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Capital One Center in Tysons will soon welcome five new restaurants, including a street-level pub from Starr Hill Brewery to go along with the Crozet, Virginia, craft beermaker’s rooftop “biergarten” that opened in the building two years ago.
Starr Hill said this week it will lease 7,572 square feet for its new restaurant, which will feature two separate bars with more than 20 beers on tap and what it described as “high-quality pub fare” from its newly hired executive chef, Steve Winterling. The new pub, at 7730 Capital One Tower Road, will have seating for more than 225 customers both inside and on its outdoor patio.
In announcing the expansion, Starr Hill also said it's planning to upgrade the menu at its Starr Hill Biergarten, located at The Perch, the outdoor park and entertainment venue on the 11th floor of the tower that also includes bocce courts, a miniature golf course and a dog park. The new menu will debut next month, the company said.
Capital One Center opened in 2021 and is home to Capital One Financial Corp.’s (NYSE: COF) global headquarters, the newly opened Watermark Hotel and the concert venue Capital One Hall. Once fully built out, it will have about 250,000 square feet of retail space.
Joining Starr Hill on the street level of the 3 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex will be restaurants Sisters Thai, Ox & Rye, Stellina Pizzeria and Ometeo.
For Stellina, the Tysons location will be its fourth in Greater Washington and for Sisters it will be its fifth and largest in the region. Like its Old Town Alexandria restaurant, it will feature an outpost of its Magnolia Dessert Bar and Coffee
Ox & Rye will feature American fare from Wooden Nickel Bar Co., the restaurant group behind Arlington’s Copperwood Tavern and Quinn’s on the Corner, and Ometeo is a Tex-Mex concept from Long Shot Hospitality Group, which owns Dauphine’s and The Salt Line.
Stellina, Sisters, Ox & Rye and Ometeo are expected to open this year and the Starr Hill Brewery will open in 2024.
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June 28 — That’s when not one, but two new grocery stores in D.C. will open their doors. Discount grocer Lidl will open its second location in the District, a 27,00-square-foot outpost at the D.C. USA shopping center in Columbia Heights. Its first D.C. location opened at Skyland Town Center in September. Also arriving that day will be the 47,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market in The Hartley apartment building at the Parks at Walter Reed. It will be the Amazon-owned grocer's seventh location in the District.
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