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COMING SOON TO LITTLE WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA
Casual comfort food in the Virginia Piedmont.
In rolling farmland near the Blue Ridge Mountains, Brian Noyes (author of the Red Truck Bakery Cookbooks) is opening Hayfields, a rural kitchen and market in Little Washington, Virginia. Meet friends and neighbors for great coffee, breakfast and lunch—and pick up dinners to go. Join us for our monthly Family Suppers.
What we’re making: Start with great coffee and hearty dishes
Breakfast
The market
Breakfast
The morning begins with our Hayfields coffee, breakfast sandwiches, sausage biscuits, muffins, healthy lighter choices, and yeast-risen waffles on the weekends.
Lunch
The market
Breakfast
Grab a sandwich and wrap from the fridge, or stay and have lunch made to order. Enjoy our soups, stews, quiche, salads, and grab dinner-to-go from our menu of entrees and seasonal specials.
Dessert
The market
The market
Pies put me on the map and in the White House, and I’m known far and wide for my seasonal fruit pies. A new love: revisiting the classic church lady cakes of the 1930s through 1950s.
The market
The market
The market
Our shelves and fridge are stocked with seasonal vegetables and produce, coffees, cookbooks, local meats, pasta and sauces, cheeses, wines, bread, crackers, chips, jams, olive oils, and more.
Our rural kitchen and market, and Sunday Family Suppers
Opening spring 2027 in Little Washington, Virginia
Welcome to Hayfields in Little Washington, Virginia—officially known as Washington, Virginia (pop. 100 or so)—a rural kitchen and market serving extraordinary coffee, breakfast and lunch, and named for the golden fields and rolled hay bales surrounding the village we call home. Twenty years ago, in the kitchen of my farmhouse just up the road, I created a nationally-acclaimed destination bakery. It launched two locations, shipped thousands of cakes nationwide each year, and inspired the rebirth and food renaissance of a forsaken Main Street. In that farmhouse, I wrote both The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook and the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook (Clarkson Potter/ Penguin Random House, 2022 and 2018). Now here’s my true passion coming to life in Little Washington, Virginia: casual comfort food and a market in a beloved village nestled against the Blue Ridge mountains, just nine miles from Shenandoah National Park.
At Hayfields, our casual counter-service café starts with excellent coffee, breakfast sandwiches and biscuits, and a daily selection of pastries. At lunch and throughout the day we'll have a tasty array of sandwiches, soups, salads, and cookies, brownies, pies and cakes, with ice cream in the freezer. Enjoy your coffee, breakfast and lunch inside or on our patio, or take it back to the office, your home, or your B&B—we’ll offer online ordering for pickup orders.
You’ll discover a thoughtfully-curated market stocked with farm-fresh locally-grown fruits and vegetables, breads, locally-raised meats, and condiments galore, including unique regional and national honeys, jam, syrups, olive oils, crackers, chips, salsas and more. Shelves are filled with a variety of locally-roasted Hayfields coffees, with last-minute dinner and entertaining items including pastas, sauces, cheeses, our own line of nuts and granola, and desserts. Our freezers and fridges feature unique ice creams, cheeses, pates, salamis, sausages, our daily quiche, and our own pot pies and entrees—frozen and ready to bake at home.
Visit us in spring 2027 at 17 Leggett Lane at Rush River Commons in Little Washington, Virginia, across from the town's new post office and just off of Route 211. We’ll be open daily except for major holidays from 7 am to 6 pm, and once a month we’ll have our Sunday Family Suppers—communal tables groaning with large platters and bowls of seasonal cooking served family-style to you and your neighbors. Lots ahead for all of us, and we’re excited to be serving you soon.
—Brian Noyes, proprietor and town resident
Follow our progress on Instagram @hayfieldslittlewashington or sign up here.
Our design salutes our regional farmers of the 1930s
Depression-era typefaces, signage, and a 1930 Model A out front
Hayfields evokes the long agricultural history of Little Washington. The design of Hayfields honors the area's Depression-era farmers and those still working the land nearby, and its walls will be lined with public-domain Work Projects Administration (WPA) photographs of Great Depression farmers in and around Rappahannock County and beyond. Its logo borrows from a favorite 1934 English woodcut of a farmer with a scythe, and mercantile and grocery typefaces of the 1930s and '40s influenced the signage. Brian Noyes, an art director and type aficionado, wanted a sign that added some personality and charm to an otherwise blank building, and evoked a rural town general store or meeting hall. The Hayfields mascot, a straw-yellow 1930 Ford Model A, will be on site, at local functions throughout the county, and in the town's annual Christmas parade.
“The general store, in our case the old Washington Cash Store, was a mainstay of the community,” says Little Washington’s Mayor Joe Whited. “On any given afternoon in the first half of the century, you might find a Model A or even an old Model T or two pulled up out front as local businessmen, farmers, schoolteachers, and homemakers stopped in to discuss local goings on while getting a bite to eat or some groceries, hardware, or a variety of other sundries for the farm or the office. It is our hope that Hayfields will pull our modern community a little closer together in a very similar way.”
Former mayor John Sullivan spent many years trying to get Brian Noyes and his bakery to come to town. “We are all thrilled that a decade later we will have Hayfields here; it’s worth the wait. And the beautiful 1930 yellow Ford Model A truck is the cherry on top of the cake.”
Read the full story by the Ford Motor Company on the Hayfields yellow 1930 Model A truck here.
More info on the Depression-era logo and farming photos is here.
Headed our way for hiking, cycling, or canoeing? Stop in
We’ll keep you fortified
Hayfields is just nine miles from Shenandoah National Park. For your trek to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Old Rag, Marys Rock*, Shenandoah National Park trails, and canoeing on the Shenandoah River, stock up on our granola, energy bars, bottled water and juices, snacks, trail mix, nuts, brownies, and cookies. Grab some sandwiches and chips for a picnic. Use our Wi-Fi to plan your journey.
Our visitors’ guide features local shops and galleries, B&Bs, wineries, area hiking trails, river info, recreational activities and farm tours. Don’t miss our travel guides and supplies at our market.
* The National Park Service omits the apostrophe for Marys Rock.
Thanks to Lancaster Mennonite School for this Shenandoah NP photo.
Hayfields is opening in Little Washington this spring 2027.
See my latest announcement about our opening here. Sign up below for updates on Hayfields ahead of our opening in mid-spring 2027. If you want to send a note or resume about a position, we’d love to hear from you. Thanks. —Brian Noyes