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The Vienna Inn: Defining the Bar Food Genre – CityPaper
The Young and Hungry blog visits the Vienna Inn and paraphrases Potter Stewart in describing bar food:
I’ll just have to say I know it when I see it – and I’ve seen a lot of it served at the Vienna Inn.
What is funny about the [...]

A serious food critic reviewing The Vienna Innis a fool’s errand, yet The Post’s Tom Sietsema did that for this spring’s dining guide. He gives it half a star and notes:
The vapid “world famous” chili burying the indifferent boiled hot dogs is sheer hyperbole, for instance, and though the hamburger sports a nice crust, [...]

Vienna Inn Turns 50 – The ConnectionA good article about the official dive of La Coupe Hauxer, the Vienna Inn. Lots of history is shared in this latest article.
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Vienna Inn prepares to turn 50 – The Fairfax TimesThe beloved Vienna Inn is approaching 50 years in business. This is just a fairly standard article about the history of my hometown bar, but I quibble with this statement:
The walls, saturated with the smell and color of smoke…
Hardly — at least compared to what it [...]

Police: Vienna Employee Injured in Malicious Attack – WJLAAn employee got stabbed at the Vienna Inn early this morning:
Police say they received the 911 call from the victim himself, who said he had been attacked. Police responded to the 100 block of Maple Avenue in the town of Vienna shortly before 3 a.m. Officers say [...]

VIENNA, Va. — Remember when I recently debunked The Post’s claim that the last working phone booth in the area was gone? Back in April they claimed the one in Clarendon was the last hold out, but I proved otherwise about a month and a half ago when I discovered a functional phone booth in [...]

VIENNA, Va. — Despite claims to the contrary, an opearational phone booth has been found in the D.C. metro area. This Verizon phone booth is located several paces from the Vienna Inn, 120 E. Maple Ave. (VA 123). I noticed it after a recent lunch over there. I popped inside the booth and verified there [...]

VIENNA, Va. — We had the annual La Coupe Hauxer season-end trophy presentation on Sunday at the Vienna Inn. Brad, representing the NJ Devils, won La Coupe Hauxer for the third consecutive time. He has gotten so nonchalant about the whole thing that he did not wear a Devils sweater. At least he didn’t put [...]

There are only a few hours left in National Hot Dog Month 2007, so I thought I would finally get around to comparing Washington D.C. area chili dogs. I think I alluded to this post as far back as last fall, but it was only recently that I got around to visiting all the establishments [...]

Hot Dogs With Bite – The PostThere was a Sunday Source feature on local hot dog joints this past week with commentary from the president of National Hot Dog & Sausage Council. I’ve been to to two of the featured; Hard Times Cafe and The Vienna Inn (as recently as Sunday). I haven’t been to [...]