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A casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu at 9 East Main Street, in a February 2025 directory capture and on its own site that March. The site later carried an undated closing notice; the date it went up and the last day of service are not established.
A casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu at 9 East Main Street. First seen in a Main Street directory capture in February 2025 and closed by an undated notice on the bistro's own website citing staffing and cost pressures, thanking supporters for a "two year journey".
A Berryville Main Street directory page captured 14 February 2025 listed SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main Street as a casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu. The listing's address field still carried the words "The Berryville Grille" — the sort of stale directory text that shows a page had a tenant name changed without the address field being rewritten1. The narrative on 9 East Main itself calls this out; it belongs here as the bistro's own founding-capture record.
The bistro's own website later carried an undated notice, signed by its two partners, announcing the closing of Suecat's Bistro. The notice cited difficulty finding staff, rising costs, the impossibility of turning a profit at the quality expected, and the resulting stress, and thanked supporters for "this two year journey"1. The two-year duration in the closing note is what dates the bistro's run: a two-year opening pinned by the partners themselves, ending some time after the February 2025 capture.
Two claims establish the bistro's opening record in the directory and its closing statement in its own signed note. Missing from the corpus so far: the exact opening date, the partners' names as published elsewhere, and the closing date. The bistro's own site — if archived at intervals — would contain both the opening announcement and the closing note's timestamp.
A Berryville Main Street directory page captured 14 February 2025 lists SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main Street as a casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu; the listing's address field still carried the words "The Berryville Grille".
That a second business was listed at the same address by early 2025, and what it said it served.
The leftover "Berryville Grille" in an address field is a trace of an earlier listing, not evidence of when one restaurant closed and the next opened, nor of any transfer between them. The lane reported a closing notice on the bistro's own site in September 2026; that page could not be read by this project, so no closure is claimed.
Evidence role: supports. The directory listing with its address field.
Berryville Main Street · 2025-02-14 (publication)
Locator: Listing address field and description
Relevant passageThe Berryville Grille, 9, East Main Street, Berryville Historic District, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, 22611 ... SueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The bistro's own site, captured March 2025, describing the same menu and its bar.
SueCat's Bistro · 2025-03-24 (publication)
Locator: Home page description
Relevant passageSueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu ... the ever changing variety of eight craft beers we have on tap
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: suecats-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
The bistro's own website carried an undated notice, signed by its two partners, announcing the closing of Suecat's Bistro, citing difficulty finding staff, rising costs, the impossibility of turning a profit at the quality expected, and the resulting stress, and thanking supporters for "this two year journey".
That the business announced its closing, and the reasons it gave.
The notice is undated; a Facebook post of the same announcement dated 20 August 2025 was reported to the architect from a screenshot not preserved here, so no announcement date is published. The notice does not give a final day of service, "two year journey" is not an operating span, and the Facebook post and website notice would be one announcement, not two witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The opening sentence and the thanks.
Sue Cat's Bistro (signed by its two partners)
Locator: Opening sentence and closing lines of the notice
Relevant passagewe are announcing the closing of Suecat's Bistro. ... We thank everyone who supported Suecat's through this two year journey.
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: suecats-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
A Berryville Main Street directory page captured 14 February 2025 lists SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main Street as a casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu; the listing's address field still carried the words "The Berryville Grille".
A Berryville Main Street directory page captured 14 February 2025 lists SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main Street as a casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu; the listing's address field still carried the words "The Berryville Grille".
That a second business was listed at the same address by early 2025, and what it said it served.
The leftover "Berryville Grille" in an address field is a trace of an earlier listing, not evidence of when one restaurant closed and the next opened, nor of any transfer between them. The lane reported a closing notice on the bistro's own site in September 2026; that page could not be read by this project, so no closure is claimed.
Evidence role: supports. The directory listing with its address field.
Berryville Main Street · 2025-02-14 (publication)
Locator: Listing address field and description
Relevant passageThe Berryville Grille, 9, East Main Street, Berryville Historic District, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, 22611 ... SueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The bistro's own site, captured March 2025, describing the same menu and its bar.
SueCat's Bistro · 2025-03-24 (publication)
Locator: Home page description
Relevant passageSueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu ... the ever changing variety of eight craft beers we have on tap
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: suecats-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
The bistro's own website carried an undated notice, signed by its two partners, announcing the closing of Suecat's Bistro, citing difficulty finding staff, rising costs, the impossibility of turning a profit at the quality expected, and the resulting stress, and thanking supporters for "this two year journey".
The bistro's own website carried an undated notice, signed by its two partners, announcing the closing of Suecat's Bistro, citing difficulty finding staff, rising costs, the impossibility of turning a profit at the quality expected, and the resulting stress, and thanking supporters for "this two year journey".
That the business announced its closing, and the reasons it gave.
The notice is undated; a Facebook post of the same announcement dated 20 August 2025 was reported to the architect from a screenshot not preserved here, so no announcement date is published. The notice does not give a final day of service, "two year journey" is not an operating span, and the Facebook post and website notice would be one announcement, not two witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The opening sentence and the thanks.
Sue Cat's Bistro (signed by its two partners)
Locator: Opening sentence and closing lines of the notice
Relevant passagewe are announcing the closing of Suecat's Bistro. ... We thank everyone who supported Suecat's through this two year journey.
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: suecats-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Also indexed as: Suecat's Bistro; Sue Cat's Bistro; SueCat's.
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Three restaurant names appear in the records for 9 East Main Street. Archived listings capture the address on particular days; the opening and closing dates remain unknown.
What the evidence says Three listings documented, at dated captures. Openings and closings not established.