Small-town hospitality sets Brasserie Royale apart from big-city bistros

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At Brasserie Royale successful Sterling, Virginia, the husband-wife squad down Local Provisions serves thoughtful French nutrient successful a welcoming vicinity spot.

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Steak frites comes with superb thick-cut gallic fries and a pat of herby food astatine Brasserie Royale. (Photos by Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post)

The country of Cranston and Southbank streets successful Sterling, Virginia, is not the astir evident determination for a polished caller vicinity restaurant. The entranceway to Brasserie Royale, which opened successful the Cascades Marketplace improvement successful July, looks onto the backside of a Home Depot, and its neighbors see Starbucks, a smoothie concatenation and a pizzeria whose extracurricular speakers present crooning Italian ballads to passersby. This isn’t a vicinity truthful overmuch arsenic a perfectly beauteous buying center.