1940 Front of postcard showing the Evans Coffee Shop which stood on Lee Highway and later replaced by the Alpine Restaurant. The Evans family closed the coffee shop and opened the Evans Farm Inn in McLean. Thomas Collection
Over the past 100 years, Arlington residents have enjoyed numerous restaurants. Enjoy the following images that celebrate this culinary past.
1956 Tops Drive-Inn Founder James Mathews
1960 Believed to be the first Tops Drive-Inn, it was located on Glebe Road near Route 50.
1960 This photo of the parking lot at the Tops Drive-Inn, which once sat at the corner of George Mason Drive and Lee Highway, is from the Wayne Hager Collection.
A page from an old Tops Drive-Inn menu.
A page from an old Tops Drive-Inn menu.
1940 Back of postcard showing the Evans Coffee Shop which stood on Lee Highway and later replaced by the Alpine Restaurant. The Evans family closed the coffee shop and opened the Evans Farm Inn in McLean. Thomas Collection
1940 Front of postcard showing the Evans Coffee Shop which stood on Lee Highway and later replaced by the Alpine Restaurant. The Evans family closed the coffee shop and opened the Evans Farm Inn in McLean. Thomas Collection
1955 circa Pick's Grill matchbook cover. It's not listed in the 1961 Arlington County Directory.
1964 circa Back of postcard for the Little Tea House. It was located where the Ridge House Condominium is today.
1964 circa Front of postcard for the Little Tea House. It was located where the Ridge House Condominium is today.
1985 circa the old Little Tavern in Clarendon which later became Goodys. Little Taverns were founded in Louisville, KY around 1927.
1995 circa One of Arlington's former iconic restaurants, Whitey's, is now Texas Jack's on Washington Blvd.
The Golden Point Restaurant was located at the corner of Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive on the SE corner.
1965 circa Bill Staton's Jack and Jill Cue Club. Bill Staton was one of the best pool players in the country and went on to be a very good golfer. He is also known for his Weenie Beenie restaurants - one is still located in Shirlington.
1990 circa Tom Sarris' Orleans House was a gem in Rosslyn but sadly had to give way to another huge office building.
1955 circa Hicks Restaurant and Market is believed to have been located on Lee Highway in Hall's Hill where the KFC is today.
2010 circa Before it was Tutto Bene Restaurant, it was Ziggy's then J.J.'s Night Club
1945 Originally built to be Appliances by Sheff, a former Kitchen Center, then Dan Kain Trophies, and now Lyon Hall Restaurant
1995 circa Originally built to be Appliances by Sheff, a former Kitchen Center, then Dan Kain Trophies, and now Lyon Hall Restaurant
2012 circa Originally built to be Appliances by Sheff, a former Kitchen Center, then Dan Kain Trophies, and now Lyon Hall Restaurant
1940 circa To the right would be where Bar Bao is today and to the left, the drugstore, is now the home of Liberty Tavern Restaurant.
2010 circa Liberty Tavern
1965 circa Hurt Cleaners at 3211 Wilson Blvd, now the home of Northside Social
2013 circa Once Hurt Cleaners at 3211 Wilson Blvd, now the home of Northside Social
