Vince Lombardi stared down his Green Bay Packers, decades ago, declaring, "Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success." Chanting defense: […]
Vince Lombardi stared down his Green Bay Packers, decades ago, declaring, "Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success." Chanting defense: […]
For someone with French culinary school chops and experience running and owning restaurants all over the world—from Cape Town to Montreal and California to Hawaii—Hassan Kaisoum pretty much created a recipe for disaster at his Aroma’s Café & Catering in the Fontaine Research Park. Here were his ingredients for cooking up a Moroccan/Mediterranean dining den […]
We were happy to take a recommendation from the good people who serve the restaurant at the Clifton Inn—its menu, after all, is almost overwhelming in its wonderfulness. This is how we came to a single order of foie gras and duck confit agnolotti served in brown butter jus and dusted with cracklins. A lovely […]
The best gifts are always those that you didn’t ask for. For example, that set of pots and pans is great, but really it’s every time you wear that cashmere sweater that you feel like you’re opening up a present all over again. I would say that the website The Edge is similar to this […]
Three Sundays ago while scraping my cramped and out-of-shape body off Washington Park after a morning of flag football, a diverse mix of men, women, adults and college students filed on to take our place. There was no football. There were no flags. There was only a Frisbee. No, it wasn’t a massive game of […]
Feedback experienced déjà vu when we first walked into Jack Jouett Middle School the other week.
As both the source and the sounding board for all things food in this town, Restaurantarama works tirelessly on your behalf to decipher inside scoop from mere scuttlebutt. Typically, we save you, the reader, from the untruths and exaggerations that little birds whisper to us, but this week, we thought we’d let you in on […]
The classics don’t get enough credit: Something like the old-time chicken salad recipe, which millions of people eat every day, has held up for over a hundred years. Andreas Gaynor at Kiki learned how to whip this one up by watching his grandmother, peeping over her range top when he was a hungry, lanky kid. […]
Unless you are completely Spanish-illiterate, you already know that Aqui es Mexico means "Here is Mexico." Or maybe that should be Mexico is here, since we finally have real south-of-border food in Charlottesville. Our meal began with homemade chips and two types of salsa, one red hot, the other sublimely green. We followed that with […]