Anonymous wrote:Wait Clarendon was cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

haha this is pretty accurate

Wait Clarendon was cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

Ballston is way cooler now. Agree they need live music in Ballston bars and then it will be way cooler than Clarendon ever was.

Ballston is already trying to push back and make it family destination/entertainment but too many hip places for millennials will win out.

Became all families and kids. Ruining the cool factor.

As prices go up the young people get pushed further out.

Anonymous wrote:It has nothing interesting there. The restaurants are mediocre, the stores cookie cutter, and the bars sloppy. Ballston has replaced it.

We ate at a hole in wall kabob place. Cheap, and pretty good. Last store I was in there was Trek cycles, seemed fine to me. Last time I drank there was at Heritage brewpub. Did not seem sloppy to me, and they gave one of my party, who didn't drink, a free mocktail.

I guess I'm a hopeless rube.

Clarendon was going downhill 10 years ago.

It has nothing interesting there. The restaurants are mediocre, the stores cookie cutter, and the bars sloppy. Ballston has replaced it.

Last time I was in Clarendon it seemed to be hopping.

Anonymous wrote:It moved 1.5 miles west to Ballston. That area/mall is actually cool now.

+1 Ballston Quarter has some good restaurants. Lots of young people roaming about. Parking is easier too. I hate going to Clarendon for anything because of the parking and traffic.

It moved 1.5 miles west to Ballston. That area/mall is actually cool now.

It became kind of weird, what with constant vacancies, a persistent homeless population, and no new interesting retail. It has a good location. There’s nothing there that “moms” would really like, but it does seem that some kids gym is coming, seven years too late, I’m afraid.

Lyon village moms killed it

Yup, it is no longer cool.

They have been priced out and the demographic is changing.

Has it totally died as a place for younger people to go out? It seems like a lot of the bars are closing and there is no live music anymore.