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Hungry for Linkage: Free Chips & Guac at California Tortilla + Lost Rhino Releases Beer Brewed From Fossilized Whale Bone Yeast + Two Alexandria Barbecue Restaurants in Court

Ready to drink beer 35 million years in the making?

By Editorial June 18, 2014 at 7:23 am

A-Town's Sunday Funday.
Sunday Funday at A-Town / Photo by Robert Merhaut

By Stefanie Gans

In honor of Avocado Month, free guacamole and chips at California Tortilla today. 

Jackson 20 starts Family-Style Courtyard Porchetta Roasts: minimum 8 guests, $38 per person and includes whole roasted porchetta, tomato salad, mac and cheese, collard greens, corn on the cob, biscuits and cornbread. Call to reserve at least one week in advance.

King Street Blues sues Red Hot & Blue over the tagline “catering with a Southern accent.” [WBJ]

Lost Rhino Brewing Company releases Bone Dusters Pale Ale tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Ashburn. The beer is brewed with wild yeast extracted from a 35-million- year-old whale fossil found in Virginia. 

“The Arlington Police Department considers A-Town to be the most troublesome establishment in Ballston,” according to a report by county staff. There’s a debate for permit renewal. [ARLnow]

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