The Virginian Restaurant — Restaurant in Vienna

UPDATE:

My daughter and I were in N VA not too long ago for a volleyball tournament, and we decided to visit the Virginian on a Saturday morning for breakfast.

We had a solid meal. Nothing phantasmagorically spectacular, but good. Service was excellent. We love the atmosphere of this place -- it was so busy we elected to eat at the counter to get service faster. That was enjoyable.

However a simple breakfast of pancakes, sausage, hot cocoa, an omelet, bacon and juice ran the two of us NEARLY $60 WITH TIP.

When we ate dinner there years ago, one of the attractive things about this place was the reasonable pricing.

Sorry, Virginian, but I don't think you're affordable any more. I hate to say it, but you've seen the last of our family. Well, this place was a delight.

We were looking for something simple and reasonably priced. Restaurant had an old fashioned diner feel and the wait staff was extremely sweet and kind.

Daughter had pancakes. Hard to mess those up, but they were big and perfectly cooked. Son had a Belgian waffle w/ scrambled eggs and was very happy. I got a high-protein breakfast with three eggs and two meat sides -- I chose bacon and gyro meat, which was tasty but just a little dry. I asked for 2 eggs scrambled and one fried, and they accommodated me. Overall, quite satisfactory.

If you ask for a fried egg, be sure to specify how you want it to be cooked. I didn't and I got it well done. I like my yolks just a little runny.

For dessert, the kids enjoyed a slice of strawberry rhubarb pie and I stole a taste or two. Delicious crust, tasty filling, but a little too runny for my taste. I think it would have been better if it were less chunky on the inside -- strawberries could have been sliced more thinly. But the flip side of that coin is that the pie didn't skimp on berries in the filling -- they were big and plentiful. A yummy slice of pie overall.

I told them we'd be back next time we're...

The food is great, but overpriced. Breakfast cost us 60.00. Impressive. The service is not so great, the women that work there act as if they are doing you a favor by serving you. Like the staff, the customers are rude and arrogant also. A heavy set customer raised her hand as if she was in a school room and demanded another fork, I guess she dropped the other one she had, didn't have the common courtesy to pick it up for the waitress, or couldn't for that matter, the waitress handed her another fork, and simply walked away. I was taken back a bit, when the waitress didn't bother to pick up the fork either. Another customer was just staring at the heavy set woman, as if she were some creature. All over a fork.

This is a diner like restaurant located in the heart of Vienna, traffic in the area is always a disaster, rude, and horrible drivers, parking there is limited. This place reminds me of something in the 60's, located in a small run down town, where all the locals go to after church or for breakfast before they start their weekend. It almost feels like you are in Maybury, and Andy Griffith and Barney will walk in at any moment.

We come to this area sometimes to go shopping at the mall, there are really no other good spots for breakfast, Whole Foods has a breakfast bar, but you will run into the same traffic and same arrogance, and the food is not good as well. Vienna is a small run down town, reminds me of Maybury, the TV show, where everyone knows everyone. 2 stars for good food -3 because of the staff and parking and maybe just generally, the unfriendliness, and unwelcoming feel that the towns gives out, seems like people are so...

I like diners like this place a lot, but I'm finding it more challenging to have a good experience in the DC area. As with any other restaurant here, the prices are on the higher side. The special of burrata avocado toast was interesting. It seemed like no one knew if there was wheat flour in the scrapple. I was assured there was only corn after they asked the cooks, but after seeing and eating it, I'm not sure. I guess I'll find out soon enough. The homefries were good, but the server or cooks got my order wrong and my eggs were sunny side up with runny whites rather than poached - an option on their menu, nothing special (I thought). My partner's egg came out over easy, so someone got at least one egg right... Not really the place for a vegetarian or gluten-sensitive person, but maybe that's already obvious. The breakfast fry deal sounds good, but I didn't ask if they'd sub something else for the ham and sauage in it. I know better than to get too nitpicky at a diner. But, for the price especially, I would like to at least have the eggs cooked the way I had asked. The assisting servers were nice. The main server was not very personable, even in that brusque matter-of-fact way that one might expect at a traditional...