COMMUNAL
DINING
DONE RIGHT
Upside On Moore is more than just an address; it is home to a vibrant culinary community and food ecosystem.
We are launching and growing culinary entrepreneurs in a dynamic space where they can feed off each other—here the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts, and together we will all fly.
But we know how important it is to stay grounded. So we work hard to make sure our concepts rest on solid financial footing–that is, that they are solidly “on Moore.”
We love the Roots and Wings principle: that a successful enterprise needs a solid foundation of knowledge and a sense that they are from somewhere, and at the same time they need autonomy to evolve and space to grow.
This has been a guiding principle of Mothersauce Partners since its inception–we are the root, or the “mother sauce.” Our brands use our base to then spread their wings–upwards and forward.
MANAGEMENT
PARTNER
we ARE dedicated
partners to our
community
You can’t truly be a local business without supporting the local community, and we are dedicated to Arlington and all of its residents:
For every three meals sold, we make a donation to the Arlington Food Assistance Center.
We partner with Kitchen of Purpose, to create a pipeline for employment and assist in small business incubation.
Unsold food will be picked up a company called Goodr and repurposed to be given away within the DC metro area.
OUR ART
UPSIDE MURAL (WILSON BOULEVARD)
Andrea Limauro’s “UPSIDE” mural is a playful and fantastical reinterpretation of the geographic, cultural and historic relationship between the northern Virginia communities of Arlington and Rosslyn and northwest Washington, DC. As an artist and a locally practicing city planner, Andrea likes to reimagine local communities and their landscapes in whimsical ways that exaggerate natural features and the reorganize the built environment to highlight monuments, architectural landmarks, infrastructure and stories that are important to local culture. The “UPSIDE” mural, just like the foodhall that it borrows its name from, flows together, through abstract patterns and buildings, different and, at times, disparate stories and flavors that create the eclectic local-to-global environment that defines the DMV region.
More of Andrea’s art can be found at Andrea Limauro and @andrealimauro.
DREAM BIG MURAL
Rosslyn City Center brings to life AREP's core promise to go beyond the expected with a 67-foot by 50-foot mural created in collaboration with local artists' No Kings Collective. The mural, titled Dream Big, is designed to inspire and encourage viewers to explore the freedom of possibility.
Dream Big mixes curves typical of soft clouds with vectored shapes to connect something utterly familiar with dream-like abstraction. This mix aims to shift perceptions of art and nature and reality and dream states, leaving the viewer to see both “nature as art” and “art as nature.”
Brandon Hill, No Kings Collective co-founder is the artist behind the Dream Big mural. More of Brandon’s work can be found at All Day Projects and @alldaymurals1.
THREE SISTERS MURAL
The mural at the top of our escalator entrance pays homage to one of the most iconic–and yet to some, unknown–landmarks of this area: The Three Sisters Islands. Situated just North of the Key Bridge, and a landmark since Colonial times, the islands are shrouded in legend. The most notable is from the Algonquian tradition which holds that three young sisters were lost crossing the river one night, and the islands sprung up the following morning.
In honoring that tradition, and that of the Native American culture that once dominated the area, we also are displaying three native crops in the artwork–corn, squash and beans. These crops are suited to grow together not apart, eschewing modern monoculture. We see our space in the same way–our vendors are stronger surrounded by each other and their respective diversity, yielding a crop that our customers will no doubt enjoy more.
Ashley Jaye Williams is the creator and artist for the mural. More of Ashley’s art can be found at Ashley Jaye Williams and @ashleyjayewilliams.