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Pizza delivery — and more — arrives in Rappahannock

by | May 20, 2026

Zaibi Asghar, owner of Xpress Mart & Pizza on Route 211 in Warrenton, has been delivering food and convenience store items to Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier residents since last fall — bringing delivery service to an area that had never experienced it. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
Xpress Mart & Pizza in Warrenton delivers food and convenience store orders to Rappahannock County. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
Xpress Mart & Pizza in Warrenton delivers food and convenience store orders to Rappahannock County. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)

Ordering delivery from a pizza shop is pretty standard practice — unless you live in Rappahannock County, where the convenience has never existed.

Now it does.

Xpress Mart & Pizza, a convenience store and restaurant on Route 211 near Leeds Manor Road in Warrenton, has been delivering food — and just about anything in stock — to Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier residents since last fall.

“I want to help you guys [in Rappahannock],” said owner Zaibi Asghar. “No one delivered in this area … people have come here and they said they’ve lived here 30, 40 years, and they’ve not gotten delivery — never, ever — and now they’re happy.”

Xpress Mart & Pizza in Warrenton delivers food and convenience store orders to Rappahannock County. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)

Asghar, originally from Pakistan and now living in Bristow with his wife and children, bought the store last year after he came across a listing on Facebook advertising the space — a convenience store with a full kitchen — and he decided to take a chance.

He said he had never run a convenience store or restaurant before, but it had always been a dream of his to own a business.

“I was also interested in working in a kitchen, too,” he said. “I love cooking.”

He’s proud, he added, that all of the food they serve — from specialty pizzas and strombolis to gyros, wings, sandwiches and salads — is made to order. “All fresh,” he said. Pizza prices start around $8, and he said he is planning to add pasta dishes to the menu soon.

The standard delivery radius is seven to eight miles from the store, but Asghar said they will deliver further out — as far as the Town of Washington — if the order is big enough. Asghar also has a fully-stocked convenience store, and said he will deliver any of those items as well, like ice, beer and wine, snacks and firewood.

Xpress Mart & Pizza in Warrenton delivers food and convenience store orders to Rappahannock County. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)

“If we have a big order, around 70 or 80 bucks, we’ll deliver more miles … but people are not restricted to only buying food. Whatever we have at the store, I’ll deliver,” he said. “A case of water, firewood, candy, an ice bag and two pizzas, that’s already 70, 80 bucks … we have all kinds of stuff.”

Jess Settle, who lives in Washington, said she was introduced to the store when she went in to sell ads for Discover Fauquier, a direct mail news and advertising publication, after noticing the space was under new ownership. She said she was delighted to find that the food was good quality. And Settle is not alone — the store has close to 120 five-star reviews across Google and Facebook.

“The pizza is actually really good … and it’s super convenient for me, because I work in Warrenton and I have four kids, so when I’m driving home and I don’t have anything made for dinner, I’ll just grab a pizza real quick,” Settle said.

“He’s a really nice person, too,” she added about Asghar. “You can tell too that he’s not just there to make money, he goes out of his way for his customers.”

Delivery or pick-up orders can be placed by calling 540-690-1619 or ordering at xpresspizzamart.com 

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  • Ireland Hayes

    Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner.
    Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.
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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.