Restaurants

Ashburn’s new Silver Diner announces official opening date

The new restaurant is on Loudoun County Parkway across the street from One Loudoun.

According to two representatives for the new Silver Diner location in Ashburn, the restaurant will open on Wednesday, June 30.  This despite a large banner in front of the store announcing June 23 as the opening date. We’re told the decision to push the grand opening back a week was made at a meeting Friday afternoon. It’s a grand opening that has been a long time coming.

Way back in August 2018, The Burn reported that Silver Diner was exploring a possible location in Ashburn. That possibility turned into reality and work started in 2019. Then came the coronavirus pandemic — and a long halt in construction. The half-built building sat idle. Finally, work resumed late last year and The Burn reported back in April that Silver Diner was aiming for a June opening. Now it appears the last day of the month — June 30 — is the big day.

The Ashburn Silver Diner is coming to the Commonwealth Center, a retail and residential project on the east side of Loudoun County Parkway at Russell Branch Parkway. That’s across the street from One Loudoun, where the soon-to-open restaurant sits next to a CVS right at the main intersection.

This will be the first Loudoun County location for Silver Diner, a Rockville, Maryland-based chain with 19 locations in Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey. The nearest one to Loudoun County thus far has been in Reston.