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{ReseRvations Recommended–always fRee} Wine, food, and love, three things that go together and warm your heart. Gather with friends and get warm with us. The winter is delightful whether you’re next to a toasty fire pit or tucked inside our heated pavilion.

Special Valentine Charcuterie Box including a bottle of Sparkling Doukénie Wine by CharGoaterie & Co. are available for pre-order thru www.exploretock.com/doukeniewinery.

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visit our website for musical performances on our event calendar along with scheduled food vendors.

Please check us on-line for current COVID guidelines.

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Saturday + Sunday 11 - 6 p.m.

Monday – Closed

foR ReseRvations go to: www.doukeniewineRy.com · Exclusive seating for guests with children and/ or dogs at Adirondack chairs with fire pits along pond, reservations recommended · Outside food not allowed

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Area Valentine’s Day activities include Lost Barrel Brewing’s offering of a day of beer and beautiful blooms on Feb. 13 near Middleburg.

Celebrating Love in Loudoun

BY VISIT LOUDOUN

It’s not just couples who should have all the fun this Valentine’s Day. It’s the season of love and to celebrate everyone from your kids to grandparents and friends. Thanks to our fictional friend Leslie Knope, we even have Galentine’s Day on February 13—a celebration of female friendship in all its forms.

So how best to enjoy this month dedicated to showering our friends and family with love?

For Galentine’s Day, pamper your girlfriends in style at King Spa, a sprawling new Korean wellness emporium in South Riding. A day pass for as little as $60 gets you access to state-ofthe-art steam rooms, saunas, thermal baths and a vast rooftop swimming pool complex replete with waterfalls and hot tubs. Treatments— massages and facials—are extra. The gals will love you forever.

What about a day with the kids? Stay warm and indoors at popular DIY space AR Workshop in The Village at Leesburg where you and your little ones get to create everything from porch signs to canvas bags to wall hangings. Order the workshop’s Valentine’s DIY To Go Kit in advance (a pack of stencils, wood, paint and brushes) and you can all craft decorative pieces for V-day gifts.

make apple wine from heirloom apples but also produce high, antioxidant non-alcoholic Honeyberry Juice, an Elderberry and Aronia Lemonade and a green tea made from Elderberry and Aronia honey. Drinks the whole family can enjoy. Wine tastings will never be the same again.

Of course, you don’t want to forget your partner. With Valentine’s Day on a Monday, why not celebrate a day early. Lost Barrel Brewing in Middleburg will host a “beer and beautiful blooms” day February 13. While you treat yourselves to pints of superb Harvest Ale and Amber IPA—or a glass of wine—Loudoun florist Blooms2u will be on site with fresh seasonal flowers and to share tips on how to make the perfect floral arrangement. After, enjoy a romantic dinner in town.

Then there are the grandparents. Give them a treat by taking them and the grandkids bowling.

Newly opened The Branch in Leesburg is a retro-style bowling alley with 16 lanes, each named for a Loudoun town or village. Show your skills like The Dude on the lanes and then treat the family to nachos, wings, chili cheese fries and juicy burgers at the site’s buzzy restaurant-bar.

For more ways to celebrate the season of love, check out visitloudoun.org

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Chef Tuk Gurung displays some of his dishes in the dining room at Himalayan Wild Yak, a new restaurant in Brambleton Town Center.

A Taste of Nepal in Brambleton

BY JAN MERCKER

In search of the perfect protein? 2022 might be the perfect year to give yak a try.

A trio of seasoned DMV restaurateurs are serving up yak dishes and other Nepalese favorites at the Wild Himalayan Yak, which opened in Brambleton last week.

Brambleton resident Dip Raj Jarga Magar runs the front of the house while his brother Keshar Jarga and their business partner Tuk Gurung are behind the restaurant’s kitchen and bar programs.

Magar and Gurung have worked together for years and opened the popular Royal Nepal restaurant in Alexandria. When it was time to launch a new project, they wanted a bigger space. And Magar knew his own neighborhood 4

fit the bill perfectly. The partners found a twostory, 5,000-square-foot space in Brambleton Town Center, formerly the home to the Lost Rhino Retreat.

“It’s a great location for us,” Magar said.

The restaurant also fills a niche for Nepalese cuisine in Ashburn and, to Magar’s knowledge, is the only place in the county where diners can order yak, which he hopes will become the restaurant’s claim to fame.

“Yak meat is the healthiest meat on the planet,” Magar said.

Yaks, also called “mountain cows,” are known for their exceptionally lean meat. But it’s also high in Omega-3 oils, which keep it tender and juicy.

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Yak meat is the healthiest meat on the planet TASTE OF NEPAL

Magar sources U.S.-raised yak from farms in several states. And a Pennsylvania yak farm was the source of the restaurant’s mascot: a towering taxidermized yak named Rocky.

Magar is looking forward to introducing fellow Loudouners to cuisine from his native Nepal, a small mountain nation bordered by India to the south and China to the north. And there are influences from both cultures on Nepalese cuisine, he says.

“We’re a very small country, and we’re heavily influenced by both sides.”

Overall, Nepalese dishes are most similar to northern Indian cuisine, he adds, but a little lighter on the spice.

In addition to 18-hour marinated braised yak, Wild Himalayan Yak offers a range of more familiar fare, including curries, butter chicken, biryani and fried rice.

Magar also sources yak butter from Mongolia (very few farms in the U.S. are licensed to raise yaks for dairy products) to use in several signature dishes.

The new restaurant is made for dining in, with a spacious bar and lounge area, craft and classic beers on tap, inviting wine and cocktail lists and photo ops with Rocky.

Magar’s brother Keshar Jarga, who is trained as a chef and previously worked as a bartender at the Watergate Hotel, runs the bar program.

Magar has also done sommelier classes and says there’s nothing like a robust Napa Valley cabernet to pair with a yak dish.

“Rocky,” a taxidermized wild yak, greets guests at the entrance to Himalayan Wild Yak in Brambleton Town Center.

in 2010. He worked at DC’s Four Seasons Hotel and Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt Washington, where he met Gurung. The partners opened the highly rated Royal Nepal in Alexandria in 2017.

“I always had a dream to have my own restaurant featuring our Nepalese cuisine,” Magar said.

Magar and Gurung sold their shares in Royal Nepal to launch the new venture. Opening a 5,000-square-foot restaurant during a pandemic is a gamble, Magar said, but it comes with the territory in the restaurant business. And he’s counting on Loudoun’s unquenchable curiosity and appetite for cool new cuisines.

“Obviously the pandemic has been very challenging. But at the same time, I’m optimistic about the coming days,” he said. “We’ve been through most of the difficult times, and I’m very hopeful that it will be better.”

Himalayan Wild Yak is located at 22885 Brambleton Plaza, Ashburn.

For more information and to check out a menu, go to himalayanwildyak.com.

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50 West Vineyards 39060 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg 50westvineyards.com 8 Chains North Winery 38593 Daymont Ln., Waterford, VA 8chainsnorth.com 868 Estate Vineyards 14001 Harpers Ferry Rd., Purcellville 868estatevineyards.com The Barns at Hamilton Station 16804 Hamilton Station Rd., Hamilton thebarnsathamiltonstation.com Bleu Frog Vineyards 16413 James Monroe Hwy, Leesburg bleufrogvineyards.com Bluemont Vineyard 18755 Foggy Bottom Rd., Bluemont bluemontvineyard.com Bogati Winery 35246 Harry Byrd Hwy., Round Hill bogatiwinery.com Boxwood Estate Winery 2042 Burrland Rd., Middleburg boxwoodwinery.com Breaux Vineyards 36888 Breaux Vineyards Ln., Hillsboro breauxvineyards.com

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35226 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro bozwines.com Cana Vineyards of Middleburg 38600 John Mosby Hwy., Middleburg canavineyards.com Carriage House Wineworks 40817 Brown Lane, Waterford chwwinery.com Casanel Vineyards 17952 Canby Rd., Leesburg casanelvineyards.com Chrysalis Vineyards 39025 John Mosby Hwy., Aldie chrysaliswine.com Corcoran Vineyards & Cider 14635 Corkys Farm Ln., Waterford corcoranvineyards.com Creek’s Edge Winery 41255 Annas Ln., Lovettsville creeksedgewinery.com Crushed Cellars 37938 Charles Town Pike, Purcellville crushedcellars.com Doukenie Winery 14727 Mountain Rd., Hillsboro doukeniewinery.com

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18195 Dry Mill Rd., Leesburg drymillwine.com Eagletree Farm & Vineyards 15100 Harrison Hill Lane, Leesburg eagletreevineyards.com Endhardt Vineyards 19600 Lincoln Road, Purcellville endhardtvineyards.com Fabbioli Cellars 15669 Limestone School Rd., Leesburg fabbioliwines.com Firefly Cellars 40325 Charles Town Pike, Hamilton fireflycellars.com Fleetwood Farm Winery 23075 Evergreen Mills Rd., Leesburg fleetwoodfarmwinery.com Forever Farm & Vineyards 15779 Woodgrove Road, Purcellville foreverfarmandvineyard.com Greenhill Winery & Vineyards 23595 Winery Ln., Middleburg greenhillvineyards.com Hidden Brook Winery 43301 Spinks Ferry Rd., Leesburg hiddenbrookwinery.com

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12202 Axline Rd., Lovettsville hiddencroftvineyards.com Lost Creek Winery 43285 Spinks Ferry Rd., Leesburg lostcreekwinery.com Maggie Malick Wine Caves 12138 Harpers Ferry Rd., Hillsboro maggiemalickwinecaves.com Old Farm Winery 23583 Fleetwood Road, Aldie oldfarmwineryhartland.com Otium Cellars 18050 Tranquility Rd., Purcellville otiumcellars.com Stone Tower Winery 19925 Hogback Mountain Rd., L’burg stonetowerwinery.com

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36580 Shoemaker School Rd., Purcellville stonehousemeadery.com Sunset Hills Vineyard 38295 Fremont Overlook Ln, Purcellville sunsethillsvineyard.com Tarara Winery 13648 Tarara Ln, Leesburg tarara.com Terra Nebulo 39892 Old Wheatland Rd., Waterford terranebulo.com Three Creeks Winery 18548 Harmony Church Road, Hamilton 3creekswinery.com Two Twisted Posts Winery 12944 Harpers Ferry Rd., Hillsboro twotwistedposts.com

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40405 Browns Lane, Waterford villagewineryandvineyards.com Willowcroft Farm Vineyards 38906 Mount Gilead Rd., Leesburg willowcroftwine.com The Wine Reserve at Waterford 38516 Charles Town Pike, Waterford waterfordwinereserve.com Walsh Family Wine 16031 Hillsboro Rd., Purcellville northgatevineyard.com Williams Gap Vineyards 35785 Sexton Farm Lane, Round Hill williamsgavineyard.com Zephaniah Farm Vineyard 19381 Dunlop Mill Rd., Leesburg zephwine.com

BREWERIES 1 Adroit Theory Brewing 404 Browning Ct., Purcellville adroit-theory.com

2 B Chord Brewing Company 34266 Williams Gap Rd., Round Hill bchordbrewing.com

3 Barnhouse Brewery 43271 Spinks Ferry Rd., Leesburg barnhousebrewery.com

4 Bear Chase Brewing 33665 Bear Chase Ln., Bluemont bearchasebrew.com

5 Belly Love Brewing Company 725 E. Main St., Purcellville bellylovebrewing.com

6 Beltway Brewing Company 22620 Davis Dr. Ste 110, Sterling beltwaybrewco.com

7 Black Hoof Brewing Company 11 South King St., Leesburg blackhoofbrewing.com

8 Black Walnut Brewery 210 S. King St., Leesburg blackwalnutbrewery.com

9 Crooked Run Brewing Central 22455 Davis Dr., Sterling crookedrunbrewing.com

10 Crooked Run Brewing Market Station, Leesburg crookedrunbrewing.com

11 Dirt Farm Brewing 18701 Foggy Bottom Rd., Bluemont dirtfarmbrewing.com

12 Dynasty Brewing Company 21140 Ashburn Crossing Drive, Ashburn 101 Loudoun St, SE, Leesburg dynastybrewing.com

13 Flying Ace Farm 40950 Flying Ace Ln, Lovettsville flyingacefarm.com

14 Harper’s Ferry Brewing 37412 Adventure Ctr. Lane, Hillsboro harpersferrybrewing.com 15 Harvest Gap Brewery 15485 Purcellville Road, Hillsboro facebook.com/HarvestGap

16 House 6 Brewing 4427 Atwater Dr., Ashburn house6brewing.com

17 Lost Barrel Brewing 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg lostbarrel.com

18 Lost Rhino Brewing Company 21730 Red Rum Rd. #142, Ashburn lostrhino.com

19 Loudoun Brewing Company 310 E. Market St., Leesburg loudounbrewing.com

20 Ocelot Brewing Company 23600 Overland Dr., #180, Dulles ocelotbrewing.com

21 Old 690 Brewing Company 15670 Ashbury Church Rd., Hillsboro old690.com

22 Old Ox Brewery 44652 Guilford Dr., Ste 114, Ashburn oldoxbrewery.com

23 Old Ox Brewery Middleburg 14 S Madison St, Middleburg, VA

24 Phase 2 Brewing 19382 Diamond Lake Dr, Lansdowne Phase2Brewing.com

25 Rocket Frog Brewing Company 22560 Glenn Dr. #103, Sterling rocketfrogbeer.com

26 Solace Brewing Company 42615 Trade West Dr., Sterling solacebrewing.com

27 Sweetwater Tavern 45980 Waterview Plaza, Sterling greatamericanrestaurants.com

28 The Craft of Brewing 21140 Ashburn Crossing Dr., Ashburn thecraftob.com

29 Twinpanzee Brewing Co. 101 Executive Dr., Sterling twinpanzee.com

30 Vanish Farmwoods Brewery 42245 Black Hops Ln., Lucketts vanishbeer.com

31 Wheatland Springs Farm 38454 John Wolford Rd., Waterford

BREWERIES & WINERIES 1 Hillsborough Brewery & Vineyards 36716 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro hillsboroughwine.com

2 Notaviva Brewery and Winery 13274 Sagle Rd., Hillsboro notavivavineyards.com

3 Quattro Goomba’s Brewery & Winery 22860 James Monroe Hwy., Aldie goombawine.com

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Some of artist Deborah Morbeto’s work is on display inside the Visit Loudoun offices in Leesburg’s Market Station.

The Vivid World of Deborah Morbeto Visit Loudoun Hosts Leesburg Artist’s Latest Show

BY JAN MERCKER

A touch of whimsy, a splash of kitsch and plenty of heart and soul. Leesburg-based artist Deborah Morbeto has brought color, verve, and an eclectic style to the Loudoun arts scene for more than 20 years.

A selection of Morbeto’s lighter fare, full of charming images and fun text, is on display at the Visit Loudoun visitors center in downtown Leesburg through the end of February.

As the Visit Loudoun show went up, Morbeto was remembering her friend and mentor, the late Loudoun arts maven Gale Waldron, who died in 2018.

“I didn’t really realize how much of an impact [Gale] had until much later. … She had been such a huge part of creating an art world in Loudoun. When she gave me the 10

encouragement she did, it helped me more than I realized.”

Morbeto is part of a group of Leesburg artists working through the Friends of Leesburg Public Arts to cement the town’s growing reputation as an arts destination with hopes of recreating an “ArtSquare 2.0” modeled after Waldron’s beloved gallery, studio and teaching space.

Morbeto grew up near Boston and credits her mother and her first art teacher for inspiring her artistic path. She was motivated by a private teacher who recognized her talent and had her painting in oils at age 11.

Morbeto attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Even then her interests were eclectic from film photography to ceramics to glass blowing and art history.

And her passion for the Modern Art period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries shines through in her work. Art school was also where she established her ongoing commitment to making art every single day.

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“I am body and soul dedicated to this practice on a daily basis,” Morbeto said.

Morbeto’s work has shifted and matured over the years. She says she’s always thought of herself as a painter but in recent years has experimented with collage and mixed media, as showcased in the small-scale pieces at the Visit Loudoun show.

Morbeto moved to Loudoun in the ’90s and worked in marketing and graphic design. She and her husband built their home in Leesburg in 1999. Morbeto shifted gears when her son, now in his 20s, was born, leaving her day job to focus on parenting and building a career as a working artist.

Photo by Renss Greene In her early days in Leesburg, Morbeto found Deborah Morbeto has been involved with Waldron’s Gallery 222/Loudoun Academy of Loudoun’s arts scene for more than two the Arts on King Street, which later became decades.

ArtSquare. Morbeto applied for and scored a studio space on King Street and moved with the organization to a larger studio space on Cardinal “This is our forever home and I want to Park Drive. The 2000s were a high-energy period of teaching, working hard, spending time capitalize on the fact that I’ve lived here and with fellow artists and showcasing her work. But have a lot of really incredible contacts and great ArtSquare shut its doors in 2014 when funding friends and really be a part of what makes us an art destination in the future,” she said. dried up.

Morbeto remains involved with Friends of Since then, Morbeto’s art has become part of her healing and growth process as she grappled Leesburg Public Arts, which helped make the connection for the Visit Loudoun show, in its with her mother’s death before the pandemic and a new phase of her life with her husband as push to move Leesburg forward as an arts empty nesters. She said her daily practice hasn’t destination.

changed during the pandemic, but she has used it as an impetus to push herself to explore new media and styles.

“We’ve become an arts destination. … With that, we really need something like ArtSquare,” she said. “The town is ready to try again.”

“What changed during the pandemic was that I specifically challenged myself to learn to work with watercolors and to work with portraiture– two of my weak points.”

Her focus on portraiture inspired a new series of colorful figurative pieces with abstract elements.

“Out of that grew this incredible body of work that I didn’t expect. Like most art, it just happened. I didn’t push it or force it. … It’s turned into this whimsical series of characters.”

Morbeto said she and her husband considered leaving Leesburg when their son left home. But she reflected on her network of friends and fellow artists and decided to stay and build on her artistic foundation.

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To check out Deborah Morbeto’s work, go to thedebweb.com or follow her on Instagram at @deborahmorbetofineart.

The Visit Loudoun visitors center is located on the ground floor of Market Station in Leesburg, at 112 South St SE. For more information on Friends of Leesburg Public Arts, go to leesburgpublicarts.org.

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A piece by Leesburg artist Forrest Holbert on exhibit at Balch Library

Forrest Holbert Exhibit on Display at Balch Library A new exhibit from Leesburg artist and graphic designer Forrest Holbert is available for viewing at Thomas Balch Library.

Holbert’s portfolio comprises a wide range of media including drawings, paintings, trompe l’oeil, prints, and digital media. He studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and while there was a recipient of the Neil Jenney scholarship.

The exhibit, presented by Friends of Leesburg Public Arts, will be available to view from January to March in the meeting room on the lower level and at the digital kiosk in the Divine Room on the main floor.

FOLPA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide funding, advocacy, and volunteer services for a variety of projects, programs, and events that foster the growth of the arts and culture in Leesburg.

Thomas Balch Library is located at 208 W. Market St. in Leesburg.

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Loudoun’s Attractions 

LOUDOUN HERITAGE FARM MUSEUM Travel through time to meet the 10 generations of Loudoun County residents who built this county and left their mark on the land. Exhibits include a schoolhouse, general store, Native American artifact display and the American Workhorse Museum Collection.

21668 Heritage Farm Lane, Sterling, VA 20164 (571) 258-3800 • heritagefarmmuseum.org

LOUDOUN MUSEUM With a collection of more than 8,000 artifacts, the museum tells Loudoun’s story over its 260-year history, with an ever-changing selection of special exhibits on Native American settlements, World War II memorabilia, the county’s role in the Civil Wars, along with displays of antique clothing and furniture.

16 Loudoun Street SW Leesburg, Virginia 20175 (703) 777-7427 • loudounmuseum.org

MORVEN PARK Morven Park is a 1,000-acre historic estate on the edge of Leesburg that was home to Virginia governor and agricultural pioneer Westmoreland Davis. Tours of the Greek Revival mansion include 16th century Belgian tapestries, Spanish cassones, hundreds of silver pieces, Hudson River Valley paintings, and Asian treasures. The estate also features the Winmill Carriage Museum, the Museum of Hounds and Hunting of North America, formal boxwood gardens, miles of hiking and riding trails, and athletic fields.

17195 Southern Planter Lane Leesburg, VA 20176 703-777-2414 • morvenpark.org

OATLANDS HISTORIC HOUSE & GARDENS The 415-acre Oatlands estate, owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, offers tours of the historic mansion, extensive gardens and outbuildings that include the oldest standing greenhouse in the South. Exhibits focus on the lives of the Carter and Eustis families who building the estate, as well as the lives of enslaved people who lived and worked there.

20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg, VA 20175 703.777.3174 • oatlands.org

* During the COVID-19 pandemic, many venues have limited hours of operations and special requirements such as advance reservations. It is best to call ahead before making your visit.

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BEST BETS Virginia, known for their alt-country, Celtic, and folk-infused indie rock. Though some of the band members have changed through the years, Carbon Leaf has been consistently creating and performing music since the early 1990s.

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02.05.22 JASON MASI Saturday, Feb. 5 Doukénie Winery doukeniewinery.com American Folk/rock singer-songwriter and musician. Jason is known for his roots rock and acoustic soul/R&B sound.

02.12.22 LONESOME RYDER BAND Saturday, Feb. 12, 5 p.m.

Lost Barrel Brewing lostbarrel.com The Lonesome Ryder Band specializes in covers of modern country, classic rock, southern rock, oldies and more.

Friday, Feb. 25, 6 p.m.

Franklin Park Arts Center franklinparkartcenter.org The next round in the annual Battle of the Bands event featuring teen performers competing for a spot in the final concert.

02.26.22 LOST CORNER VAGABONDS Saturday, Feb. 26, 2-5 p.m.

Doukénie Winery doukeniewinery.com A band of local favorites offer familiar music, completely played.

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02.19.22 CARBON LEAF Saturday, Feb. 14 7 p.m. (doors) Tally Ho Theater tallyhousetheater.com Carbon Leaf is a quintet from Richmond, 14

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FORDS FISH SHACK Consistently voted Loudoun residents’ favorite place for seafood, Ford’s offers fresh seafood in a family-dining atmosphere at three locations, as well as a catering arm and a food truck operation.

Ashburn-44260 Ice Rink Plaza, Ashburn, VA 20147 (571) 918-4092 • fordsfishshack.com Lansdowne-19308 Promenade Dr., Leesburg, VA 20176 (571) 333-1301 • fordsfishshack.com South Riding 25031 Riding Plaza, Chantilly, VA 20152 (703) 542-7520 • fordsfishshack.com

SPANKY’S SHENANIGANS Known as one of the Loudoun’s favorite bars, Spanky’s Shenanigans is a popular destination from its morning breakfast menu to its ample roster of live music performers.

538 E Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176 (703) 777-2454 • spankyspub.com

LIGHTFOOT RESTAURANT Inside an historic bank building in downtown Leesburg, the Zagat-rated Lightfoot provides both a fine-dining experience and a gathering place for locals. Executive Chef Ingrid Gustavson serves up American cuisine with southern and ethnic accents.

11 North King Street Leesburg, VA 20176 703-771-2233 • lightfootrestaurant.com

TUSCARORA MILL Known by locals as Tuskies, the restaurant is located inside a restored 19th century grain mill in Leesburg’s historic district. Offering everything from locally sourced fine dining to a casual bar experience, it’s been a dining destination for more than three decades.

203 Harrison St SE, Leesburg, VA 20175 (703) 771-9300 • tuskies.com

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