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 […]

We Ate Here

Here at C-VILLE, we know how to party—which we did with gusto when we handed out our 2006 Best Of awards at the X Lounge one sultry Thursday night. Beautiful people in a beautiful space is always a recipe for fun, or at least intrigue, and the X provided some eye-popping hors d’oeuvres to round […]

He\’s number one

This week, Restaurantarama is here to pass on a message. If you’re one of the C-VILLE readers who voted Ted Norris “Best Bartender” in our recent Best Of C-VILLE contest, Norris would like to thank you. “It makes me feel really good,” he says.      Aww!     If you are a Norris devotee, you probably […]

We ate here

We stopped by Ming Dynasty and ordered up the “Vege” lo mein lunch special, at least partly because we always get a kick out of that variation on the spelling of “veggie.” When it came out (in approximately four and a half seconds), we spirited it off to our secret hideaway and tucked into the […]

Campaign website wars

Last week, Fifth District Republican Congressman Virgil Goode (the incumbent) and his Democratic challenger, Al Weed, appeared together at Charlottesville’s Senior Center (see pg. 17). To mark this 2006 campaign milestone, Hit This Site decided to take a look at just how in-tune the two candidates are with the district’s technology-savvy constituents. And so we […]

Fish out of water

While the Main Street Market does have many virtues (including a fine array of purplish hues on its exterior and a preponderance of top-quality foods), it is not exactly known for affordability. I mean, you could drop $5 on a tomato in that place, easy. So we were pleasantly surprised to get a look at […]