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Phuong Nguyen, who has worked as a server at the restaurant for the last six years, skillfully servers her table’s entrees in one trip from the kitchen to the dining room. She immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1993 and lives in McLean. Other servers at the restaurant have a shared experience of immigrated from abroad: Sandhaya “Sandy” Abeysinghe immigrated from Sri Lanka in 1986 and Litsa Photious immigrated from Greece in 1982.

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McLean’s ‘Meeting Place’

Gov. Terry McAuliffe praises McLean Family Restaurant for ‘the best food in all of America.’

A family-owned restaurant in the Salona Village Shopping Center on Chain Bridge Road has been serving McLean for the last 47 years and has become a meeting place for the area’s high-profile elected officials, including Virginia’s governor.

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