We checked out the newly opend Merrifield location of Lost Dog Cafe. The restaurant is located in the new apartment/retail area called The Halstead and is on the Merrilee (far side from Gallows) side of it. There is a free parking garage if you drive and it is a 5-10 mintue walk from the Dunn Lorring metro. It was a nice afternoon so they had the patio seating availabe. There are 6-7 tables on the patio. There is a garage door type wall that opens from the bar to the patio. Pretty nice. The bar is a square but I think there is only seating on three sides so it's a U-shapped bar. I think there is seating for ~20 people at the bar. We got a table although it wasn't crowded at the bar. The dinning area seemed bigger than the other two locations I've been to, McLean and North Arlington. The food menu is identical to the other locations. When we arrived, we were pretty much the only ones in the dinning area. By 7, it was mostly full with a fair amount of families. Our server, Andrew, seemed to be knowledgable about beer and was nice. We'll be back. Below are the beers we had. All were good except one. None of us cared for the Punkin and we were glad that we only got a tasting of it. There are 19 taps (if I counted correctly) with one of them having Dominion Root Beer. I think the ones we didn't have were all micro brews. They also have tons of bottles and you can stop by and pick up a six pack to go but they don't do growlers, unfortunately.
delirium nocturnum (bottle)
dale's pale ale
flying dog underdog atlantic lager
southern tier moka stout
southern tier harvest ale
weyerbacher double simcoe
blue mountain full nelson (flight)
dog fish punkin (flight)
mission imperial stout (flight)
youngs double chocolate stout (nitro, flight)
