New developments The local restaurant pool just keeps getting bigger, foodies. Welcome, Burger Oasis. The Woodbrook Shopping Center spot serves, as you’d expect, burgers and fries, plus tasty desserts like strawberry shortcake. Across the street, The Brick Oven in Rio Hill Shopping Center recently reopened its doors under new ownership and down the road in […]
UVA exerts growing influence on U.S. Women’s National Team program
What were you doing when we called? I was with a friend at this thrift store over in Waynesboro. A pretty decent thrift store, with a lot of old keyboards and T-shirts—not as picked over as the Charlottesville versions. You always gotta look. When he’s not making album covers and posters for other bands, […]
It’s easy to go glassy-eyed from awe and confusion when nose-to-nose with Feast!’s cheese case, which is well-endowed with 75 choices. But since everyone who works there is passionate and knowledgeable about their product, rest assured that you’ll walk away with the best cheese your money can buy. Feast! Cheese Manager Ehren Siebert recommends using […]
We’re no strangers to good barbeque. In fact, we dedicated an entire issue of C-VILLE to finding the best in town. Unfortunately, we overlooked a contender: Two J’s Smokehouse in Palmyra, from Joshua Ball, offers hickory- and fruitwood-smoked meats and homecooked sides (“everything but the French fries,” Ball says). Ball knows good ’cue. Before opening […]
"This is a huge amount of transportation money that we haven’t seen in many, many years"
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]