Restaurantarama might spend a lot of time tagging along with restaurateurs, but that doesn’t mean we actually know what it takes to open an eatery. Of the health inspections, liquor license applications, flatware choices and menu-related agonizing, we have only secondhand knowledge. Joanna Yoakam, though, has been there, and she wants to spare someone else […]
Restaurantarama might spend a lot of time tagging along with restaurateurs, but that doesn’t mean we actually know what it takes to open an eatery. Of the health inspections, liquor license applications, flatware choices and menu-related agonizing, we have only secondhand knowledge. Joanna Yoakam, though, has been there, and she wants to spare someone else […]
You want more madness? Yes, it’s that time of the year to ink in the brackets and make up the always unbelievable excuse for why you get sick on the same Thursday every year. A noteworthy bald-headed commentator for ESPN would say, “It’s the Madness, Baby!” This year the field of 65 welcomes back the […]
I am a lucky girl. Not because my mother looks 10 years younger than she is or because I was blessed with reasonably straight teeth. Rather, because for the past week I have been making my way through events at the HBO Comedy Festival and thus have had the privilege of sharing the company of […]
Having lived in West Philly, I’m fairly accustomed to having Ethiopian food at least once a week. Hand-feeding myself spicy goodness is apparently my thing, plus I get kind of drunk from the super-high iron content of the injera bread. When I lived in Richmond, I visited Nile restaurant so often that I now send […]
That would be the trip we just took over to Carlton Avenue, where we scouted out the leading edge of the outer-Belmont dining scene. There, we were part of the very first lunch
As a young cupcake, Sweet rarely looked to storybooks to fill her imagination. She was more likely to find inspiration in The Bangles than Sleeping Beauty. Somehow the bridge between Sweetling’s reality and Susanna Hoff’s seemed easier to travel than the space between Sweetie and Aurora. Maybe it was the fact that guitar lessons were […]
With construction drawing to a close on the $11 million City Transportation Center, the Downtown Mall will be a quiet place for a few weeks. However, the sounds of silence will come to a close on April 19 with the first concert of the Charlottesville Pavilion’s 2007 season. The first acts of the 2007 Budweiser […]
Last Friday, the day after the death of Boston Celtics great Dennis Johnson, there was much remembering of a man that the legend Larry Bird called the greatest teammate he ever had. Along with his passing, the questions arose why Johnson had never been placed into the Hall of Fame and why had he continued […]
Ask any one of my close friends or family members to name my biggest neurosis, and they will undoubtedly come up with one of two answers: airplanes or diseases. I can’t get on an airplane without major sedation, and about once a month I am convinced I’m dying of a tragic illness. For example, once […]
The guy’s nothing if not ambitious. As we reported several weeks ago, Alejandro Montiel, already piloting a successful ship in Crozet (La Cocina del Sol, that is), took over the former Rococo’s space on Commonwealth Avenue last year. And is he turning it into a restaurant? No, he’s turning it into two restaurants. Restaurantarama recently […]