Truckin’ along: Charlottesville’s food trucks lead an evolution in catering
Tracking down all the food trucks and carts trundling about Charlottesville is no easy task. Go ahead and try with your handy dandy Google. You’ll turn up a lot more […]
Long-time Greek chef Paul Boukourakis comes out of retirement to open new breakfast and lunch joint and other local restaurant news
Opah! What’s the difference between cooking for royalty and cooking for the masses? According to Paul Boukourakis, not much. In addition to opening restaurants on three different continents, the 77-year-old […]
French twist: Petit Pois combines French classics with contemporary fare
In Charlottesville, a meal at Petit Pois is as close as it gets to eating in France. My dinner companion told me so. And, he should know. Jose de Brito, […]
Mark Weber leaves Firefly as his legacy and more local restaurant news
‘Wild ideas’ Faced with a terminal illness, most people might hunker down for months of treatment and forgo future plans. Not Mark Weber. Last summer, in the middle of an […]
LIVING To Do: Barn & Brew
Chef Ben Thompson fires up his favorite wintertime dishes with Rock Barn and Devils Backbone Brewing Company. Learn how to pair smoked sausage and pork with craft beer and try […]
Plenty of good beer: Making sense of Charlottesville’s growing brew festival circuit
Life was so simple when there was only one beer festival. Top of the Hops descended on the Pavilion in the fall, you put on your pretzel necklace and tried […]
Whiskey Jar team gears up for downtown spin-off and more local restaurant news
Sweet and savory We’re about to get a new pie shop on the Downtown Mall. And in true Charlottesville fashion, for the academic-turned-pastry-chef behind The Pie Chest, it was a […]
Feast week: Our guide to a can’t-miss culinary staycation
Set aside for a moment that eating out three times a week is perhaps excessively gluttonous, and come with me on a quick trip. It’ll be like a vacation, but […]
Down home: Red Hub brings back classic, no-frills Southern fare
Ryan Hubbard and Mark Marshall aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel. The two guys behind Red Hub Food Co., a catering service that recently opened a lunch counter at its […]
Long anticipated Lampo pizzeria opens in Belmont, Duck Donuts migrates north and more local restaurant news.
Hello, Lampo For a pizza place that turns out pies in a matter of minutes, we sure had to wait a long time for Lampo, the real deal Neapolitan joint […]