Getting comfortable in Reston

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The local Great American Restaurants chain has been turning out fun casual food for 20 years in Northern Virginia, from Carlyle in Shirlington to Coastal Flats in Fairfax and McLean, and a handful of other solid performers.

But for its latest concept, the restaurant group turned inward to honor one of its own: Bill Jackson, its longtime corporate chef, who died nearly a year ago.

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