Best Buns Bakery and Cafe recently opened in Tysons during Memorial Day weekend.
Similar to Best Buns Bread Company in Arlington, the spacious bakery and cafe serves up burgers, cold and hot sandwiches, artisan breads, pastries and salads. Drinks on the menu include milkshakes, coffee and sodas.
Best Buns opened on Saturday (May 25) at 8051 Leesburg Pike.
The bakery is the first of three Great American Restaurants to open in the former Chili’s spot. An employee said Patsy’s American is set to open early Friday (May 31) evening. Meanwhile, Randy’s Prime Seafood and Steaks will debut in June, Eater reported.
Best Buns in Tysons is open from 6 a.m.-9 p.m. on weekdays and from 7 a.m.-9 p.m. on weekends. The spot features indoor and outdoor seating.
Lady M Cake Boutique is extending its pop-up in Tysons Galleria while it finds a permanent spot in the mall.
The cake boutique opened in December on the third level of the shopping center in A Taste of Urbanspace (2001 International Drive). The pop-up was originally slated to last until February.
But the cake boutique is still there. A Facebook post says that the pop-up is extended through September.
“We will remain at Tysons Galleria, and look forward to having a permanent boutique soon (location and opening date TBA),” the post says.
An employee told Tysons Reporter that the boutique is eyeing a space on the second level of the Tysons Galleria.
During May, the boutique’s Facebook says the shop will offer a selection of classic and seasonal cakes:
In addition to Signature and Green Tea Mille Crêpes, we are now featuring the inimitable Earl Grey, Passion Fruit and Salted Caramel Mille Crêpes. Fan favorites like Checkers, Chocolate Arc-en-Ciel and Gateau aux Marrons are also available.
Lady M will is open from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. from Monday-Saturday, then 12-6 p.m. on Sunday.
A man was robbed and abducted on Sunday night, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Police said that three men confronted a man who was meeting someone to sell an item on a website at 10:25 p.m. on Sunday (May 26). The incident took place at 8111 Leesburg Pike.
“They demanded money and drove the victim to several locations to withdraw more cash,” according to the police report.
The police report gave the following descriptions of the suspects:
All three suspects were described as Middle Eastern men in their 20s. The first man was wearing a white T-shirt and had black facial hair. The second man was described as skinny, wearing a black T-shirt, black pants and black hair. The third man was wearing a red hat, green shorts and had black hair.
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(Updated at 9:15 a.m.) Fairfax County police arrested a man early this morning, ending an eight-hour-long barricade situation that closed Old Dominion Drive in McLean.
Police responded yesterday (May 28) to a home around 4:30 p.m. in the 6300 block of Old Dominion Drive after a family member reported an assault, the police department tweeted at 7:04 p.m.
“The victim was able to leave the house. 25-year-old Sean Price, of McLean, refused to come out and barricaded himself in the home,” according to a press release.
Police contained the scene while crisis negotiators and tactical officers worked to “peacefully resolve the situation,” the press release said.
Police arrested Price and charged him with assault and violation of a protective order around 12:30 a.m. today (May 29), ending the barricade that closed Old Dominion Drive between Valley Avenue and Kirby Road.
Old Dominion Dr between Valley Ave and Kirby Rd is closed. Please use an alternate route. The media staging area will be at Old Dominion Dr at Kirby Rd but please park in the lot of 6263-B Old Dominion Dr. #FCPDhttps://t.co/TvT4Y3Hwlg
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) May 28, 2019
Map via Google Maps and image via Twitter
Indie pop band Echosmith is one of the groups set to perform in the 2019 Summer Concert Series outside Tysons Corner Center.
The line-up for the free summer concerts in The Plaza outside the mall was recently revealed today (Tuesday). The concerts featuring iHeartRadio artists all take place on Fridays in June.
The schedule is the following:
- June 7: Tucker Beathard
- June 14: Thompson Square
- June 21: Echosmith
- June 28: Tauren Wells
Best known for their 2013 single “Cool Kids,” Echosmith was started by a quartet of siblings. In March, the band released their newest single, “Favorite Sound.”
Tucker Beathard is a singer-songwriter who released a country album called “Nobody’s Everything” last year and a single this year called “Better Than Me.”
Grammy-nominated Thompson Square is a country duo, whose 2018 comeback album “Masterpiece” album gave fans a glimpse into the married couple’s personal lives.
Tauren Wells, a Grammy-nominated Christian rock and pop artist, recently dropped his “God’s Not Done With You” single in April.
Photo via Twitter
The Weekly Planner is a roundup of interesting events coming up over the next week in the Tysons area.
We’ve scoured the web for events of note in Tysons, Vienna, Merrifield, McLean and Falls Church. Know of any we’ve missed? Tell us!
Tuesday (May 28)
- Ice Cream Solves Everything Run — 6:30-8 p.m. at the Potomac River Running Store (111 W. Maple Avenue) — The Vienna Run Club will run 4-, 5- or 6-mile routes tonight, followed by free ice cream at an ice cream bar and in-store beverages. Runners that try-out Saucony footwear will earn a raffle ticket for a chance to win some giveaways.
Wednesday (May 29)
- Free Yoga in the Park — every Wednesday until Aug. 28 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Strawberry Park (2910 District Avenue) — Spark Yoga will guide free outdoor yoga in the Mosaic District this summer. All levels of yoga experience are welcome.
- “The Lady from Shanghai” — 7 p.m. at the Angelika Film Center (2911 District Avenue) — The last movie in the Film Noir Series at the Angelika Film Center screens tomorrow. The plot is about a seaman who gets implicated in a murder after he starts working on a yacht.
Friday (May 31)
- URBNMarket Mosaic — 3 p.m. at Strawberry Park (2910 District Avenue) — More than 25 local makers and collectors will sell handmade and vintage items at the pop-up market in the Mosaic District.
- “Wine & Wanderlust” — 7-10 p.m. at Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner (7901 Tysons One Place) — The McLean Project for the Arts and Total Wine & More are hosting an evening of wine sampling from more than 100 winemakers. Tickets are $100 per person and include wine-tastings, heavy appetizers and music.
- Paint Nite at Tysons Biergarten — every Friday until October from 7-10 p.m. at Tysons Biergarten (8346 Leesburg Pike) — For two hours and $37 per person, attendees can follow a guide in creating a painting.
Saturday (June 1)
- Lewinsville Center Ribbon-Cutting — 10 a.m.-noon at Lewinsville Center (1613 Great Falls Street) — Dranesville District Supervisor John Foust will help celebrate the opening of the new Lewinsville Center. The intergenerational facility will house the Lewinsville Senior Center, Adult Day Health Care and two child day care centers.
- NoBetterOff Concert — 7-10 p.m. at Art and Frame of Falls Church (205 W. Jefferson Street) — NoBetterOff, an acoustic Americana band made up of five Northern Virginia artists, will perform. Monroe Bay Vineyards will be at the concert with a selection of Virginia wines. Tickets are $10 at the door.
Sunday (June 2)
- Tysons Farmers Market — every Sunday through November from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at 8400 Westpark Drive — The weekly farmers market features local produce, meats, eggs, hot foods, baked goods and more. In addition to food, attendees can enjoy live music, cooking demonstrations and kids events. The market accepts SNAP and matching on all SNAP purchases.
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McLean Student Wins Contest to Study in Spain — “Ethan H., an 11th-grader at BASIS Independent McLean, has won the 2019 Junior Study Abroad Scholarship and will travel to Spain this summer. This national award, valued at more than $3,500, is given each year to 24 students nationally who become eligible by earning high scores on the National Spanish Examination.” [Inside NoVa]
Look Back at Falls Church’s Memorial Day — Missed the City of Falls Church’s parade and festival during the weekend or want to relive it? This article describes what it was like to be there with the young families who joined veterans and active service men and women to honor fallen service members. [WJLA]
Vienna Mom Qualifies For Olympic Trials — Perry Shoemaker, a 48-year-old Vienna resident, is the second-oldest woman to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials.”Shoemaker’s journey to Olympic Trials qualifier started back in about 2011, when the family moved from Pittsburgh to their current home in Vienna… she did most of her runs pushing a jogging stroller and holding a dog on a leash.” [Runner’s World]
Tysons Restaurant Makes OpenTable List — Founding Farmers in Tysons made it onto OpenTable’s 2019 list of 100 best restaurants in America for a “big night out.” [Patch]
Falls Church Crash Injuries Five People — On Saturday, four pedestrians and the driver were taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries following a crash in a parking lot along Annandale Road in Falls Church. [Twitter]
Tysons Building at Full Capacity — “A new 150,000 square foot lease with an undisclosed company has capped off Rubenstein Partners and Griffith Properties’ lease up program for their jointly-owned building, Centerstone at Tysons. The single transaction brought the newly-renovated building to full occupancy. Rubenstein and Griffith acquired Centerstone at Tysons, located at 1550 Westbranch Dr., in July 2015.” [GlobeSt]
Photo via Founding Farmerres
A lawn mower key reported to the Vienna police as stolen was later found buried in the dirt.
A Vienna resident in the 100 block of Hickory Circle SW reported on Wednesday, May 15, that the key to his lawn mower was stolen between 5:30-7:08 p.m.
“It was located in the dirt underneath plants that were close to the lawnmower,” Juan Vazquez, a spokesman for the Vienna Police Department, told Tysons Reporter.
Photo via Facebook
The aftermath of the storm yesterday (Thursday) has left more than 1,300 residents around Falls Church without power and caused several road closures.
The Dominion Energy map shows two power outages currently in Falls Church as of 10:45 a.m. today (May 24) — one affecting 1,009 customers from West Street to Lincoln Avenue and another one affecting 324 customers around Shreve Road above Jefferson District Park.
Dominion expects that power will be restored later tonight for both outages between 6-11 p.m.
Several roads in Dunn Loring and Falls Church were still closed as of 8:33 a.m., according to a released list from the Fairfax County Police Department. FCPD will update the list throughout the day.
The following roads closed in FCPD’s McLean District are:
- Winder and Drexel streets
- Jefferson and Woodlawn avenues
- Elmwood and Stuart drives
- Marshall Street between Jefferson and Farragut avenues
- Woodley Place between Lee Hwy and Deborah Drive
- 2900 block of Rogers Drive
- 2900 block of Wallace Drive
- 2700 block of Greenway Blvd
Local storm reports from the National Weather Service yesterday around 7:30 p.m. reported “a tree uprooted and many large branches snapped” by the intersection of Route 50 and I-495, a large fallen tree blocking Summerfield Road and S. Washington Street and “downed wires and trees” near Jackson Avenue and Summerfield Road.
A few people took to Twitter to share a video of the thunderstorm in Tysons yesterday and spottings of downed trees and power lines.
Thunderstorm rolling into Tysons Corner and the W2 Communications offices ⛈⚡️ @capitalweather pic.twitter.com/ixp67wIS2D
— W2 Communications (@W2Comm) May 23, 2019
Driving from Merrifield to Tysons and seeing a ton of downed limbs and branches. Winds here were legit during yesterday’s storms
— Andrew King (@H2Omaker71) May 24, 2019
Map via Dominion Energy
Simply Beauty plans to open an eyelash extension studio in Tysons on Tuesday (May 28).
Currently located in Haymarket, Simply Beauty offers eyelash extensions and refills.
The new Tysons store will open at 8027 Leesburg Pike, Suite 308, its website says.
The new spot is across the street from the Tysons Corner Marriott and is in the same building with the Nordstrom Rack, BJ’s Brewhouse and Neisha Thai.
Image via Google Maps
