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.
A name that kept turning up
A Berryville Grille appears among the town's restaurants in a Main Street portal captured in February 2012. A county tourism page captured in 2015 puts it at 9 East Main Street, with a varied menu of lunches and dinners, wine and beer. Tourism and Main Street pages captured in 2021 and 2022 still list it there. That is the whole of it: a name in four captures, with the address recorded in three.
Source note: Berryville Main Street, 2012, and three more
Archived directory pages list a restaurant named Berryville Grille at 9 East Main Street, Berryville: by name in a Main Street portal captured 24 February 2012, and with the address in tourism and Main Street listings captured 7 March 2015, 16 June 2021 and 11 December 2022.
What the source supports
That a business of this name was listed at this address across a span of captures from 2012 to 2022.
Uncertainty
Each capture attests one day. Nothing here gives an opening date, a closing date or continuous operation between captures; the 2012 page shows the name without an address.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The 2012 portal names the Grille among member restaurants.
Shop, Berryville Main Street portal (captured 24 February 2012)
Berryville Main Street · 2012-02-24 (publication)
Locator: Restaurants list on the captured Shop page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille
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: supports. The 2015 tourism page gives the address.
Berryville Dining, Clarke County Tourism website (captured 7 March 2015)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2015-03-07 (publication)
Locator: Berryville Grille entry on the captured Berryville Dining page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 E. Main St. ... a varied menu that includes both dinners and lunches at more than reasonable prices ... Wine and beer available with meals.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The 2021 tourism page gives the address.
Eat, Clarke County Virginia Tourism website (captured 16 June 2021)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2021-06-16 (publication)
Locator: Eat list, first entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The 2022 Main Street page gives the address.
Dine, Berryville Main Street website (captured 11 December 2022)
Berryville Main Street · 2022-12-11 (publication)
Locator: Dine list, Berryville Grille entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
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.
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Source note: Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism, 2015
A county tourism page captured in March 2015 described the Berryville Grille as offering a varied menu of lunches and dinners, with wine and beer available with meals.
What the source supports
What one promotional listing said the restaurant offered.
Uncertainty
Promotional copy. Its opinion that the place was among the town's "most popular" is not carried here; no menu was inspected.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The listing's description.
Berryville Dining, Clarke County Tourism website (captured 7 March 2015)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2015-03-07 (publication)
Locator: Berryville Grille entry on the captured Berryville Dining page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 E. Main St. ... a varied menu that includes both dinners and lunches at more than reasonable prices ... Wine and beer available with meals.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. 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 southern menu, and a leftover name
By February 2025 the same directory lists SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main, "a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu"; its own site that March said the same and counted eight craft beers on tap. The listing's address field still read "The Berryville Grille, 9, East Main Street", a trace the software kept from an earlier record. It is a clue that one occupant followed another, not a date for either. Later the bistro's own site carried a notice announcing its closing, signed by its partners, citing staff it could not find, costs it could not cover and the strain of trying, and thanking supporters for "this two year journey". The notice is undated here and names no last day.
Source note: Berryville Main Street, 2025, and one more
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".
What the source supports
That a second business was listed at the same address by early 2025, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The directory listing with its address field.
SueCat's Bistro, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 14 February 2025)
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 website, home page (captured 24 March 2025)
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.
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Source note: Sue Cat's Bistro (signed by its two partners)
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".
What the source supports
That the business announced its closing, and the reasons it gave.
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The opening sentence and the thanks.
Sue Cat's Bistro closing notice (official website text, preserved from a search-index record)
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
The 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
Tex-Mex at the same address
A directory page captured in April 2026, and the county's tourism list as read in September 2026, give the address to Aztec City Mexican Restaurant, "classic Tex-Mex favorites and authentic dishes inspired by" Mexican cooking. Listed as of those days; nothing more is claimed.
Source note: Berryville Main Street, 2026, and one more
A Main Street directory page captured 15 April 2026 and the county tourism listing read on 10 September 2026 list Aztec City Mexican Restaurant at 9 East Main Street; the directory describes Tex-Mex favourites and dishes inspired by Mexican cooking.
What the source supports
That a third business was listed at the address in 2026, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
Listed-as-of statements. No opening date, ownership or relationship to the earlier occupants is established, and "current" means the day the page was read.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The 2026 directory listing.
Aztec City Mexican Restaurant, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 15 April 2026)
Berryville Main Street · 2026-04-15 (publication)
Locator: Listing address and description
Relevant passage9 E Main Street, Berryville, VA ... a diverse menu that features both classic Tex-Mex favorites and authentic dishes inspired by the rich culinary heritage of Mexico
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: supports. The live tourism listing on 10 September 2026.
Eat & Drink, Experience Clarke County website (read 10 September 2026)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2026-09-10 (publication)
Locator: Eat & Drink list
Relevant passageAztec City Mexican Restaurant 9 E Main Street Berryville 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. 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
What a capture date is
None of these sources says when a restaurant opened or closed. A capture records what a page showed on one day. Three names at one address across fourteen years is a real piece of downtown history, and its edges are unknown. This site leaves them that way.
About the evidenceWhat the evidence says
Three listings documented, at dated captures. Openings and closings not established.
Four captures between 2012 and 2022 list the Berryville Grille at 9 East Main Street; a February 2025 capture lists SueCat's Bistro there; an April 2026 capture and the live 2026 listing give the address to Aztec City. Each capture is good evidence for its own day. None of them dates an opening or a closing, and the Grille's name surviving in a later address field is a trace, not a transfer.
- That it was so✓ Documented
Archived directory pages list a restaurant named Berryville Grille at 9 East Main Street, Berryville: by name in a Main Street portal captured 24 February 2012, and with the address in tourism and Main Street listings captured 7 March 2015, 16 June 2021 and 11 December 2022.
See the evidence
✓ DocumentedThat it was soArchived directory pages list a restaurant named Berryville Grille at 9 East Main Street, Berryville: by name in a Main Street portal captured 24 February 2012, and with the address in tourism and Main Street listings captured 7 March 2015, 16 June 2021 and 11 December 2022.
What the source supports
That a business of this name was listed at this address across a span of captures from 2012 to 2022.
Uncertainty
Each capture attests one day. Nothing here gives an opening date, a closing date or continuous operation between captures; the 2012 page shows the name without an address.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2012 portal names the Grille among member restaurants.
Shop, Berryville Main Street portal (captured 24 February 2012)
Berryville Main Street · 2012-02-24 (publication)
Locator: Restaurants list on the captured Shop page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille
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.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2015 tourism page gives the address.
Berryville Dining, Clarke County Tourism website (captured 7 March 2015)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2015-03-07 (publication)
Locator: Berryville Grille entry on the captured Berryville Dining page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 E. Main St. ... a varied menu that includes both dinners and lunches at more than reasonable prices ... Wine and beer available with meals.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2021 tourism page gives the address.
Eat, Clarke County Virginia Tourism website (captured 16 June 2021)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2021-06-16 (publication)
Locator: Eat list, first entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2022 Main Street page gives the address.
Dine, Berryville Main Street website (captured 11 December 2022)
Berryville Main Street · 2022-12-11 (publication)
Locator: Dine list, Berryville Grille entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
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.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
- That it was so✓ Documented
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".
See the evidence
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA 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".
What the source supports
That a second business was listed at the same address by early 2025, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The directory listing with its address field.
SueCat's Bistro, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 14 February 2025)
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.
Contemporary document Evidence role: contextualizes. The bistro's own site, captured March 2025, describing the same menu and its bar.
SueCat's Bistro website, home page (captured 24 March 2025)
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
- That it was so✓ Documented
A Main Street directory page captured 15 April 2026 and the county tourism listing read on 10 September 2026 list Aztec City Mexican Restaurant at 9 East Main Street; the directory describes Tex-Mex favourites and dishes inspired by Mexican cooking.
See the evidence
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA Main Street directory page captured 15 April 2026 and the county tourism listing read on 10 September 2026 list Aztec City Mexican Restaurant at 9 East Main Street; the directory describes Tex-Mex favourites and dishes inspired by Mexican cooking.
What the source supports
That a third business was listed at the address in 2026, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
Listed-as-of statements. No opening date, ownership or relationship to the earlier occupants is established, and "current" means the day the page was read.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2026 directory listing.
Aztec City Mexican Restaurant, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 15 April 2026)
Berryville Main Street · 2026-04-15 (publication)
Locator: Listing address and description
Relevant passage9 E Main Street, Berryville, VA ... a diverse menu that features both classic Tex-Mex favorites and authentic dishes inspired by the rich culinary heritage of Mexico
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.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The live tourism listing on 10 September 2026.
Eat & Drink, Experience Clarke County website (read 10 September 2026)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2026-09-10 (publication)
Locator: Eat & Drink list
Relevant passageAztec City Mexican Restaurant 9 E Main Street Berryville 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. 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
Each statement above is assessed on its own evidence. Nothing here is averaged, scored or voted on, and a well-attributed account can be documented while what it describes stays unconfirmed.
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