Boyd on Bypass vote: Trust VDOT’s process
"This is a huge amount of transportation money that we haven’t seen in many, many years"
We say 'tomato'
For the love of ’maters Are tomatoes fruits or veggies? Do we even care when they’re ripe and ready for the eating? Their saucy side tides us over until the summer when their freshness commands our full attention. Lucky for us, these restaurants know just how to handle such juicy orbs.—Megan Headley It’s not […]
Small bites
Price check As National Hot Dog Month comes to a close, the Downtown Hotdog Company is offering another reason to celebrate: lower prices. Gourmet dogs (the kind with lots of specialty toppings like peanut butter, mac-n-cheese or pineapple) are now $3.95 (veggie dogs, too!). Custom dogs start at $2.95. Throw in a side of tater […]
Free speech is the new black
For this year’s photo contest, we called for local people, places and things. We got a lot of places, a solid pile of things—and not many people. Of the people we did get, an overwhelming portion were children, and while children have faired well in past contests (see winners for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009), […]
Small Bites
New season for Monsoon At the end of 2009, we reported that Monsoon owner Lu-Mei Chang had sort of put her E. Market Street restaurant up for sale. By “sort of,” we mean that she said she’d be happy to sell it, but that she wasn’t hammering a “For Sale” sign in the front yard quite […]
King of the grill
It’s definitely summer out there, but are you fully prepared to get your grill on?
Checking in with Alex Caton
I was checking e-mail and puttering around the house cleaning. Very exciting.
Smoke 'em out
Down in Texas, there’s a three-tier system for judging good barbeque. If the restaurant’s logo contains an animal, it’s good. If the logo shows an anthropomorphic animal (a cow in a chef’s hat, for instance), the ’cue is even better. And if you come across a restaurant wherein the logo has an animal cannibalizing itself […]
Small Bites
And everything nice Now open up 29N: Yoder’s Sugar & Spice, an ingredient and snack shop straight from Amish Country. Owner Glenn Yoder and his family relocated from Ohio to open Sugar & Spice located next to Arby’s in Forest Lakes. Look for deli meats and cheeses (and fresh sandwiches made while you wait), […]
Eat your hearts out
Eating fresh artichokes is as much about the journey as the destination, since the delicious heart is protected by tough, spine-tipped leaves (artichokes are actually thistles) and the “choke,” a clump of hairy fibers at the center. Though the heart and the thick stem below are considered the prize, artichoke aficionados use the fleshy outer leaves as a vehicle for butter or vinaigrette, scraping the thicker flesh at the bottom between the teeth and discarding the tough part.