Lyon Hall

What Lyon Hall does

Lyon Hall is a single-location French-inspired brasserie restaurant located at 3100 N. Washington Blvd in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. Operating under The Liberty Restaurant Group — which also owns The Liberty Tavern, The Falls, and Northside Social Coffee & Wine — Lyon Hall serves local diners, private event hosters, and catering clients through a multi-format offering: full dinner service, weekend brunch (Saturday and Sunday 10AM–3PM), Friday lunch, daily happy hour (Monday–Thursday 4–6PM and Friday–Sunday 3–6PM) anchored by $1.50 oysters, and structured prix fixe menus at $40–$75 per person. The culinary program is overseen by Executive Chef Miljohn Dimaano and emphasizes house-made sausages, schnitzel, freshly baked bread, handcrafted cheeses, and charcuterie prepared daily, with steamed mussel pots as a signature offering. The beverage program centers on a curated wine list emphasizing small, family-owned French wineries, a 20-tap rotating craft beer selection (Belgian, German, and local craft), and a craft cocktail program featuring the house favorite "SJF."

The business operates four primary revenue streams: dine-in service (the largest, encompassing food and beverage across all dayparts), private dining and catering (corporate luncheons, rehearsal dinners, showers, presentations, and offsite events with full bar service and customizable menus), takeout and delivery (via Toasttab and order.online), and ticketed wine and beer dinner events ($70–$185 per ticket, often featuring visiting winemakers or brewery collaborations). Private event capacity spans a mezzanine (36 seated/40 standing), lounge (40 seated/65 standing), community table (14 seated/20 standing), and full restaurant buyout. Marketing channels are organic and modest: Facebook and Instagram social, email newsletter signups, OpenTable reservations, Restaurant Week promotions, gift card sales via Gift Rocker, and holiday/seasonal event programming. Pricing is published transparently across all tiers.

The company is privately held with no public listing, no external funding rounds, and no PE/VC backing disclosed. Technology is limited to standard restaurant SaaS — OpenTable for reservations, Toasttab for takeout, order.online for delivery, Gift Rocker for gift cards, and a BentoBox-powered website — with no proprietary platform, AI/ML, or API infrastructure disclosed. Operating geographies are confined to a single Virginia location, with the Liberty Restaurant Group affiliation providing the only meaningful ecosystem-level leverage.

Name

Lyon Hall

Legal name

Lyon Hall

Website

https://lyonhallarlington.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lyon Hall is a French-inspired brasserie restaurant in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, VA, serving local diners, private event hosters, and catering clients across dine-in, brunch, happy hour, takeout, delivery, and ticketed wine and beer dinners as part of The Liberty Restaurant Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Brasserie Restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Venue & Banquet Hall Catering (THAFAIAC), Wine Bars (THAFAEAF)

Keywords

• French brasserie dining
• Craft beer program
• Private event catering
• Wine pairing dinners
• Restaurant hospitality services

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Restaurant Service: Revenue from serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and brunch to walk-in and reservation guests. Includes alcohol sales (wine, beer, cocktails) with emphasis on French wines and 20 rotating draft beers.
2. Private Dining & Catering: Revenue from hosting private events including corporate luncheons, rehearsal dinners, birthday parties, and offsite catering services.
3. Takeout & Delivery: Revenue from takeout orders placed via Toasttab and delivery orders through order.online platform.
4. Ticketed Wine & Beer Dinners: Revenue from special ticketed multi-course events featuring wine or beer pairings with prices ranging from $70-$185 per person.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Lyon Hall is a European-style brasserie restaurant in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, VA, serving French-inspired cuisine across dinner, weekend brunch, Friday lunch, and daily happy hour. The restaurant complements its food program with an extensive beverage offering including 20 rotating draft craft beers and a wine list emphasizing small, family-owned French wineries, and monetizes additional capacity through private dining events, off-premise catering, and ticketed wine and beer pairing dinners.

Product overview

Lyon Hall is a European-style brasserie restaurant offering a unified dining experience centered on French-inspired cuisine with an emphasis on small, family-owned French wineries for wine selections and diverse craft beer offerings including 20 beers on tap. The restaurant operates multiple service formats including dinner, weekend brunch, Friday lunch, and daily happy hour, complemented by signature private dining rooms and recurring themed event series featuring wine and beer dinners with collaborating wineries and breweries. Additional revenue channels include catering services, takeout and delivery operations, and holiday special dining events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dinner Service

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Liberty Restaurant GroupcoreOthersLyon Hall is owned and operated by The Liberty Restaurant Group, which also owns The Liberty Tavern, The Falls, and Northside Social Coffee & Wine. The group provides centralized management, marketing support, and shared culinary expertise across its restaurant portfolio.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Chez Billy Sud: French restaurant in the Logan Circle area of Washington, DC with a wine-driven French menu and neighborhood bistro positioning. Directly comparable French concept with similar wine emphasis and casual-yet-refined atmosphere.
• La Chaumière: Long-standing French country restaurant in Washington, DC featuring classic French cuisine and an extensive wine list in a romantic bistro setting. Comparable French bistro concept with similar cuisine and wine-driven positioning.
• Marcel's by Robert Wiedmaier: Upscale French fine-dining destination in Washington, DC offering classic French cuisine and a serious wine program. Comparable French culinary focus and prix-fixe-style menus, but at a higher price tier than Lyon Hall.
• Le Diplomate: Iconic French brasserie in Washington, DC offering a nearly identical concept to Lyon Hall — French-inspired menu with mussels, charcuterie, frites, an extensive French wine list, and all-day brasserie service in a high-volume setting. Closest comparable operating model in the DMV market.
• Bistrot Lepic: Classic French bistro in the Glover Park neighborhood of Washington, DC offering traditional French cuisine, an extensive French wine list, and intimate bistro service. Comparable neighborhood French dining concept with strong wine focus.
• Brasserie Beck: Belgian/French brasserie in Washington, DC serving moules-frites, Belgian beers, and a curated wine list with similar prix fixe and à la carte structure. Direct competitor for the same French/Belgian brasserie occasion in the DMV area.

Broad incumbents

• Balthazar Restaurant: Iconic French brasserie in NYC's SoHo serving traditional French fare, oysters, and frites in a high-volume brasserie setting. Broader-scale benchmark for the French brasserie category with similar all-day service and beverage programming.
• Pastis: Iconic French-American brasserie in NYC's Meatpacking District serving classic bistro fare with an extensive French wine list. Comparable brasserie concept at a larger urban scale, useful as an aspirational reference point.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/LyonHall
• Instagraminstagram.com/lyonhall
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lyon-hall

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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