Maple Ave Restaurant

Our Restaurant Week offer is simply better! $55 4-course dinner through September 6. Make a reservation: https://mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations/

While many restaurants are offering three courses, we’re giving you four! The full Maple Ave experience. Not a Restaurant Week version of it.

We don’t create a cheaper, stripped-down version of our menu for Restaurant Week. You get our regular, full prix fixe menu. The same food, the same ingredients, the same care we put into every dinner we serve, at even better value.

And there’s something else that makes Maple Ave different. It isn’t a restaurant run by a large team or a corporate group. It’s just Justė and Ricardo.

We cook. We welcome you. We source the ingredients, plan the menus, pour the w**e, solve the problems, and celebrate the good nights.

With just a handful of tables, we get to know our guests. We notice what you’re enjoying. We have conversations. We remember the people who come back, and enjoy making your evening a memorable one.
You are dining in a restaurant where the people taking care of you are the same people who put the food on the plate.
That’s the kind of restaurant we wanted to create. And after all these years, we still love being here!

Ricardo & Justė
Maple Ave Restaurant
Modern European Bistro, est. 2009

Official Restaurant Week runs August 24–30, but we’re stretching it out!
Join us Wednesday, August 19 through Sunday, September 6 for our 4-course prix-fixe dinner for $55 — usually $59.
More time to come eat, less pressure to squeeze into one week! Not to mention, what a great value - not 3, but 4 courses for $55.
We’re a true nano restaurant — just 26 seats, a tiny kitchen, and a menu that changes with whatever catches our attention and makes us want to cook. Make a reservation! ❤️ (link in comments)

And then we’re taking a little adventure of our own…

We’ll be closed September 7–17 while we head to Lithuania to visit family and celebrate Chef’s birthday. 🇱🇹
We’ll be back and cooking for you again Friday, September 18.
Hope to see you soon!

Justė & Ricardo
Maple Ave Restaurant

We did a thing today—what a morning. ❤️

We had the privilege of joining Fox 5 DC Zip Trip as they celebrated the Town of Vienna, and we came away feeling immensely grateful. This reminded us that we live and work in an extraordinary community that we're fortunate to call home.

Owning a small restaurant often means a lot of work happens quietly behind the scenes. Moments like today give us the chance to look around and appreciate the people who make it all worthwhile: our guests, our neighbors, our fellow small business owners, and everyone who chooses to support local.

Vienna is filled with worthwile shops, cafés, artists, makers, and entrepreneurs who pour their hearts into what they do every single day. Being part of that tapestry is something we never take for granted.

Thank you to the Fox 5 DC, Visit Fairfax, and Town of Vienna, VA - Government people for including us, making us feel welcome, and also to everyone who came out early this morning, waved, cheered, smiled, and shared encouragement.

Every reservation, every kind word, and every person who chooses to spend a few moments of their lives at our little restaurant makes it possible for us to keep evolving and creating happiness for ourselves and others. Thank you for accepting us into your lives.

If you missed our live segment, you can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZEThUDLOvA&t=6352s

It's too hot to cook. Good thing we’re already in the kitchen!

The Fourth is almost here, and with this forecast, your grill may end up cooking you instead of dinner.

Suggestion:

We're open Saturday, July 4th for brunch dine-in until 4pm. Ricardo will have the drinks cold. I'll have food ready and in the kitchen - we can handle the heat!

If you’re chilling at home, takeout will also be available until 4pm, and you can order from both our a la carte brunch and dinner menus.

A few Maple staples that have become Fourth of July traditions:

Our signature crème fraîche wings (with quite a fan club).

Lithuanian empanadas, Chef Justė's personal favorite.

Fried green tomatoes, a crispy summer classic with mildly spicy pimento cheese.

We'd love to see you this week! Glance at our menus and reserve your table on our website www.mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations, or visit www.ordermapleave.com to place your takeout order. Advance pre-orders much appreciated!

Our 10 little tables filled up quickly for Vienna Restaurant Week, so we decided to extend the offer through Saturday, March 14th.

For the extension we’re offering our full 4-course dinner for $55 (normally $59). Everything is cooked with care and prepared and served by just two people — as always.

If you’ve been wanting to visit, this is a wonderful time to come by.

View the menu and reserve:
https://mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations/

Also, Easter Brunch reservations are now open.
We offer a 3-course brunch for $45, and it tends to sell out each year, so booking early is recommended.

Pic by Melissa Maillett Photography

Vienna Restaurant Week officially wraps up this Sunday, March 8. Since our 10 tables fill up fast, we’ve decided to keep the Restaurant Week deal running through Saturday, March 14.

It’s $55 for a four (!)-course dinner, and we’d love to have you!

Catch Ricardo and Chef Justė on Fox 5 Good Day DC showcasing our signature dishes:
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/fmc-iv40hmsxodo8eagp

See menu and make a reservation:
http://www.mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations

Maple Ave Restaurant Ricardo Teves, General Manager of Maple Ave Restaurant joins us with Chef Justė Židelytė and Nicole Toulouse Economic Development Director, Town of Vienna on Good Day DC.

Super Bowl wings!
This Sunday, we’re offering our signature crème fraîche wings for game-day pickup.

Our wings are made with free-range chicken, tossed in a creamy crème fraîche sauce with savory umami notes from Korean chili paste, fish sauce, oyster sauce and balanced with bright citrus. Rich, tangy, and very addictive. Sold by the pound, 6-7 wings per #.

Sunday pick-up times:
10:45 AM – 3:00 PM
5:15 PM – 7:30 PM

Quantities are limited, and pre-orders really help us prepare everything fresh and on time—so we truly appreciate it.

Pre-order: https://ordermapleave.com

Snow had other plans for all of us this past week!
We’ve officially dug ourselves out, and are open again today. The parking lot is ready, the kitchen is warm, and we’re very happy to be back in our groove.
For those whose plans were disrupted, we’re extending our Restaurant Week dinner through Sunday, February 8th.
It’s $55 for a four-course dinner — not three — from our full regular menu. Glance at the menu and make a reservation: https://mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations/
As always, it’s just the two of us cooking and hosting the evening: a husband-and-wife team, 10 tables, and a lot of attention on your dinner and experience.
Photo by Melissa Maillett Photography

Restaurant Week can mean a lot of things these days. For us, it’s a simple invitation to come eat the way we always cook—just a little more generously.

During Winter Restaurant Week, we’re offering our full regular menu as a $55 four(!)-course dinner (instead of three). Same dishes, same care, same ingredients—just more of the experience, at a price that feels good to share.
This Restaurant Week menu runs through February 1st.
Take a look at our menu and make a reservation: https://mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations/

Every plate is still cooked and served by just the two of us. Ricardo up front, Justė in the kitchen. No shortcuts, no scaled-down menu—just a cozy table, thoughtful food, and the kind of evening we’d want to have ourselves.

If you’ve been meaning to visit, or if it’s been a while, we’d love to cook for you. 🤍

It’s been… a year.
And by “a year,” we mean:
• our building AC broke down
• our walk-in fridge broke down
• our fire-suppression hood broke down
(All things you absolutely cannot run a restaurant without.)
Add in government shutdown, slow months, a few health issues, and now another family emergency — and, well… 2025 really is a doozy to keep up with.
Right now, Ricardo is in Argentina to visit his father for one last time and say goodbye in the final days, and I — Chef Justė — am here holding down the fort and catching up on everything we’ve been juggling.
Because of all this, we’re doing TAKEOUT ONLY through December 5th and will reopen for dine-in on December 6th for dinner.

Please support our tiny, very human restaurant during the holiday season, and especially now:

✨Order Takeout:
www.ordermapleave.com
✨Reserve a table for dine-in (starting Dec 6):
https://mapleaverestaurant.com/reservations/
🎉Book your private holiday events:
https://mapleaverestaurant.com/private-events/
🎁Buy a gift card — a small-business lifeline:
https://mapleaverestaurant.com/gift-cards/
Perfect for the foodie, the tired parent, the coworker you actually like, or anyone who deserves a night off. Or buy one for yourself and redeem when needed! Your support helps us keep going through this rollercoaster of a year.

Thank you — truly — for sticking with us through every twist, turn, and unexpected repair bill.

With gratitude, resilience, humor and definitely too much coffee,

Ricardo & Chef Justė
Maple Ave Restaurant

P.S. The pic is after we shoved the hood fan into our hatchback after driving to Bedford, PA. A 6 hour road trip!