Chez Andree Closes Its Doors After 50 Years

Chez Andrée, a longtime neighborhood restaurant, quietly closed recently, after the owner, son of the original owners, decided it was time to sell the building and the land, he told Alexandrianews.org.

On the restaurant’s Facebook page was a message posted Oct. 15 saying simply: “Come Celebrate with us one last time! Next week will be Chez Andree’s last.”

The news was met with dismay from longtime customers. “And where am I supposed to go for my chicken livers now?” Jimmy wrote on the restaurant’s Facebook page. “Great restaurant. Great family. Great memories. Very best to the staff and to all those who feel a sense of loss with the restaurant’s closing!” David wrote.

Located at 10 E. Glebe Road in Alexandria, at E. Glebe Road and Commonwealth Avenue, the restaurant served up a menu with country French twist, thanks to the origins of Andrée G. Lecureux, who hailed from France and helmed the kitchen when she and her husband Stanley opened in 1965.

Son and owner Steve Lecureux said he was looking for a buyer after his mother passed away last year and after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Some of the signature dishes included steak au poivre, a New York strip sautéed with fresh cracked peppercorns and shallots, tournedos Henri IV, broiled filet mignon wrapped in bacon, crowned with an artichoke bottom, and topped off with béarnaise sauce. Other specialties included duck l’orange, rack of lamb, and chicken livers.

Longtime customers of the restaurant included the late Vola Lawson and President Gerald Ford, when he lived in Alexandria, Lecureux told Alexandrianews.org.

Lecureux did not say who has purchased the building and land.

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