Lorton Restaurants

American Bar-B-Que & Catering Shuts Down

The silver lining is that the catering is still an option.

A Lorton staple has shut its doors, but you'll still be able to occasionally taste the pulled pork from American Bar-B-Que & Catering. On Saturday, the lease for the restaurant at 7230 Lockport Place expired, and a "For Rent" sign went up in the window.  Going...Going...Gone As the final days of March trickled away, Dave and Diane Saville finished stripping down a restaurant that took 40 years to build. "It's been very difficult to see this place over the last few days," Dave told Patch. "People have been amazing, to show their gratitude for what we've done since 1972. And even though we stopped serving food at the end of February, customers are still coming by and pulling on the doors. I'm getting calls from people asking, 'Where are we …

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