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Top-ranked Farmbird opening Ballston restaurant

Farmbird co-founders Andrew Harris and Daniel Koslow are opening another Northeast grilled chicken restaurant at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Farmbird co-founders Andrew Harris and Daniel Koslow are opening another grilled chicken restaurant at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Popular grilled chicken restaurant Farmbird is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange, with another D.C. location coming soon as well. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Popular grilled chicken restaurant Farmbird is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange, with another D.C. location coming soon as well. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Popular grilled chicken restaurant Farmbird is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Popular grilled chicken restaurant Farmbird is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
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Farmbird co-founders Andrew Harris and Daniel Koslow are opening another Northeast grilled chicken restaurant at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Popular grilled chicken restaurant Farmbird is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange, with another D.C. location coming soon as well. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Popular grilled chicken restaurant Farmbird is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)
Farmbird co-founders Andrew Harris and Daniel Koslow are opening another Northeast grilled chicken restaurant at Ballston Exchange. (Courtesy Dave Tran/property manager, Jamestown LP)

Popular H Street, is opening a second location at Ballston Exchange in Virginia, with another D.C. location coming soon as well.

Farmbird ranked No. 3 on , with an average 5-Star rating. (Yelp recommends Farmbird’s avocado lime chicken salad).

It will open its Ballston restaurant in the spring at developer , a mixed-use redevelopment of side-by-side office high-rises that includes We The Pizza, Shake Shack, Dunkin, CAVA, El Ray Tacos, Hawkers and Phiz Coffee in Arlington County.

Farmbird is taking space formerly occupied by DIRT Restaurant, which closed in February.

Never-frozen grilled chicken plates, salads, sandwiches and roasted vegetables are on Farmbird’s chicken-centric menu.

Farmbird co-founders Andrew Harris and Daniel Koslow opened the H Street location in 2017. In 2018, .

Farmbird also plans another location on E Street, NW in Penn Quarter. It’s expected to open early next year.

Harris and Koslow, New York transplants, originally launched Farmbird as a catering business at Union Market.

Jeff Clabaugh

Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ newsroom staff in January 2016.

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