Restaurant week: Oh, what a filling
The new go-to: 12 restaurants you should know better We all have our favorite spots. We get the quick, easy grub here; we go there for special occasions. We’re not in […]
Parallel 38 makes big change in the kitchen and more local restaurant news
Parallel 38 makes big change in the kitchen Award-winning Mediterranean powerhouse Parallel 38 quietly underwent a major change five months ago. Owner Justin Ross let his heralded executive chef, Alfredo […]
The frozen landscape: Hot flavors in our local ice cream shop freezers
Summer can mean many things. Camping, festivals, vacations—camping at a festival while on a vacation. But for the kid in us all, summer is the season of ice cream. Whether […]
Chill Out: 24 ways to beat the heat this summer
In the air The ground’s the limit It doesn’t matter how hot it is on the ground, when you’re up in a plane going close to 100mph at several thousand […]
The Flat’s new owners promise same tasty food and more local restaurant news
The Flat’s new owners promise same tasty food What happens when one of the smallest restaurants in Charlottesville puts a small sign in its small window saying it’s closed for […]
Southern staple: Whatever their origin, fried green tomatoes have a comfy home here
If you want to watch a bunch of food geeks bicker about something of no consequence, do some quick research on fried green tomatoes. Apparently some, like food writer and […]
Forgotten Founder: Jefferson’s “adoptive son” and the legacy of slavery
Preamble When I got the assignment a couple of months ago to write about Jefferson and his protégé William Short and their dialogue about race and slavery, the nine murdered […]
Southern Crescent to open in C’ville’s hottest foodie ’hood and more local restaurant news
Belmont blowup Southern Crescent, a restaurant Lucinda Ewell and her husband Ian Day first envisioned opening out of their home in 2009, will never open on Hinton Avenue in Belmont. […]
Bombs bursting in air: Keeping your pets calm on the fourth
There are few concepts more quintessentially American than gathering friends and family for a gluttonous grill-out followed by a gratuitously deafening show of explosions in the sky. While a simulated […]
Power grape: Virginia’s unique relationship with viognier
Viognier and the Virginia wine scene have one thing in common: They both sprung from meager beginnings over the last few decades. In the late 1960s, only about 35 acres […]