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Girasole Italian Cuisine - The Plains, VA

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Featured Specials

August 5 – August 11, 2022

Reservations are recommended, a credit card is required with your reservation. Curbside pickup is still available. Please call us at 540-253-5501 to make a reservation or to place an order. We also have the license to sell bottles of wine and we are doing so at competitive retail pricing. Visit the Pantry section of our website to purchase local, imported, and house made specialties for use in your own home. Order items individually or in a gift basket for yourself, a friend, or a loved one.

Wine, cocktails, and beer are still available for purchase with your curbside pickup! All wine ordered from our wine list will receive 20% off. Beer is now $4.50 a bottle. We have Peroni, Heineken, Amstel Lite, Old Bust Head IPA, and Rothaus Pils. Discounts do not apply to full-service dining. Cocktails* are also available in batches of 1 for $12, 2 for $24, or 4 for $44.

    • Featured Cocktail

    • G&B

      $12.50

      Green Hat gin, fresh squeezed lemon, and house grown basil, on the rocks

    • Featured Appetizers and Salads

    • Baccalà Mantecato

      $18.50

      Venetian style cod whipped with extra virgin olive oil until light and creamy, served over locally milled, heirloom polenta

    • Chitarrini al Prezzemolo

      $18.50

      Chitarrini with a sauce of fresh parsley and sweet Cruschi pepper

    • Fiori di Zucca Ripieni

      $16.50

      Squash blossoms from our garden stuffed with ricotta and sun-dried tomato, lightly fried tempura style

    • Pomodoro Tonnato

      $16.50

      Local tomatoes with a Piedmontese caper sauce

    • Saffron Risotto with Maine lobster and English peas

      $26.50
    • Marinated octopus, chickpeas, fresh parsley, lemon, and artisanal olive oil, served chilled

      $18.50
    • Local heirloom tomatoes topped with an olive caponata, artisanal olive oil

      $14.50
    • Featured House made Pastas and Entrees

    • Hand rolled Garganelli served with calamari and house cured Meyer lemon

      $34.50
    • Pappardelle with chanterelle mushrooms

      $38.50
    • Braciole di Pesce Spada

      $36.50

      Swordfish sliced thinly and stuffed with provolone, coated with breadcrumbs, capers, garlic, and parsley and baked

    • Local chicken breast roasted with morels, chanterelles, maitake, shiitake, and royal trumpet mushrooms

      $38.50
    • Featured House made Desserts

    • Cherry and peach cobbler with vanilla gelato, Tiramisu, Chocolate gianduja, Passion fruit brulee, Flourless chocolate torte with an orange crème anglaise, Gelato, & Sorbet

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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. Please have your window down or your trunk open and we will place the order in your car.

*To go cocktails are sold in Bormioli Quattro Stagioni jars and will be charged a $3 deposit. The deposit will be refunded to you when the jar and lid are returned.  Please let us know if you will be returning a jar when you place your order. Per Virginia law, each to go order must include a meal for every 2 cocktails purchased. No more than 4 cocktails can be purchased per transaction. Must be 21 or older to purchase. Must show ID upon pickup.

Menu Items are Subject to Availability

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Aug 3

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Our locally grown, heirloom tomatoes are at peak ripeness! Served with a classic Piedmontese tonnato sauce. We open at 4:30. A presto!
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Jul 27

Open
From our garden to your plate, because seasonality is fundamental.

House made chitarrine with a purée of parsley, stalks and all, with sweet cruschi peppers. We open at 4:30.
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Jul 21

Open
On our featured specials tonight!  We are open for dinner, enjoy the last of this week’s featured specials before they change tomorrow. 
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📸 Halibut pan sautéed, over fennel, zucchini, and olives

📸 Baccalà mantecato, Venetian style cod whipped with olive oil and herbs until light and creamy, over heirloom polenta
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Jul 20

Open
We will see you tomorrow, Thursday, for our regular dinner service. 

Make sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter so you don’t miss out on any more Girasole happenings! Head to our website (link in bio) and scroll down to the bottom of the page to sign up.
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Jul 14

Open
Cobbler season!
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Jul 7

Open
Beautiful and delicious! Our negroni bianco, made with Tanqueray, Vergano chinato moscato, and Cocchi americano is available tonight. 

Come and enjoy the breeze on our patio, we open at 4:30.
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Jun 29

Open
Squash blossoms tempura, stuffed with ricotta and sun-dried tomato. In a very limited supply from our garden. 

We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 4:30 - 8:30pm.
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Jun 23

Open
Thanks to our generator, we have power! We will be open tonight for our regular dinner service at 4:30pm. 

That being said, our internet and phone lines are currently down, so if you would like to dine with us this evening, just stop in! 

Photographed before the storm yesterday is our melon and arugula salad with a mint dressing. Inspired by an ancient Roman recipe and available on our specials tonight!
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Jun 15

Open
We open at 4:30!

📸: Squab pan sautéed and served over frico, a crispy potato and Montasio cheese pancake traditional to the Alps
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Jun 9

Open
Off-menu, off-featured specials special! 

📸 Mint pappardelle with Morel mushrooms
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Jun 5

Open
Not just wine! 

Right now we have a great selection of German beers, including a Düsseldorfer Altbier, a Bavarian Helles lager, a classic Dunkel, and a Berliner Weisse. All perfect on a hot day!

📸 Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse: In 1809, Napoleon and his troops identified Berliner Weisse as the champagne of the north! 1809 is a traditional interpretation of the Berliner style wheat beer that is refreshing and complex, delicately fruity, and subtly sour.
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Jun 1

Open
Shrimp preserved with vinegar and onions, served with pine nuts and raisins over heirloom polenta. A dish that is emblematic of Venetian cuisine and of its maritime culture and trading history. 

Fish and vegetables preserved this way are called saor, or flavor in Venetian dialect, a befitting name for a dish that grows more flavorful the longer it sits.

📸 Shrimp in saor over locally milled, heirloom polenta, currently on our featured specials menu
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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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