Best Family Style Restaurants in McLean

Great place, great location, great food & superb service! The only negative is that it’s a spec building so the acoustics are HORRIBLE! The super high open ceiling without any sound insulation makes it super loud. The one in Annapolis (Parole Town Center) doesn’t suffer from this poor acoustics problem. Delightful dinner experience - just needs sound work 😃

Highly recommended Wren, we came for a pre-concert dinner and our waiter asked us first thing if we were going to a concert as to be cognizant of our time line. We ordered several shareable dishes that were excellent, the Brussel sprouts were amazing as was the Waygu fried rice, sushi, tempura mushrooms, chicken and short rib! We loved everything! Drinks were delicious as well as beautiful, and enjoyed it all while overlooking the night view! Be sure to ask for a window table! Looking forward to going back!

Excellent service, and food was pretty good as it always is here. In fact, their fresh bread on the table is even more hot and delicious than I remember. Pasta is always good here, and the seasonal butternut squash ravioli was absolutely delicious. The veal Marsala special was quite good, too. Though we were too full for dessert, maggiano’s tiramisu is always excellent and this time the slice of chocolate cake looked absolutely like a guilty pleasure but we were trying to watch our intake of sweets.

All the food and drink were amazing. Don’t skip the pho pate and the seafood cha gio. Their signature cocktails are amazing as well. You honestly can’t go wrong with any choice you make. A wonderful dining experience

Enjoyed multiple appetizers all which excellent. Lettuce wraps, fried potstickers that were in a good sauce, bang bang shrimp (not as good as previous recipe) and my favorite hot and sour soup. The latter always a highlight as most incarnations of this soup don’t include strips of pork which PF does. Dinner entres included chicken lo mein, a new dish chicken teriyaki. Both were very tasty. Service we ok but not great. Despite it was very slow that night in the restaurant so was the service. Asked for items and took forever for them to how up (like a knife.) some work needed in service area. Finally the prices have gone up a lot. Dinner for three was $240. Never spent that much at PF.