Northern Virginia’s IHOP Alternative

OCTOBER 16,2017

Northern Virginia’s IHOP Alternative

CASUAL RESTAURANT SERVING YOU 24/7 SINCE THE 1960s

By Christine Viray, Staff Writer

If you are unfamiliar with IHOP, it’s a 24/7 restaurant where people can have breakfast for dinner. While it is well known for having an affordable selection of breakfast, lunch, and dinner options, customers can have a similar but new experience at the Amphora Diner Deluxe and Amphora Restaurant.

With locations in Vienna and Herndon, Amphora is a family-run group founded by the Cholakis and Bilidas families, who opened the Amphora Restaurant in Vienna in the late 1960s. Throughout the years, the company has grown and opened up another location in Herndon called the Amphora Diner Deluxe. Both locations offer catering options and have their own bakeries with varied selections.

Other than being open 24/7, what’s remarkable about the Amphora locations is that they’re open during the holidays. With Amphora’s large selection of food, customers don’t have to worry about having limited options.

Unlike other restaurants, Amphora’s Herndon bakery offers birthday celebration options that allow customers to decorate their own cakes with professional pastry chefs.

Both Amphora locations are essentially the same in terms of what they have to offer, but the Amphora Diner Deluxe has a more unique and flashy exterior that stands out from its surroundings, especially at night. However, there’s nothing wrong with the Amphora Restaurant’s more traditional exterior and both locations essentially look similar on the inside.

Both Amphora restaurants offer an expansive menu with more than 350 options to choose from. Customers can pick from a variety of pastas, burgers, salads, and Belgian waffles. In terms of the breakfast options, customers are able to make their dish a “deluxe”, which means that their order can include their choice of ham, sizzling bacon, or sausage with two eggs in any style that they prefer to have them cooked.

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Photo courtesy of Michelle Gardener
Published by: Fourth Estate

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