The plain ol’ B.L.T. just doesn’t compare. Café Cubano brings a south Floridian flair to Charlottesville with its multilayered Cuban Sandwich recipe. Café Cubano owner Tony Jorge says the Cuban Sandwich—featuring a garlic-citrus “mojo” marinade—is one of his most popular lunch specials. “I try to duplicate the mojo texture that is very common in the […]
The plain ol’ B.L.T. just doesn’t compare. Café Cubano brings a south Floridian flair to Charlottesville with its multilayered Cuban Sandwich recipe. Café Cubano owner Tony Jorge says the Cuban Sandwich—featuring a garlic-citrus “mojo” marinade—is one of his most popular lunch specials. “I try to duplicate the mojo texture that is very common in the […]
In the interest of stating something not-so-interesting, I love the movies. In a little-girl-all-I-want-to-do-is-eat-popcorn-and-stare-at-that-magic-screen-for-hours kind of way. It’s basically my favorite activity. Besides eating of course. Which means that one of the most wonderful days of my year is fast approaching. That’s right, folks, Oscar night is on the way! Like Santa Claus…only it’s not […]
The last year has been a turbulent one on the W. Main Street corridor, and we blame the stormy weather there for the fact that our metaphors are all mixed up. One longtime fixture bit the dust (Blue Bird Café) while another rose from the ashes (Blue Moon Diner). In the Main Street Market a […]
There are certain moments in life when a girl has to search her heart and define the essence of what she wants to say, Sweet reasoned. She has to straighten out her message like so many Betty Grable stocking seams. La Cake speaks, of course, of Valentine’s Day. When Sweetie says she loves her friends, […]
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Ever knocked back one too many, only to find yourself whipping up your patented hangover cure the next morning—Diet Coke and coffee, plus two aspirin and several slices of cold pizza? It’s a claim we don’t make often in this space, but Alex George says that enjoying a stomach-soothing ginger cucumber salad before you imbibe […]
I’m an animal person. Well, except for spiders and snakes and sharks and eels and bugs of all kinds and other terrifying animals. Allow me to rephrase: I am a furry animal person who also has a soft spot for turtles, dolphins, manatees, seals, and other fat, but not really hairy, animals. Give me some […]
Three weeks ago while listening to Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn speak of becoming the newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame (www.baseballhalloffame.org), I wondered about the feeling that comes with that monumental phone call. My inability to grasp what getting such a call would be like reminded me of the line Brad […]
So, given much thought to Ruckersville lately? Yeah, neither have we. The place feels like a distant and, well, trafficky universe north of the airport on Route 29N. But, despite our perhaps unfair lack of attention, Ruckersville does in fact have a restaurant scene, which appears to be expanding. We caught wind of two late […]
The largest and most elaborately wrapped box under this year’s Christmas tree had my name on it. It was from my husband. And on December 25, I opened it with as much gusto as our 6-year-old. I turned positively giddy when I glimpsed what was inside: a vacuum cleaner. Not any old vacuum cleaner. It […]