Lightfoot Restaurant

Lightfoot Restaurant is a restaurant in Leesburg, VA, serving seasonal American cuisine with southern and ethnic accents. Executive Chef Ingrid Gustavson leads the kitchen alongside her sister and co-owner General Manager Carrie Gustavson Whitmer, who together founded the restaurant in 1999. The menu features fixtures such as Fried Green Tomatoes, Blue Ridge Spinach Salad, and the Atomic Crab Cake, with daily lunch and dinner specials built around the freshest seasonal ingredients. An award-winning wine list complements the food. Sunday brunch is served from 11:30 am to 3 pm, and happy hour runs Wednesday through Friday and Sunday from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm in the bar area. The restaurant is open for takeout, curbside, delivery, and dine-in Wednesday through Sunday starting at 11:30 am, and is closed Monday and Tuesday. Sample brunch and all-day menus are available online, along with takeout and delivery ordering. The restaurant occupies a Romanesque revival-style building on King Street that previously served as the People's Bank for a half-century before being completely renovated, with a large addition at the back housing the Sheridan Room event space. Bank vault doors, original woodwork, and ceilings remain visible throughout the dining room, joined by hand-painted silk Venetian chandeliers and vintage Parisian posters. The building was named in honor of Francis Lightfoot Lee, the Virginia signer of the Declaration of Independence. A small on-site shop called Ladies Waiting at Lightfoot serves soups, sandwiches, salads, ice cream, and house-made sweets during weekday lunch hours and special events downtown. Lightfoot is also a member of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce, and the kitchen earned Loudoun's Favorites #1 Favorite Chef honors in 2019, 2021, and 2022 from LoudounNow. The restaurant sits at 11 North King Street, across from the Loudoun County Courthouse, with a Civil War Statue just steps away. East and West Market Street run nearby, and Craft Leesburg arts center is within walking distance. The dining room inside a former bank vault on the King Street courthouse square, with a chef honored three times as Loudoun's Favorite, gives Lightfoot a singular place among Leesburg restaurants.