Est. 1829 · At the foot of the Blue Ridge
Dinner worth the drive. Rooms worth staying for.
A dining room people plan their year around, a wine list among the best in the country, and ten rooms upstairs. Forty minutes from Dulles, in the Blue Ridge foothills.
Three reasons people come.
Most guests arrive for one and leave having booked another.
Dine
Named No. 5 of Northern Virginia's Top 10 Best Restaurants of 2026. Chef Carlos Leon's seasonal menu is built on the kitchen garden outside the window.
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Celebrate
An 1891 reception hall with its stained glass and barrel ceiling intact, with the lawn, the fire pit and the Blue Ridge just outside the door.
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Stay
Ten rooms, no two alike. Working fireplaces, brass beds, private porches, and a breakfast that is reason enough on its own.
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Where you sit matters
Six rooms. Pick your evening.
The blue room is hung floor to ceiling with Belle Epoque posters, Cappiello and Sandeman and Martini & Rossi, with a fire going under the mantel. The Tap Room is black wood and oxblood leather. The library has one round table, built-in shelves, and a hearth.
Tell us which you want when you book. Most people have a favorite within two visits.
Tour the rooms
The bar and the cellar
Your name on the wall.
Those brass plates along the paneling are wine lockers, each one belonging to a regular. Some have been here longer than the current kitchen. Ask about one and we will tell you whose it is.
Wine Spectator has recognized the cellar for years running. Virginia producers sit beside Burgundy and the Rhone, and the by-the-glass list changes with the menu.
Wine dinners run through the fall and winter, and most of them fill from our list before they are announced publicly.
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The building
Nearly two hundred years of history.
The Ashby has been standing since 1829, and the stair treads have the paint to prove it. Nothing here has been smoothed over into a hotel.
That is the point. The floors creak, the fireplaces work, and the view from the window has not changed much since the house was built.
Weddings
The lawn, the church, and nobody else all weekend.
Ceremony under the old tree with the Blue Ridge behind you, dinner in an 1891 reception hall, and ten rooms upstairs so your people stay put. One wedding at a time, always.
Up to 120 seated under the stained glass. The kitchen that earned the restaurant its reputation is the same kitchen cooking your dinner.
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Meetings & retreats
Take the whole place.
Forty minutes from Dulles and an hour and a quarter from Washington, with six distinct spaces, ten guest rooms, and a kitchen that will ruin every catered lunch your team has ever had.
Buy out the inn and the grounds are yours: the church for the all-hands, the lawn and fire pit for the evening, and nobody driving home.
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| The Reception Hall · 1891 | Up to 120 |
| The Terrace · April to October | Up to 60 |
| The Porch | Up to 20 |
| Upper Dining Room | Up to 14 |
| The Tap Room | Up to 14 |
Getting here
Closer than you think.
We are in the village of Paris, population under sixty, at the foot of the Blue Ridge and in the middle of Virginia wine country. Most of our guests tell us they had no idea we were here. Most of them come back.
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Awards and affiliations
Part of L & L Hospitality Group
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