The stand-alone Falls Church Restaurant was opened at the busy Seven Corners junction of roadways in Falls Church back in 1950. A great deal of roadside development occurred at the heavily trafficked area during the middle 20th century which included the now defunct Seven Corners Center. The unit was owned or managed by Blake Clark for its first few years, and was said to have been situated on the site of Old Fort Buffalo, which was one of a string of Civil War era forts that ran as far south as Lynchburg.

The HoJo's lasted until 1968, but the early Nims-type building lived on to see many more days. It was eventually converted into the tony Pistone's Italian Inn.