A notice on the Restaurant Eve website today confirms the worst — the restaurant will be closing in June.
A letter on the Restaurant Eve's website begins, "Dear Friends, After fourteen years it is bittersweet to relay Restaurant Eve will be closing her doors. Our lease has concluded and Saturday, June 2 will be our last day of service. Our restaurant was conceived from our love of food and hospitality with a name lent by our first child. Eve was only four then. She’s nineteen now."
Rumors started earlier this year, when Washingtonian reported that Restaurant Eve could be closing.
“It’s at the point where we need to reinvent it [Eve],” Armstrong said in the Washingtonian story back in February. “It’s in the cards that something will happen within the next few months, whether closing or relocating or some sugar daddy comes along and gives us a million dollars—but that scenario isn’t likely.”
Restaurant Eve is located at 110 S. Pitt Street in Old Town Alexandria. It has hosted famous national figures (including then-President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle) and locals for years, receiving consistently rave reviews.
Armstrong operates the Eat Good Food Group along with his wife, Meshelle, and business partner Todd Thrasher.
The Eat Good Food Group includes Society Fair, Hummingbird, speakeasy-style bar PX, Eammon’s (A Dublin Chipper) and more.
“Restaurant Eve has one intention: to bring everything together in perfect harmony—ingredients, cooking techniques, presentation, and that ephemeral, indescribable characteristic called soulfulness. We purchase from farms that share our values of quality and sustainability, and showcase the best hand-fed, farm-raised, organically grown bounty Virginia and the surrounding countryside have to offer,” according to the restaurant’s website.
