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Eden Center
Strip mall in Falls Church, VirginiaWikipedia
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Oct 22, 2026
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
OK, what's your runner up? It's not a runner up, but I would say one of the bond me capitals of the country is right outside of Washington, D.C., where I live.
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
And so there's like a place called Eden Center and bond me.
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
So mode is my absolute go to buy five, get one free.
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
Another great loyalty.
Elazar SontagGUEST
That you have DC sort of the hub, but then when you start to explore and when you sort of broaden your horizons, whether it's just mental or physically leaving the city, you realize that it is just this incredible web of culture and really varied cuisines.
Elazar SontagGUEST
So you can go to the Eden Center and have probably one of the highest densities of Vietnamese food and culture in America.
Elazar SontagGUEST
You can go to Annandale and on this one strip of highway have 15 different versions of a Korean dinner.
Elazar SontagGUEST
And you can have those experiences in DC too.
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Elazar SontagGUEST
I chose other restaurants to sort of represent that bucket, so to speak.
Elazar SontagGUEST
But it absolutely represents a kind of familiarity, a kind of comfort that people look for and they want.
Elazar SontagGUEST
And I've tried to sort of represent that in a number of ways on this list of like, you know, for certain readers, like the tofu stew shop in Annandale or the Vietnamese noodle shop in the Eden Center, like it is that thing, right? Like DC is an incredibly multicultural city in the broader region, you know, even more so.
Elazar SontagGUEST
And so it's like, you know, someone's Le Dip is another person's Trang Tien is another person's Lighthouse Tofu, and, like, I wanted to be able to represent and offer that kind of comfort for all of my readers.
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Falls Church did.
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Trong Tien at the Eden Center ranked 10th, praised by critic Elazar Sontag for its beef and pork noodle soup.
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Two Arlington spots made last year's list.
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Meanwhile, Arlington Restaurant Week runs through Monday at more than 70 restaurants.
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Five Northern Virginia restaurants made the Washington Post's new list of the region's 40 best, the first from food critic Elazar Sontag.
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Trang Tien at the Eden Center ranked highest at number 10, followed by Lighthouse Tofu in Annandale, Mama Chang in Fairfax City, Chef Tan in Vienna, and Chotwala in Herndon.
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Fairfax County police say a 19-year-old Herndon man tried to trade fentanyl pills for a gun with an undercover detective.
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Police say he fled a meeting in Chantilly on October 10th but was caught soon after and a search of his car turned up about 2,000 suspected fentanyl pills and a gun rigged to fire automatically.
Sam LevineGUEST
But I think it's a world that we are rapidly losing if we don't have more action by state to protect that principle of fair pricing.
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
One of my favorite local businesses is a banh mi sandwich shop in Eden Center.
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
And they are known for offering buy five, get the sixth sandwich free for decades.
Stephanie NguyenGUEST
And I think about what would happen if that banh mi sandwich shop closed.