What's cookin'?
What’s cookin’? Can these chefs whip up something delicious from a seasonal local farm basket? You betcha. Advertisement: Great Plates! LOCAL RESTAURANTS SHARE THEIR MENU HIGHLIGHTS HERE
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What's cookin'?
Can these chefs whip up something delicious from a seasonal local farm basket? You betcha.
What’s cookin’? Can these chefs whip up something delicious from a seasonal local farm basket? You betcha. Advertisement: Great Plates! LOCAL RESTAURANTS SHARE THEIR MENU HIGHLIGHTS HERE
The hard sell
Twenty years after Governor Gerald Baliles declared October to be Virginia Wine Month, the industry seems to be drowning in marketing.
Music man
We at C-VILLE like to give our little birds that have flown props when those little birds land, as they sometimes do, on wire worth noting. Former C-VILLE music writer and online editor John Ruscher, also the founder of Nailgun Media, flew the coop after spending over more than a year writing nerdy-but-still-cool reviews, columns, […]
A growing partnership
The trouble with using local foodstuffs in the restaurant world is that availability is unpredictable and expensive.
We Ate Here
We feel like we ate our way through Europe in sandwich form. Layered generously with fresh avocado, Cafe Europa’s Black Sea felt decadent, but avoided over-richness with the bite of black olives, thin slices of red onion, tomato, sprouts, and a bright lemon dressing. Everything was both fresh and refreshing at this Corner hideaway, including […]
The man from Champagne
Making sparkling wine is a complex and difficult process, more so in many ways than making still wine.
Fighting words
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll say right now that while I am not in the habit of plugging my friends’ websites (if my memory serves me correctly, in all the years I’ve been writing these 300 words per week, I have never done so), I’m going to break with tradition here and make […]
Sexual healthy
After serving the Charlottesville community for almost 10 years, I will be closing my office later this fall.
October 08: Urban Spacious
Fifty feet behind the home of Will Kerner and Catherine Dee are busy railroad tracks. Across the tracks lies an industrial area. In the other three directions, the property is surrounded by a city neighborhood. Nonetheless, it’s an incredibly calming place. The house, which Kerner and Dee moved into when it was finished just over […]