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Girasole Italian Cuisine - The Plains, VA

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Featured Specials

April 16 – April 22, 2021

We are open for full-service dining on our patio and indoors! Reservations are recommended due to limited seating. Curbside pickup is still available. Please call us at 540-253-5501 to make a reservation or to place an order. We are offering our full dinner menu and featured chef’s specials. 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 Moretti Lager, Moretti Red, Stella Artois, Amstel Lite, Old Bust Head IPA, and Old Bust Head Chukker pilsner. 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

    • Primavera

      $10.50

      Luxardo bitter bianco, Contratto bianco vermouth, Strega, orange bitters, and soda over ice

    • Featured Appetizers and Salads

    • Funghi Shiitake Fritti

      $14.50

      Shiitake mushrooms lightly fried tempura style

    • Pizza Rustica

      $13.50

      Cured Italian meats and cheeses mixed with egg, and baked in a pastry crust

    • Sformato di Asparagi

      $16.50

      Asparagus sformato, a cross between a flan and a soufflé, with a sheep’s milk fonduta

    • Supplì al Telefono

      $13.50

      Balls of saffron risotto stuffed with burrata, peas, artichokes, and asparagus, rolled into balls and lightly fried

    • APD Farm beef tongue sliced thinly with local arugula, artisanal olive oil, lemon, and a salsa verde

      $16.50
    • Local greens with house smoked duck, sun dried cherries, pecans, and a balsamic vinaigrette

      $14.50
    • Marinated octopus, chickpeas, fresh parsley, lemon, and artisanal olive oil, served chilled

      $18.50
    • Calabrian style roasted cauliflower and Romanesco broccoli tossed with olives, capers, lemon, and artisanal olive oil

      $13.50
    • Featured House made Pastas and Entrees

    • Cannelloni

      $32.50

      Tubular pasta filled with seasoned veal

    • Meat tortellini in a light cream sauce, wild fennel pollen

      $30.50
    • Nettle gnocchi with a wild Tuscan boar ragù

      $34.50
    • Arctic Char pan sautéed with artichokes

      $34.50
    • Coniglio Arrosto

      $38.50

      Roasted heritage breed rabbit, stuffed with foie gras and local mushrooms

    • Veal medallions pan sautéed with Morel mushrooms, port cream sauce

      $38.50
    • Featured House made Desserts

    • Olive oil cake with white chocolate gelato and a rhubarb compote, Vanilla panna cotta with Lambrusco poached pear, Ricotta cheesecake with amarena cherries, Hazelnut amaretto torte, Passion fruit brulee, Walnut liqueur Tiramisu, Flour-less chocolate torte with a raspberry crème anglaise, Chocolate gianduja, Blackberry gelato with chocolate chips, Chocolate gelato with amarena cherries, & Sorbets

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Dining with Us

Please respect the guidelines set in place so we can continue to serve you:

  • Guests are required by the Commonwealth of Virginia to wear masks when spending time in indoor public spaces. Masks may be removed indoors “while eating or drinking”. If you do not have a mask when you arrive, we have sunflower masks for purchase for $10.
  • Hand sanitation stations will be setup near the entrance/exits of the restaurant and near the restrooms for your convenience.
  • All tables are spaced out in accordance with physical distance mandates on our patio and indoors. Please do not move the tables. We will try to accommodate any table requests as best we can, but not all requests can be met.
  • No one with a fever or symptoms of COVID-19, or known exposure to a COVID-19 case in the prior 14 days, is permitted on the patio or in the restaurant.

We will be following policies that we set in place right before the shutdown. Booths, chairs, salt and pepper shakers, bread baskets, check books, and anything else that we and you come into contact with will be disinfected thoroughly and often. We only ask your patience, as all these steps will take longer, but we believe they are necessary in maintaining the health of our customers, staff, and their families.

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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Apr 17

Open
It’s a beautiful weekend...for dessert!

White chocolate gelato with a rhubarb compote
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#gelato #rhubarb #compote #dessert #pastrychef #loveloudoun #🌞 #visitfauquier #huntcountry #cheflou #finedining #vafoodie #washingtondc
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Apr 11

Open
Totally unrelated to food, we missed #nationalsiblingday! Even though we are a day late (sorry but it wasn’t listed on our calendar), we thought it would be fun to share some photos of our siblings.❤️

Can you guess which is Lou and Lydia?😂 And don’t forget, we open at 4:30!
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Apr 7

Open
Desserts worth saving room for. All made by Chef Lou in his humble pastry room, which also doubles as the bread making room on Wednesdays😊😂. 

📸 Lambrusco poached pear with vanilla panna cotta
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Mar 30

Open
Italy is calling you! Explore the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia with our fixed price menu with wine pairings by @dilenardo_vineyards. Part of our Italian vintner dinner series and ending this Friday. 
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Arugula with prosciutto di San Daniele, house vinaigrette
Toh! Fiurlano DOC

Potato ravioli with black truffle
Father’s Eyes Chardonnay OR Refosco IGT

Diver scallops with an herb gratinate
Sauvignon IGT

Tiramisù
Pass the Cookies!
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Mar 27

Open
Better than Spring selfies and photos of blossoming flowers, here is our beef tartare with foie gras and hazelnuts.

On our specials tonight and for the rest of the week. 

#crudodicuore #tartare #grassfed #theplainsva #girasoleva #spring #finedining #foiegras #huntcountry #loveloudoun #visitfauquier #nova
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Mar 24

Open
Pizza rustica...Easter must be near! Click the link in our bio to get all the details for dining with us on Easter Sunday, and all other upcoming events for that matter😁
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March 19-April 2: Four course, fixed price regional menu with wine pairings by @dilenardo_vineyards
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Monday, March 29: Meatball and mezze maniche virtual cooking class with Lydia
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Sunday, April 4: Dinner menu with seasonal Chef’s specials for Easter Sunday, reservations available from 12:00-4:30
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Mar 17

Open
A green, matcha IPA from Japan at an Italian restaurant on St. Patrick’s Day amidst Virginia hunt country. Hey, crazier things have happened.

Kyoto Matcha IPA available for a limited time. Delicate hoppy bitterness bolstered by matcha aromas and flavors, with aromatics of citrus.
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Mar 13

Open
Lambrusco poached pear with a mascarpone cream and pistachios. Big enough to share, but why would you want to?
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#girasoleva #dessert #pistachio #lacucinaitaliana #vafoodie #loveloudoun #huntcountry #finedining #pastrychef #theplainsva #marshallva #nova #visitfauquier #hungry
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Mar 9

Open
When you start lighting the desserts like a baroque painting😂

Nocino tiramisù with Belgian chocolate chunks. We open at 4:30. Come take advantage of this beautiful spring weather. 
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#nocino #caravaggio #baroque #dessert #dolce #tiramisu #chiaroscuro #theplainsva #huntcountry #marshallva #loveloudoun #vafoodie #finedining #visitfauquier #nova #foodgram
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Mar 3

Open
We think the New York Times put it best when writing about the Tuscan dish ribollita, literally meaning reboiled. “Neither vegetable soup nor stale bread has ever tasted so good. When you serve it, you don't need anything else.” 

Well, a beautiful glass of Avignonesi Cantaloro Bianco wouldn’t be a bad addition. Do not miss our four course, fixed price Tuscan menu with wine pairings by the acclaimed @avignonesi winery, and the opportunity to taste some of their most prestigious wines, including their Sangiovese Grandi Annate, produced only in the best vintages from old vines. And like all of their wines, the grapes for Grandi Annate are grown, harvested, and vinified organically to express the best traits of Sangiovese from Tuscany. Menu and pairings available through Friday.
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#ribollita #organic #biodynamic #avignonesi #vinonobile #grandiannate #vinsanto #cantaloro #igt #tuscany #rustic #cucinapovera #newyorktimes #jamessuckling #vinous #wineenthusiast #winespectator #wineadvocate #nova #finedining #foodblog #dcdining #vafoodie #lacucinaitaliana
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Feb 23

Open
Like so many dishes in Italy, the origins and ingredients of zuppa inglese are highly disputed. The name zuppa inglese, literally meaning English soup, raises even more questions. The only thing we can tell you with confidence is that it is delicious and light and you will wonder why you never heard of it before.
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Here it is. Chef Lou’s zuppa inglese. Cake soaked in brandy, layered with pastry cream, Belgian chocolate chunks, and amarena cherries, decorated with meringue. Available now on our fixed price Tuscan menu with wine pairings by Avignonesi.
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Feb 20

Open
Chocolate soufflé and vin brûlée (mulled wine) available tonight!
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Start your meal with our featured cocktail, made with cognac, orange curaçao, and dry vermouth, followed by a morel sformato with a rich sheep’s milk fonduta sauce. 
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Or join us tomorrow for a wine tasting at 2:30, featuring wines from Turkey, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy.
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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: closed

Tuesday – Thursday: 4:30pm – 10:00pm

Friday – Sunday: 4:30pm – 10:30pm

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