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Girasole Italian Cuisine - The Plains, VA

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Featured Specials

January 2 – January 8, 2025

Find our fixed-price New Year’s Eve menu here. We will be closed New Year’s Day, Thursday January 1st.

To best welcome you as our guests, we recommend a reservation. Please call 540-253-5501 to reserve. Please be aware that a credit card is required with your reservation. Curbside pickup is still available.

    • Featured Cocktail

    • The Detox

      $13.00

      Muddled amarena cherries, Blackcurrant vinegar, club soda, & lemon

    • Featured Appetizers and Salads

    • Coppa di Testa

      $22.50

      House made Long Stone Farm pork terrine, with cornichons

    • Finocchio al Parmigiano

      $14.50

      Roast fennel with a parmesan gratinate

    • Funghi Fritti

      $18.50

      Portobello mushrooms lightly fried tempura style, sea fennel mayo

    • Sushi grade Tuna Tartare with an olive tapenade

      $22.50
    • Radicchio tossed with local greens, hazelnuts, and a passion fruit vinaigrette

      $18.50
    • Featured House made Pastas and Entrees

    • Lamb Ravioli in a sweet curry with golden raisins

      $36.50
    • Seafood Ravioli filled with lobster, shrimp, and scallops, served in a lobster butter

      $44.50
    • Pesce Spada alla Puttanesca

      $38.50

      Swordfish pan sautéed with olives, capers, and a light a marinara sauce

    • Venison medallions with French brandied cherries

      $44.50
    • Featured House made Desserts

    • Persimmon tiramisu, Pecan diamonds with bourbon gelato, Passion fruit brulee, Almond pound cake with amarena cherries, Chocolate gianduja, Flourless chocolate torte with peppermint gelato, Gelato, & Sorbets

How to Place an Order for Carryout

Please call to place an order at 540-253-5501. Have your credit card number ready when you call. When you arrive to pick up your order, call us and let us know you have arrived and we will bring it out to you.

Menu Items are Subject to Availability

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Dec 27

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A taste of what's to come this New Year's Eve on our fixed-price, four course menu! Find the full menu at the link in our bio. Call to reserve your table with us to ring in the New Year, 540-253-5501!
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📸: Swordfish with a puttanesca sauce

📸: Local veal tenderloin pan sautéed with shallots, capers, and white wine

📸: Celery root ravioli served in a sage butter drizzled with aged balsamic from Modena, roasted walnuts
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Dec 18

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From the hills of western Pennsylvania to our village of The Plains, VA! Lydia has outdone herself with this year's 18 ft tree glowing bright on our patio. 

Just one of many trees decorated throughout the restaurant, spreading joy and cheer and that warm holiday feeling to accompany Chef Lou's inspired, seasonal dishes!
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Dec 2

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IT'S ALL HAPPENING THIS SUNDAY! 

A Holiday Wine Tasting featuring champagnes & rare & exceptional bottles from France, our Annual Holiday Art, Wine, & Gift Sale featuring works by internationally renowned printmaker, draftsman and painter (and Chef Lou’s brother) @robert_patierno, and the restaurant will be decorated from head to toe with great big bows, twinkling lights, gorgeous garlands, singing cherubs, and a towering tree on our patio!

Discover more at the links in our bio.
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Nov 13

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Preserving Summer!

Risotto with tomato passata, a concentrated tomato paste or puree made from the last of Chef Lou's heirloom tomatoes from his garden. On our featured specials tonight.
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Oct 30

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Ghosts of truffle dinners past! Some favorite shots from the past 21 years of our annual white truffle dinner. What new memories, stories, and spectacular dishes and wines will this year bring?! 

Join us this Sunday, November 2nd at 6:30 for our Annual White Truffle Dinner hosted by Giuseppe Vaira of @gdvajra_barolo of Barolo, Italy. Call to reserve, 540-253-5501. Link in bio!
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Oct 29

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Carote in agrodolce! 

Delightfully sweet and tangy, we roast local carrots and marinate them with golden raisins, onion, vinegar, and honey. Served with burrata and crushed pistachios, and on our featured specials tonight!
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Oct 22

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Cheers to 21 yrs of celebrating the 'diamonds of the kitchen', the white Alba truffle, and the captivating wines of GD Vajra of Barolo! Have you reserved your table yet for our Annual White Truffle Dinner on Sunday, November 2nd?

Click the link in our bio to discover more about the famed white Alba truffle, our host Giuseppe Vaira and his family's wines, and about why this is the event we look forward to most year after year. Call to reserve, 540-253-5501.
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Oct 16

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Matsutake mushroom risotto looking extra dramatic on these moody fall days. On our featured specials tonight, stop by or call to reserve, 540-253-5501.
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Sep 13

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Old and new world techniques, a blend of international grapes (most notably Nebbiolo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Tempranillo, Chardonnay, and Chenin Blanc), rich clay and sand soils, a blend of coastal and higher altitude climates, and a history as the birthplace of winemaking in North America make Mexico possibly the most exciting wine making region in the world, and we are delighted to share some of the country’s best wines for the first time at our patio wine tasting tomorrow, Sunday, at 2:30! 

Hosted by @malcolmriddle of @salvetoimports. Only a few seats remain, call to reserve, 540-253-5501. Find out more in our story.
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Sep 4

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✨The Journey of a Girasole Tomato ✨

From Chef Lou's garden to our kitchen, the journey is merely a walk from one end of our parking lot to the other, but it is one that requires great care, dedication, and anticipation for the Summer growing season. Weeding, tilling, and feeding the soil with food scraps from our kitchen, Chef Lou works all year to grow the most delicious tomatoes you will ever taste. Once the heirloom varieties are mature, simple preparations passed down from parents and grandparents allow Chef Lou's flavorful tomatoes to shine on your plate. The season is nearing its end, but Chef Lou still has so much in store for the last of his humble parking lot garden tomatoes.
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Aug 13

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Lydia’s olives, Mediterranean olives roasted with herbs, garlic, citrus, and red pepper, according to her Nonna’s recipe, and on our specials tonight. The olives are not from her two olive trees on the patio, but she is incredibly proud of this year’s bumper crop of about 32 olives total. Lydia has been carefully nurturing each tree and putting them out on our patio for about 8 years now.
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Girasole Italian Cuisine - The Plains, VA

(540) 253-5501
4244 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains, VA 20198
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Monday & Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday – Sunday: 4:30pm with the last seating at 8:30pm

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