There are moments in life when you need fancy food served on rectangular plates by servers who describe everything as “artisanal,” and then there are moments when you need a mountain of fries drowning in chili and cheese at a dive bar that doesn’t apologize for anything.
The Vienna Inn in Vienna, Virginia, specializes exclusively in the latter, and thank goodness for that.
This place has been serving up comfort food and cold beer since the Eisenhower era was giving way to the Kennedy years, and it’s still going strong because it understands a fundamental truth about human nature.
Sometimes what we really want is something delicious, unpretentious, and served in a place where nobody cares if you’re wearing sweatpants or a suit…