Founding Farmers Blog

The NFL season is back in action, and this is the very first season the newly named Washington Commanders will take the field. There are hundreds of ways to enjoy football season across the DMV, but how many of them include the Commanders Head Coach Ron Rivera live and in-person?  

We are open on Thanksgiving! We have 3 ways you can celebrate Thanksgiving Day with our scratch-made holiday food & drink. Or join us anytime during the holiday weekend.  1. Thanksgiving in Our Restaurants  Please join us at any of our Founding Farmers restaurants on Thursday, November 24 for our special Thanksgiving prix fixe dinner menu.

Our decadent menu of delicious scratch-made food is the perfect way to enjoy Thanksgiving in the comfort of your home all weekend long. Our special Heat & Eat Thanksgiving Weekend at Home menu is started in our kitchens, ready to be finished at your convenience in yours, with our detailed cooking and reheating instructions. 

Searching for the perfect way to break the fast and close out the High Holidays? Look no further than our specially curated and thoughtfully sourced menus. Five of our locations have Yom Kippur menus to break the fast at home or in our restaurants: MoCo’s Founding Farmers, Founding Farmers Tysons, Founding Farmers Reston Station, Farmers & Distillers, and Founding Farmers King of Prussia.

Looking for restaurant-prepared food to celebrate Rosh Hashanah? Most of our restaurants have menus to enjoy around our tables and at home: MoCo’s Founding Farmers – Founding Farmers Tysons – Founding Farmers Reston Station – Farmers & Distillers – Founding Farmers King of Prussia.

Summer Restaurant Week is back and better than ever.  This summer, we will be celebrating Metropolitan Washington Summer Restaurant Week beginning Monday, August 15th through Sunday, August 21st, 2022. For lunch and dinner, our DMV-area guests can put together their perfect three-course meal with all their favorite plates from Founding Farmers DC, MoCo’s Founding Farmers, Founding Farmers Tysons, Founding Farmers Reston Station, Farmers Fishers Bakers, and Farmers & Distillers.*  With us, Summer Restaurant Week is available for lunch & dinner two ways: at our restaurants and at home.  

If the answer is no, then you need to get to any of our restaurants ASAP and give it a try. Our cheesecake is great. In fact, we think our cheesecake is the absolute greatest.

We have big news for all our restaurant guests! We are excited to be launching a new company, Founding Farmers Co. Catering & Events. We have had growing interest in providing our scratch-made, thoughtfully sourced food and drink beyond the walls of our restaurants.

Celebrate National Hot Dog Day — July 20, 2022 — at any of our DMV Founding Farmers locations and enjoy what we believe to be the very best hots dogs in town.

This year, we are celebrating summer with the berry best: Maine wild blueberries. We are excited about our new partnership with Merrill Blueberry Farms, who have been harvesting these small and mighty berries for four generations along the fertile coast of Maine.