Sweetwater Tavern Awards

Sweetwater Tavern Restaurant Review:

Despite the faux Western décor mimicking a frontier barroom, this restaurant serves anything but rustic, frontier foods: We love the big salads, but most people probably favor the very big entrées starring pork chops, filet mignon, rib-eye steaks and assorted seafood dishes, served with the kitchen’s luscious basil redskin mashed potatoes or other sides of your choice. The cook also whips up a treacherously delicious white chocolate cheesecake that puts other desserts to shame. One of the notable draws of this restaurant is its microbrews prepared on-site in the vast copper tanks. These provide some of the freshest, liveliest beers around---and consequently, one of the liveliest bar scenes. Also located at 142505 Sweetwater Lane, Centreville, VA, 703-449-1100.