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Girasole Italian Cuisine - The Plains, VA

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Pantry items

Pantry

Take our pantry home with you! We are now offering local, imported, and house made specialties for you to purchase and use in your own home. Order individually or in a gift basket for yourself, a friend, or loved one. Because nothing beats the gift of good food.

    • For Your Pantry

    • Morello Amarene Cherries

      $17

      11.8oz Wild cherries preserved in a rich syrup from Le Marche, Italy. A sumptuous topping or ingredient for desserts and cocktails. Mix in fruit salads or use as a topping for ice cream, panna cotta, or cheesecake. Swirl into yogurt and top with granola. Mix into a cake batter for a stunning dessert studded with cherries.

    • Fabbri Amarene Cherries

      $28

      22oz Decorative ceramic jar

    • Organic Mostagro Balsamic

      $24

      100mL A style of balsamic produced from Barbera grapes and aged 1 year in wood. Lots of body and nuance, packaged in a wonderful, individually numbered gift box with a leather tie. It is ideal for sophisticated and intense vinaigrettes, grilled vegetables, and is perfect on red meats, turnips and cabbage soups.

    • Extra virgin olive oil for cooking

      $35

      1 gallon

    • Imported Olive Oils avaialable for purchase individually or in a gift box of three

    • Montenidoli Extra Virgin olive oil, Tuscany

      $40

      500 mL Olives have been organically grown and hand harvested at the Montenidoli estate near San Gimignano since the time of the Etruscans. They currently grow Moraiolo and Correggiolo strains; the former provides body, and the latter perfumes. Strongly flavored, with pronounced artichoke and vegetal flavors.

    • Nocellara Cutrera Extra virgin olive oil, Sicily

      $34

      500mL Medium intensity made from Nocellara del Belice olives. Herbaceous aromas, green olive flavor, and a persistent spiciness. Gold medalist at the New York and Los Angeles International Competitions. 

    • Poggio Lamentano Extra virgin olive oil, Tuscany

      $48

      750mL Organically farmed estate with beautiful views over the Tyrrhenian Sea and the islands of Elba, Capraia and Gorgona. The oil is brightly colored, with vibrant, complex, lemony-nutty flavors and peppery, rocket-like aftertaste.

    • Titone Organic Extra virgin olive oil, Sicily

      $34

      500 mL Decidedly herbaceous, with notes of arugula and bright green tomato. Peppery and bitter. Gold medalist at the World Olive Oil Competition.

    • For your refrigerator or freezer

    • Loaf of our house made bread

      $11

      Enjoy immediately or freeze and re-heat in the oven.

    • Hombre organic butter

      $9

      8oz, 83% butterfat, unsalted. Made using fresh cream from this bio-dynamic farm located in Modena.

    • True Farms hydroponic arugula

      $10

      Enough for 2 salads.

    • House smoked salmon

      $30 per lb

      Thinly sliced

    • Pecorino Fiore Sardo DOP

      $18 per lb

      A rustic aged sheep’s milk cheese from Sardinia produced since the bronze age. Smoked by burning the bark of a gnarly looking cork tree. The flavor is powerful and distinctive with an amazing texture

    • Parmigiano Reggiano aged 30+ months

      $26 per lb

      Made using organic raw cow’s milk. The farm, located in Modena, grows the cow’s entire diet within the farm using organic agriculture. It’s longer ageing accentuates the crunch,deepens, sharpens the flavors, and makes this one of the world’s greatest tables cheeses. Ideal after a meal, pair with powerful wines to stand up to its flavors.

    • House made marinara

      $15

      Made with DOC San Marzano tomatoes. Quart size.

    • House made fettucine or chitarrini

      $20

      4 nests. Serve 3-4 people.

    • Half tray lasagna

      $150

      Serves 8. Available as a traditional meat lasagna, eggplant and goat cheese lasagna, or local mushroom lasagna.  Must be pre-ordered at least 4 days in advance.

    • Guanciale

      $16 per lb

      Cured pork jowl eaten as charcuterie, but most often used in Italy’s most famous pasta dishes such as carbonara and amatriciana. More delicate texture and stronger flavor than pancetta. Thinly sliced.

    • Pancetta

      $14 per lb

      Salt cured pork belly eaten as charcuterie, but more commonly used with pasta, on pizza, or cooked with soups. Thinly sliced.

    • Prosciutto di San Daniele ‘Black Label’

      $30 per lb

      Renowned throughout the world for its smoothness on the palate, fragrance, sweet taste, and leanness. San Daniele’s Black Label is air-dried and cured for over 16 months. Thinly sliced.

    • Speck

      $22 per lb

      Dry-cured, lightly smoked pork shoulder from northern Italy. Thinly sliced.

    • Pantry Desserts

    • House made gelato

      $10.50 – $18.50

      Vanilla, chocolate, or pistachio.  $10.50 for 8oz container, $18.50 for pint container

    • Must be 21 or older

    • Cocktails a Casa Tua

      $95

      Includes a bottle of Contratto vermouth Bianco, Adami Prosecco, Blenheim ginger ale, suggested cocktail recipes and garnishes packed in a re-useable cotton bag. Relax in place with our at home cocktail kit. 

    • Wine gift boxes

      $90+

      3 bottles of wine with retail pricing gift wrapped based on your price range, starting at $90. Make your own selection or ask Lydia for her recommendations.

    • Three vintages of the famed wine producer Giacomo Conterno’s Barbera d’Alba

      $195

      “The wines produced by Giovanni Conterno are monuments to Nebbiolo as well as to the glory of the Piedmont.” Robert Parker

    • Lydia’s favorite Barolo’s

      $250
    • Lydia’s favorite Brunello’s

      $250

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Mar 4

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Rich and creamy butterscotch, topped with salted caramel and freshly whipped cream. Our butterscotch budino is officially back on our dessert tray, but may not be around much longer if temperatures heat up!
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Feb 19

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POSTPONED! To next Sunday, March 1. If you had a reservation, we have already contacted you. If you were unable to make it for its original date of tomorrow, we would love to see you next Sunday, March 1! Just give us a call to reserve, 540-253-5501.
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This Sunday's cooking class is a family affair! Hosted by Chef Lou AND Lydia and featuring dishes from their childhoods, and their travels in Italy over the years.

Discover more at the link in our bio, and as always, call to reserve 540-253-5501. Can the kitchen contain them both?! We will find out Sunday😂
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Jan 28

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Soup for you, and you, and you, AND YOU! Soup with lentils, soup with Tuscan beans and pasta, soup with little tiny tortellini, and soup with whisked egg and parmigiano! These are the soups of Girasole, welcoming you back from a frigid and snow-filled week.

We are open for our regular dinner service tonight and throughout the rest of the week. We hope to see you!
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Jan 14

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Our persimmon tiramisu is really something to talk about. 

At first bite a bit odd, like you're not really understanding what your tasting. The texture is smooth with complex flavors of honey and spice, rich but at the same time delicate. By the end of the first bite, you are in love. 

Available on our dessert tray for only a little while longer as the season for persimmons is finally coming to an end.
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Jan 7

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Rolling into 2026 like...

From cooking classes to our monthly wine tastings to weekly featured cocktail and mocktail specials, 2026 has just arrived and we are not slowing down! Find all the details in our monthly newsletter linked in our story.

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#girasoleva #theplainsva #smallbusiness #familyownedandoperated #22yearsandcounting
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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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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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