Watch as Food Network’s Chopped features a bartender competition starring Sense of Thai St.’s Jeremy Ross. The “Bar Fight” episode airs Jan. 1, at 9 p.m. [Food Network]
Post Coffee Bar and B Doughnuts will open a space in Vienna next year. [Facebook]
Thai Pan, the famed Thai restaurant in a Leesburg gas station, will move to the former Jeans Whisperer space. [Loudoun Times-Mirror]
Arlington loses Italian restaurant Piola. [Facebook]
Obi Sushi and Hen Penny both close in Reston Town Center. [RestonNow, RestonNow]
We’re going all in on paper straws. [Fast Company]
A-Town closes with a New Year’s Eve party, and will reopen next year with a new concept. [Facebook]
2018 was the year of the cocktail. [Bloomberg]