Chained up
There are restaurants, and then there are restaurants. We were at a local eatery recently, slurping down some fine, housemade soup full of ingredients from area farms, when a slightly hungover-looking fellow approached.
Living
Chained up
Restaurant gossip
There are restaurants, and then there are restaurants. We were at a local eatery recently, slurping down some fine, housemade soup full of ingredients from area farms, when a slightly hungover-looking fellow approached.
Spice of life
It\’s been a hot and sweltering summer. Yet one of the most popular dishes at D\’Ambola\’s Italian restaurant in Afton is the equally hot and spicy Alici con Bucatini Rigati.
We ate here
Is there any restaurant in Charlottesville or Albemarleâor the entire Commonwealth, for that matterâwith a weirder location than Aroma\’s?
Local music matters
With the recent completion of the massive John Paul Jones Arena, and the continuing popularity of music venues like Starr Hill and the Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville now rivals Richmond for the title of hippest city in Central Virginia.
Standby blues
Charlottesvillians, if you think you can count on anything in this crazy world of ours, think again. Tiffany’s Seafood, which has operated in the same location on Ivy Road for three decades, served its last steamed shrimpâand then shut its doorsâon August 20.
Straight from the tart
Asking to lick the spoon may be uncouth, but that’s just what you’ll want to do if you’re lucky enough to watch Jiyeon Lee, Hamiltons’ new pastry chef, prepare her delectable Chocolate Tart with Almond Crust.
Ranking cats and dogs
Online networking sites have clearly taken over the Internet. First there was Myspace and Facebook, which quickly became all the rage among status-conscious teens and bored college kids. Next, working professionals started to jump on the bandwagon with sites like LinkedIn.com. In the middle of this growing Internet friendship frenzy, I guess it was just […]
Easy greenery
As all things “sustainable” become ever more common, self-identified green consumers begin to shed the hairy hippie image that’s long been associated with eco-consciousness. At least that’s the hope of the chipper website called Ideal Bite. The site delivers green-living information, but just as importantly, it delivers the feeling that you, the visitor, are young […]
Just go away
Restaurantarama is no different than anyone else. Frankly, at this time of year we are about as enthusiastic about working as we would be about lying naked on a mound of maggoty meat. The late-summer doldrums have set in with a vengeance. We can barely even type these words, so great is our ennui. So […]