The post I was responding to listed bartaco as a fancy city dweller restaurant. It’s a chain and we have one here out in the hinterlands.

While GAR is a “chain” many of them are the only one of that concept. I also used to enjoy Carlyle when I lived in Shirlington. They aren’t TGI Fridays or Applebee’s

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Anonymous wrote:There is a Bartaco in Reston Town Center. So good.

We have several of the Great American Restaurants out this direction. I think they are quite good. My favorite is Coastal Flats at Fairfax Corner, although Jackson’s in RTC is also great.

There it is folks!

And you, PP, are the kind of person we out in nowhere land hope does NOT move next door to us. Snootiness is not welcome in the land of boring contentment.

That said, yes kind of funny all the good restaurants listed were chains.