2 New Restaurants Coming To Reston Station

RESTON, VA -- Matchbox and Big Buns are coming to Reston Station, developer Comstock announced this week.

Matchbox, a D.C.-based wood-fired pizza chain, and Big Buns Damn Good Burgers, a burger and beer restaurant also based in D.C., have signed leases and will open at Reston Station in late 2019 or early 2020, according to a Comstock statement on Monday.

Matchbox will occupy 6,000 square feet at 1900 Reston Metro Plaza (office tower), and Big Buns will occupy 3,000 square feet at 1908 Reston Metro Plaza (the BLVD).

The restaurants will join Founding Farmers, Sweet Leaf, and Starbucks in the Metro Plaza District.

“We are very excited about opening a matchbox and a Big Buns at Reston Station,” said Warren Thompson, president and chairman of Thompson Hospitality, in the statement. “Since joining forces with matchbox last July, our goal has been to continue growing thoughtfully throughout the region, creating restaurants where our guests want to eat, drink, share, and gather. We couldn't have asked for a better location, just one mile from our home office at the threshold of Reston’s first Metro Station, the Wiehle Reston-East Station.”

Matchbox launched in 2003 in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood, and it has since expanded to 10 local restaurants plus two more in Dallas, Texas, and Sunrise, Fla. Big Buns, which was founded in 2007, has two locations, both in Arlington (Ballston and Shirlington).