Friday, August 3, 2012
Shervin Aminifar will open the "Village Cafe Express," a new food truck that will operate throughout Northern Virginia.
The Village Cafe, a long-standing Mom-and-Pop-style restaurant in the Centreville area, plans to expand its services soon with a new food truck that will hit the road in Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The new truck, dubbed the "Village Cafe Express," is the pet project of Shervin Aminifar, the son of Parviz and Rosemary Aminifar, who opened the Village Cafe in 1996. Shervin has been working with his dad in the restaurant since he was 15, and felt that the time was right to strike out on his own. "My parents are behind me as far as support goes, but this is all me," Shervin said. "I’ve been working with my dad for such a long time, and he’s been taking care of me. I’ve gotten older now and hopefully I can give back to my…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Indian Ocean specializes in Goan seafood and North Indian cuisine.
A new Indian restaurant recently opened at 5639 Stone Road in the Village Center shopping plaza. Indian Ocean specializes in Goan seafood and North Indian cuisine. The restaurant owner said he is emphasizing nutritional food in a traditional Indian style, and purchases many ingredients locally. “The style of cooking we have is Ayurvedic. The ingrediants are local, farmers’ market vegetables," said owner Raj Kapoor. "We use mostly organic vegetables and we go three times a week to the farmers’ market." Kapoor relocated Indian Ocean to its current space in Centreville at the end of June. Previously, there were two restaurants open: one in Fairfax and one in Washington, D.C. Kapoor, a Hindu Indian who grew up in Afghanistan, said he wanted …
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Good Food & a Touch of Family
Nestled in a tree-lined shopping plaza, the Village Café is run by an Iranian emigrant who gave up a career as an industrial engineer to cook gyros and chicken souvlaki on a short-order grill. Parviz Aminifar came to Chicago as a college student, right before the revolution toppled the shah in 1979. Aminifar- everybody calls him "Mo"- was bitten by the restaurant bug while he waited on tables to earn some spare change after college classes. "I don't know what it was," Aminifar said. "I just enjoyed serving people. I liked to make them happy." After getting his engineering degree from Roosevelt University, Aminifar was in a bit of a dilemma. He couldn't return home to Iran as he had planned; the political unrest made his future there …
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Teresa Thompson Selove
4:43 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
I hope everyone in the area will try it out. The food is delicious and the service excellent. It is also good to support our local restaurants and businesses. more ›