Readers’ Choice: Best Spot for a Girls' Night Out in Fairfax County
Tell us where you go when you leave the men at home
Update: You nominated the best places for a girls night out across Fairfax County, and now, three have moved on to the voting round of Patch's Readers' Choice 2012.
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Original: Inexpensive martinis, dancing, good food, great friends – what is it that makes a great girls’ night out?
Patch wants to know where you go when you need a ladies’ night. It might be a bar or restaurant, a club or a spa.
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Amy
4:18 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Jackson's
T Ailshire
9:20 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sharpshooters Virginia, 8194-M Terminal Rd., Lorton
Mike
10:03 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Please post more, my wife has these pampered chef things at my house. I need to encourage her to go out!
Beth
4:58 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
Ha! Favorite post of the day!
SHE CAN SHOOT
10:26 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
Mike,
Tell her that there is an all women chapter in Northern VA that goes out and shoots together at the range as well as meeting for other social meetups. She can visit us at shecanshoot.com (FREE membership, no experience required).
Amyx3
11:23 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Cue Club!
Drew
4:18 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
Paradise Springs Winery!
Vanessa Weedon
10:00 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
Sharpshooters in Lorton. Great time with the ladies; no need for designated drive; and lots of stress relief!
Susan Larson
11:01 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
@Vanessa This sounds interesting ... and fun!
SHE CAN SHOOT
10:46 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
Agreed! I get a chance to improve my firearms skills as well as still go out for dinner afterwards if we want. It's a great way to bond with my girlfriends, I am in a safe place, and the only "shots" I am doing is firing down range....
M Hunter
10:01 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
Shooting with the girls. Sharpshooters or Blue Ridge Arsenal.
sigmabear
12:00 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
There is nothing like lead therapy with the ladies of She Can Shoot! Sharpshooters is nice, but Blue Ridge Arsenal is much closer to me.
SHE CAN SHOOT
11:14 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
Hanging with my ladies with SHE CAN SHOOT: The Shooting Divas of DMV at Sharpshooters or Blue Ridge Arsenal. It's great shooting with other women!
Kat Whalen
12:52 am on Saturday, July 7, 2012
Shooting with the ladies of She Can Shoot at either SharpShooters in Lorton VA or Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly VA. Both places are great places for bonding and stress relief.
Cadence Champ
10:32 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
SharpShooters with the ladies of She Can Shoot: The Shooting Divas! Also makes for a great date night!
Wien
10:53 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
Paradise Springs Winery? Oh god no. That place is the most overrated and undervalued place I can imagine for a night out, a day out, or an hour out.
Whereas the Paradise Springs Winery offerings were decent in taste, they missed the marks in all the other ways that make the vineyard/winery experience. The wine itself had a few good tastes, esp the Chardonnay. The real knock on the wines is the price is pretty inflated compared to other Virginia wines; the wine was at the shoulder of its peers in the whites, but overpriced unfortunately. The first thing that hits you is the price. $7 for 8 tastes is a price usually saved for reserve offerings, not your standard fare. So at $14 for the two of us, with none of that credited towards a bottle purchase, this winery was already higher priced than almost every other vineyard we've visited in Virginia, Napa, Sonoma, or Austria/Germany. It's clear their intention is to capture the "wine tourism" dollars from folks less serious about buying wine.
The $18 meat and cheese platter was served on a paper plate with a plastic knife, and consisted of a half roll of crackers, packaged brie, and a package of turkey pepperoni. If you're going to offer food at that price, you could at least pull it out of the wrapper so your guests don't realize it came from Giant or Restaurant Depot. I guess that's why they let you bring your own food.
Wien
11:00 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
Note this review was based on my visit in July 2011 - based on Yelp comments, things may be more expensive now.