The coffee-and-cake chain celebrates its Old Town debut October 17 with tote bags, capsule prizes, and complimentary samples.
Yami Buffet turned the former Red Lobster at 555 S. Van Dorn Street in Alexandria into an all-you-can-eat Asian buffet with sushi, hibachi, barbecue, dim sum and a dinner seafood spread of snow crab, blue crab and oysters. Weekday lunch is $18.99, dinner and weekends are $29.99, and kids start at $7.99. Prices, hours, carry-out by the pound and what to know.
The owners of Emmy French Corner have opened La Pâte next door on U Street, serving Sicilian pizza with 48-hour dough, fresh pasta and house-made focaccia.
A father-and-son Iraqi restaurant is open on Maple Avenue in Vienna with 48-hour-marinated shawarma, handmade saj and samoon, and loaded fries.
Sloomoo Institute has opened at Tysons Corner Center with a slime lake, DIY slime bar and optional slime shower. Here’s what to know before you go.
Orange Pocket, a Japanese and Korean pop culture store with blind boxes, claw machines, gashapon, Pokemon plush and Japanese snacks, opens Saturday, September 19, 2026 at noon at Rio Lakefront in Gaithersburg. It is the Texas chain’s first store outside Texas. Here is what is inside, what opening day gives away and how to get there.
