too. I used to pass it going up to Frederick.

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Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: September 03, 2014 08:55PM

Sheriff Bittle Wrote:
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> Mountain Jacks in Falls Church City on Broad
> Street. Since replaced by another homogenous
> Applebee's.

Damnit, you hadda bring them up! Loved that place. My wife of 27 years and I used to go there all the time when we were dating.

Also Caldwell's.

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Posted by: 1995hoo ()
Date: September 04, 2014 10:06AM

The name Caldwell's sounds very familiar but I cannot picture where it was. I seem to recall my brother, when he was a little kid, being unable to pronounce the name and calling it "Cloudwell's" (or something similar).

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: YeahYeah ()
Date: September 04, 2014 12:03PM

Wasn't Bugaboo Creek the place with the talking moose? Enjoyed it the first couple of times, then it was a pain in the butt!




NoChimpout Wrote:
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> 1995hoo Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Something made me remember there used to be a
> > Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse on Commerce Street in
> > Springfield roughly across the street from
> where
> > the Bank of America drive-thru lanes are now
> > (maybe slightly down the street to the right; I
> > think it's some kind of southeast Asian
> restaurant
> > now). Bugaboo Creek was essentially a
> > Canadian-themed version of Outback and I don't
> > recall it lasting very long.
>
>
> Its been an Asian all-you-can-eat place for about
> 11 years now. There was another Bugaboo in
> southern MD around Germantown that went under too.
> I used to pass it going up to Frederick.

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Posted by: Mick ()
Date: September 04, 2014 12:52PM

Not steak houses in particular, but they had great steak Diane and of course filet mignon - Le Couvert in Springfield, next to the tall medical building, and I think run by the same people, La Guingette in Merrifield in the same center as the old body shop that had so much stuff decorating it.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Transplant ()
Date: September 04, 2014 01:30PM

Squire Rockwells, Little River Turnpike, burnt a few years ago.

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Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: September 04, 2014 07:12PM

1995hoo Wrote:
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> The name Caldwell's sounds very familiar but I
> cannot picture where it was. I seem to recall my
> brother, when he was a little kid, being unable to
> pronounce the name and calling it "Cloudwell's"
> (or something similar).

Sort of across from the Fuddrucker's in Annandale. I know that's not a great description; it's been, like, a while...

It was far back from the road, with parking in front, IIRC.



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Posted by: 1995hoo ()
Date: September 05, 2014 10:28AM

Greybeard Wrote:
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> 1995hoo Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The name Caldwell's sounds very familiar but I
> > cannot picture where it was. I seem to recall
> my
> > brother, when he was a little kid, being unable
> to
> > pronounce the name and calling it "Cloudwell's"
> > (or something similar).
>
> Sort of across from the Fuddrucker's in Annandale.
> I know that's not a great description; it's been,
> like, a while...
>
> It was far back from the road, with parking in
> front, IIRC.

This is ringing a bell....maybe over where Shakey's, and later Horn & Horn Smorgasbord, used to be? (I don't remember what's there now.)

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Posted by: Sleepy Holla ()
Date: September 05, 2014 11:17AM

Yes, It was Caldwell's...featuring mesquite grilled steaks....originally it was Bennington's but changed it's name as the new chain Bennigan's was coming to town, down by Landmark. It was a nice spot w/ good food and GREAT BARTENDERS.

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Posted by: Hgvv ()
Date: September 05, 2014 10:14PM

Ranch House was in Fairfax. Gus' Broiler in Springfield. There was a place called The Jolly Ox, but I can't recall where it was ( maybe down off Rte 1?)

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Posted by: blanche ()
Date: September 06, 2014 09:54AM

1995hoo Wrote:
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> The name Caldwell's sounds very familiar but I
> cannot picture where it was. I seem to recall my
> brother, when he was a little kid, being unable to
> pronounce the name and calling it "Cloudwell's"
> (or something similar).


Caldwell's was across Little River Turnpike from the Annandale Giant. Before that it was, wait for it, Shakees

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Posted by: Sleepy Holla ()
Date: September 06, 2014 11:51AM

Yes, Blanche....fine job. After Shakey's it was Bennington's...BEFORE Caldwell's.
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Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: September 06, 2014 07:39PM

blanche Wrote:
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> Caldwell's was across Little River Turnpike from
> the Annandale Giant. Before that it was, wait for
> it, Shakees

Now "Magill's Famous Pizza & Buffet"? Looking at Google Maps that feels right, but it was a long time ago. https://goo.gl/maps/Nt8YX

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Posted by: DH ()
Date: September 06, 2014 08:15PM

I'm confused,
I remember Shakeys as being next to where the First Va. Bank (BB&T) was and now is a CVS, with the bank moving down Backlick next to CVS now. I use to live in the townhouses on the other side of Backlick in the 80's and we would walk to Shakeys.
Now it is Magills Pizza. Mike Magill who owns it use to be part owner of Shakeys when it was there. My sister knew him I think.

What I remember about Caldwells was that it was down in between where Bob's Big Boy (now an antique shop I think) was and Pep Boys. Was Shakeys down there before it was where Magills is now?

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Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: September 06, 2014 08:22PM

DH, I clearly remember that big parking lot in front of Caldwell's. So one of our memories is blurry; I'm betting it's yours, but of course I would :)

Hopefully someone else can break the tie!

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Posted by: DH ()
Date: September 06, 2014 08:51PM

Greybeard Wrote:
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> DH, I clearly remember that big parking lot in
> front of Caldwell's. So one of our memories is
> blurry; I'm betting it's yours, but of course I
> would :)
>
> Hopefully someone else can break the tie!


Hey Greybeard, I agree about the parking lot. What I remember is that Caldwells did sit back off of Little River Tpike, so there was a large parking lot in front, but it was down next to Pep Boys.
I guess what I am questioning is that Caldwells was Shakeys. I am sure I remember Shakeys being built where Magills is now. It was new construction and I can't forget the free pitchers of beer on Saturday nights, LOL!

a little research here:
Magills/Shakeys is 7201 Little River Tpike
Caldwells/Bennington and whatever it is now is 7131 Little River Tpike

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: September 06, 2014 09:25PM

DH: I think you're right -- this thread: http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/207920.html talks about something called Main Street USA that followed Caldwell's, and lists the address as 7131 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003. https://goo.gl/maps/jMBBv shows that address, also with the big front parking lot, and right next to Pep Boys.

Now, I suspect we have violated FFU protocol by disagreeing about something without resorting to ad hominem attacks, and then actually coming to a peaceable resolution. Next thing you know, Jews and Arabs, Democrats and Republicans, and lions and lambs will all be partying together!

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Posted by: DH ()
Date: September 06, 2014 10:30PM

Greybeard, that's cool.
"a peaceable resolution" What would people think?
We better keep that to ourselves, no one would believe it anyway :)

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Posted by: Sleepy Holla ()
Date: September 07, 2014 10:42AM

@DH and Greybeard....VERY funny. Here is another wrench to throw into the Shakey's/Magills timeline....The Old Spaghetti Mill.
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Posted by: DH ()
Date: September 07, 2014 12:24PM

Hey Sleepy, I'm trying to remember if Shakeys took up the whole building in the beginning. For some reason I think it did, then they split the building. Shakeys, later to become Magills was on the right side and many different places on the left. I remember Horn and Horn, I forgot about the Spaghetti Mill and a whole bunch of other places.

Here is an interesting link about Mike Magill
http://patch.com/virginia/annandale/meet-the-man-behind-magills

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Posted by: Brian... ()
Date: September 28, 2015 10:40PM

Emerson's was great. I worked there as a dishwasher, busboy and porter (janitor). I was too young to be working there. I had to get a work permit.

Does anyone have a picture of Emerson's? I would like to see one.

It was located about where the car wash and Mexican restaurant next to the Hampton Inn in Fairfax are located today.

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Posted by: Mr Steak ()
Date: September 29, 2015 09:43AM

Interestingly, Squire Rockwells on Rt. 236 was originally a Steak & Ale.

How about Sir Walter Raleigh Inn just off Gallows Rd, across from Luther Jackson MS.

The Fairfax Steak & Ale, which is now a Moose Lodge or something just off Rt. 123, was the first restaurant management position for Chris Sullivan back in the 70s, the founder of Outback.

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Posted by: Sleepy Holla ()
Date: September 29, 2015 11:13AM

Brian, All I've got...
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Posted by: lbss82bruin ()
Date: September 29, 2015 01:18PM

Western sizzlin'

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Posted by: before that ()
Date: September 29, 2015 02:30PM

Sheriff Bittle Wrote:
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> Mountain Jacks in Falls Church City on Broad
> Street. Since replaced by another homogenous
> Applebee's.


Boar's Head

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Texas Toast ()
Date: September 29, 2015 05:07PM

I used to work at Wagon Wheel, where Grevey's is today.

Some fuck stole the front wheel off my bike out back when I was working there one day.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: oold ()
Date: September 29, 2015 06:48PM

DH Wrote:
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> Hey Sleepy, I'm trying to remember if Shakeys took
> up the whole building in the beginning. For some
> reason I think it did, then they split the
> building. Shakeys, later to become Magills was on
> the right side and many different places on the
> left. I remember Horn and Horn, I forgot about the
> Spaghetti Mill and a whole bunch of other places.
>
> Here is an interesting link about Mike Magill
> http://patch.com/virginia/annandale/meet-the-man-b
> ehind-magills


Looks like I'm about a year late, but that building that housed Shakey's, Spaghetti Mill, Magill's, etc was originally an ACME Supermarket. I remember when they built it in the late 50's. My mom shopped there.

That folks, is why it sets far back from the road. Grocery stores usually have large parking lots out front, right?

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Posted by: Sleepy Holla ()
Date: September 29, 2015 07:16PM

@oold...Very cool info....Thanks! Any pics?

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Posted by: Kitten ()
Date: September 02, 2016 12:40AM

I was trying to find an old steakhouse I loved down here and couldn't find it. Thought I was losing my mind. It was Squire Rockwell's. At least now I know why I couldn't find the building and what happened to it. Sad though. I loved that place! :(

Cheers for keeping my sane guys! I could not find it and it was really under my skin.

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Posted by: old school ()
Date: September 02, 2016 07:59AM

yes, caldwells was down next to manny moe and jack, adjacent to a building that had some goodwill/salvation army donation center, a pet shop in the bottom level, and meekins and associates realtors on the top level. it changed to something else after caldwells for a while, and for a while it had sand pit volleyball courts in front where parking was. was hangout for AHS grads that didnt go to kilroys. some time in the early/mid 2000s the koreans finally got their hands on it and it turned into the gaudy garish monstrosity with korean characters splattered across the front. if memory serves, it's vacant now, all dilapidated and shit.

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Posted by: Atom88 ()
Date: September 02, 2016 09:15AM

You are correct Caldwellwas not in the same location as Shakeys. Cal dwells was at 7131 Little River Turnpike, closer to Pep Boys. The volleyball courts came in after it became Main Street USA.
Any one else a member of the Buckaroo Club, referenced earlier in Ravenswoth Shopping Center, great little place in the 70's.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: blanche ()
Date: September 02, 2016 01:06PM

Caldwells was the original site of Shakeys. Shakeys moved to the Old Spaghetti Mills location and then it became Magills.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: lbss82bruin ()
Date: September 02, 2016 01:37PM

Anybody remember the Mystique steak house? It was tucked into a corner of Kings Park shopping center.
Ravensworth shopping center had the Alamo that was a cafeteria style steak house. I remember the Alamo had both kinds of draft beer, light and dark!

"I remember the Alamo" pun intended.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: top sirloin ()
Date: September 02, 2016 01:53PM

lbss82bruin Wrote:
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> Anybody remember the Mystique steak house? It was
> tucked into a corner of Kings Park shopping
> center.
> Ravensworth shopping center had the Alamo that was
> a cafeteria style steak house.

Furr's Cafeteria?

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Back in the day ()
Date: September 02, 2016 07:32PM

steak house Wrote:
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> Brinkleys in 7 Corners.


This was a place to get coke.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Terp4Life ()
Date: September 02, 2016 07:56PM

Sir Walter Raleigh's lives in in Berwyn Heights, MD. It's still 1985 there (except the prices). The restaurant is 30 seconds off the Beltway at the Kennilworth exit.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: scoutzor ()
Date: July 15, 2017 12:40PM

I used to work for Emerson's back in 72-73 and now back in the area, I'd like to revisit some of their locations. Anything left I would recognize?

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Old eateries ()
Date: July 16, 2017 09:27PM

how about Arthur Treacher's? Anybody remember their amazing fish and chips?

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: UXVEP ()
Date: July 16, 2017 10:57PM

Tom Saris' Orleans House, in Roslyn

The Pikestaff, in McLean (where the notorious Pub is now)

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Unit 8 ()
Date: July 18, 2017 04:33AM

you niggers brought back so many feels with this thread.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Ol farter ()
Date: July 19, 2017 08:00AM

Although not a steakhouse, there was a spot next to the giant at little river turnpike, between bowling alley and the Wendy's/McDonald's called "the Black Orchid."

Had the best rib eye!

Always packed no matter what night you went!

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: yeah baybee ()
Date: July 19, 2017 08:38AM

Buckaroo. I remember loving their chocolate pudding when I was a kid.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Chateau Briand ()
Date: July 19, 2017 02:14PM

Ol farter Wrote:
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> Although not a steakhouse, there was a spot next
> to the giant at little river turnpike, between
> bowling alley and the Wendy's/McDonald's called
> "the Black Orchid."
>
> Had the best rib eye!
>
> Always packed no matter what night you went!


The Black Orchid was great, but it was located in the LRT center by the Safeway.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Ol farter ()
Date: July 19, 2017 06:18PM

Chateau Briand Wrote:
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> Ol farter Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Although not a steakhouse, there was a spot
> next
> > to the giant at little river turnpike, between
> > bowling alley and the Wendy's/McDonald's called
> > "the Black Orchid."
> >
> > Had the best rib eye!
> >
> > Always packed no matter what night you went!
>
>
> The Black Orchid was great, but it was located in
> the LRT center by the Safeway.

Thanks! I knew it wasn't a giant but a grocery store. Lebanese Christians owned the place and they are related by marriage to Paisanos and Lebanese Taverna too.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Buckaroo was Great ()
Date: July 19, 2017 07:48PM

At Ravensworth bout 71-72 On The Cheap

Was in Valles one time no steak though.

Emersons at Tysons AYCE steak and cheap mixed drinks and beer at happy hour in the days of Glittering Disco Balls and Disco Dan..LOL That place I think became ..I forget..It was The Joint with the double iron grates over the front doors..a Fern bar of sorts..Lounge Lizards, Disco Mod Squadders..Yuppies..been gone at least 10 years.. Sign of the Whale at Lohmens was a good place too not to expensive Good burgers cheap..steaks too..meatloaf lunchs, drunk salesmen hang out..

DAJAX

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: stake hoses ()
Date: July 19, 2017 09:15PM

I am love stake hose!! Yes pls i am realy love the sizler and also outbak those are the beest that I have ever no!

Have you ben to the one that is has the salad barre the one htat used to bee in arlingtone down bye the metrow stayshion?

I am love that won verie mucyh!!

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Lovable troll ()
Date: July 20, 2017 03:10PM

stake hoses Wrote:
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> I am love stake hose!! Yes pls i am realy love the
> sizler and also outbak those are the beest that I
> have ever no!
>
> Have you ben to the one that is has the salad
> barre the one htat used to bee in arlingtone down
> bye the metrow stayshion?
>
> I am love that won verie mucyh!!

Love your multiple posts doing the whole uneducated/stereotype posts about how a certain peoples speak. Can you do one for the drive thru fagggg at Burger King post?? Something lispy and creepy like the old pedophile in family guy. Your work is excellent!

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Spawn ()
Date: August 08, 2017 07:23PM

When you worked at Phineas II, do you remember a bartender named Cathy Wolff?

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Big dick ()
Date: August 11, 2017 11:09PM

It was called Puffs

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: damien ()
Date: August 23, 2018 05:31PM

Well Brian,

I, too, worked there as a dishwasher, busboy and porter (janitor). I was too young to be working there. I had to get a work permit as well.

This was back in 1971, and in 1972 (permit discarded). I was making about $1.50 and hour.

My brother Bill and our neighborhood friend Irv worked there in the kitchen as "Chefs".

Prime Rib, salads and the famous "Grog" drink were the rage. They even add lobster tails later to the menu.

My manager was Mr. Dupree, a Vietnam vet, who once suffered as a younger man from acne and had a pock marked face.

He also liked to hit on the female staff who worked there as waitresses. Not very PC these days.

One night, I once reached down the disposal to remove a utensil, and it turned out to be serrated steak knife that cut me to bone of my left pinky finger.

I was bleeding like a stuck pig.

Mr. Dupree came in and poured Iodine solution on it and placed a Popsicle stick as a splint and then wrapped it with sterile cloth and duck tape.

After that, he told me to get back to work!

Regarding "located about where the car wash and Mexican restaurant", I think that restaurant was the second Anita's New Mexico style place, after the first one being in Vienna VA.

Last thing:

I switched to construction work the following 2 summers, attended George Mason University in 1975 and then did a 36 years stint in the U.S. government, INTEL community.

Retired in September 2011.

Some more triva:

There was a Emerson's Steak House assistant manager who was murdered in D.C. a few years later (1970's). I think his name was Dale.

He was a victim of a hold up by some former Emerson's employees and refused to open a safe, for that, was stabbed or shot.

I think the kid was a blood relative or son in law of food chains owners.

http://legacy.abc-clio.com/email.aspx?isbn=9781567509892&id=GR3352-1174

"By 1979, Andrew Kopkind of the Village Voice estimated that the number of Disco clubs grew to at least 20,000 and earned over $6 billion per year (13). The reason that the estimates were so high was that just about every club, restaurant, lounge, hotel, or recreation hall opened a Disco. The Emerson Steakhouse franchise in Rockville, Maryland, for example, changed over twelve of its restaurants into Discos."

Cheers!

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: No......... ()
Date: August 23, 2018 06:41PM

Berdhuis Wrote:
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> Anyone remember the name of the steakhouse at
> Oakton Shopping Center from long ago that had the
> little drawbridge you had to cross after you
> opened the front door? There were armored suits
> with axes flanking the drawbridge, too.


Do not remember that at all????

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: True the Vote! ()
Date: August 23, 2018 07:25PM

True The Vote ! Wrote:
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> Ribsters? Annandale.


I was stupid back then, too

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Ronald M ()
Date: August 23, 2018 07:56PM

McDonald's beats them all.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: CUNT FLAP 5 ()
Date: August 23, 2018 09:45PM

Steak and Ale. The building of one has been vacant for over a decade right outside of the Alexandria Professional Center. I wonder if the interior is intact.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Old Shakeys Mill ()
Date: August 23, 2018 10:19PM

blanche Wrote:
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> Caldwells was the original site of Shakeys.
> Shakeys moved to the Old Spaghetti Mills location
> and then it became Magills.

Shakey's existed at the McGills location before Old Spaghetti Mill opened.

(Old Spaghetti Mill was next door, kinda on the side of the building.)

Before that, Shakey's was somewhere else but I don't remember where.
Someplace NE of the current building maybe. Possibly a now demolished building.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Ludwig ()
Date: August 23, 2018 10:31PM

The Real Reason Steakhouses Are Disappearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFbinI0ARBg

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Ya Sure ()
Date: August 23, 2018 10:59PM

> Anyone remember the name of the steakhouse at
> Oakton Shopping Center from long ago that had the
> little drawbridge you had to cross after you
> opened the front door? There were armored suits
> with axes flanking the drawbridge, too.

>Do not remember that at all????

Was some English joint bloke, ez forgotton but the place you describe was up at the top of the hill on Wilson near 7 Corners, where Upton Hill at now

George Lincoln Rockwell's Nazi HQ, how the hell did you describe that hate house so well ? And how the hell old are you bloke ! Got any real teeth left to even eat a steak and corn on the cob! lol

Democrats HQ's will be described as Nazi HQ's if they get the chance to ban any firearms except for military AND POLICE. Known as a POLICE STATE! Not The United States

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: No No Man ()
Date: August 23, 2018 11:06PM

Next door to Shakeys was Horn and Horn Buffet with the fattest people in NOVA hogging out on the great fried chicken, I know man I know I was one of em!

The Mill was another building bro

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Miss it ()
Date: August 24, 2018 05:53AM

>
> Orleans House.

Wow! What great memories!
Started the decline in the late nineties. I think it was sold to new owners that didn’t care much anymore.

Now that corner is a condo.
With arl co cops that barricade that intersection and don’t do shit.
Why are the cops positioned there just standing around?

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Yassss ()
Date: August 21, 2019 08:12PM

Phineas II in Springfield! Great prime rib, chocolate cheesecake and those popovers...bus girl uniforms not so great. Peasant blouse, colorful short panel skirt with ORANGE bloomers!!
Super fun staff and lots of drinking left over wine from the carafes. Hahahaha!!

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Old school ()
Date: August 21, 2019 08:38PM

Don't forget Chesapeake Bay Seafood House in Springfield and Fairfax. They had a very good New York strip steak. It was served alone or with a surf and turf meal. Very tasty.

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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Old school ()
Date: August 21, 2019 08:42PM

It was actually called a Delmonica steak. I still miss this restaurant to this day!
Attachments:
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Re: Old steak houses around NoVa
Posted by: Sweet & Meaty ()
Date: August 21, 2019 09:49PM

^^^Nice! All you can eat crab legs!! Bailey's, Springfield, Gallows et al

Palm

Ruth Chris

Sam & Harry's (now Woo Lae Oak)

Wildfire

Morton's (gone)

Capital Grille

Landry's (gone)

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