Matthew Stoss made his C-VILLE debut romanticizing hotel bars. A former reporter at the Harrisonburg Daily News- Record, he’s been a university magazine editor for the past 10 years and an occasional pencil for hire. He’s profiled an Oscar winner, an Olympic bobsledder, a National Book Award winner, a Batman artist, a Michelin-star chef, a submarine commander, and the Smithsonian secretary, among other people you might have heard of. He lives in Richmond.
The Riverside Lunch burger defies convention—and remains a local institution
The Riverside Lunch hamburger thrives in a world outside convention and science. The burgers (gasp!) are unsalted. “We don’t do anything to the meat. Nothing at all,” owner Lee Shifflett says. “When we get it, it’s ground up, and we pat ’em out. That’s it.” It’s a fine March day for culinary heresy, and Shifflett’s […]
