Category: Food & Wine
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Bengali-Indian cooking class at The Haven
Please join the Haven Cooking Series Fundraiser with Bengali-Indian cooking class to benefit programs for reducing homelessness. February 8th (Saturday) 11am to 1pm 112 West Market St, Charlottesville, VA 22901 (Market St Entrance) Learn to COOK & EAT Bengali-Indian VEGAN Cuisine with Mahabuba & Tonu We will prepare these VEGAN dishes: 1) Niramish (Bengali Vegetable…
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Public Fish & Oyster to open on West Main
As some of you might know, the DTM’s neighbor One Meatball Place at 513 West Main Street has closed, giving way to a place called Public Fish & Oyster, an East Coast seafood and raw bar place. Now they’ve announced they will be opening on February 4. Former Camino chef Matt Turner is in the…
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Feast on the DTM: Charlottesville Restaurant Week is here
It might just as well be called The DTM Restaurant Week, as more than half of the participating restaurants in Charlottesville Restaurant Week, a concept invented by the former staff of The Hook, and later co-opted by Cville Weekly, are on or very near the Downtown Mall. It all begins tomorrow, January 26, and runs…
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A taste of a Taste of India
For years I wrote The Dish restaurant column for The Hook, but this week marks the first time I’ve written about a restaurant for C-Ville Weekly, and it just happens to be a relatively new arrival on the DTM — Dave McNair “August 26, 2013 was a momentous day for Taste of India’s manager Kamal…
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Sweet development: book store makes way for DTM chocolate shop
Paintings and Prose will be moving out of its location at 406 East Main Street this week, making way for My Chocolate Shoppe, which offers hand-crafted specialty chocolates in 29 different flavor combinations. Painting and Prose bookstore and gallery is, ah, the brain child of Virginia NeuroCare Inc., a brain injury services program funded by…
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Holy Cow menu…check it out!
Dr. Ho’s Holy Cow on 2nd Street NW is up and running, and here’s the menu: Banger: ‘n-a-Bun (Breadworks Sunflower Wheat) $4 Meal Deal: Sandwich + one topping, chips, and a spritzer $7 Gluten Free Jackalope BBQ (made with Jack Fruit): ‘n-a-Bun (corn flower) $5 Meal Deal: Sandwich + one topping. chips, and a spritzer…
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Dr. Ho coming to the DTM
No, he’s not bringing pizza. Long-time local restauranteur Gerry “Dr. Ho” Danner, who brought us the original Blue Moon Dinner and Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie in North Garden, has downsized his keen imagination, focusing it on the tiny space on 2nd Street NW formerly occupied by Nicola’s Chicken Kabobs, and back in the day, the…
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77 places to eat on the DTM. What does it mean?
The Hook–Seventeen years ago, when Bill Hamilton and his wife, Kate, opened Hamilton’s at First & Main on the Downtown Mall, it was a big risk. “At that time, a seasoned local restauranteur advised us that he would not drop a dime on a Downtown Mall lease,” says Hamilton. Today, of course, you’re lucky to…
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30 cent burgers at Henry’s Restaurant
Henry’s on the DTM is celebrating 30 years in business this week, and on Monday, November 5 you’re in for a treat that’ll send you back in time: from 11am to 2pm, 30 cent cheeseburgers, 30 cent fries and 30 cent fountain drinks, coffee or tea. Some great specials the rest of the week, too.…
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X Lounge X’d for Glass Haus Kitchen
The Hook–Last Saturday night, October 13, was the last dance at the X Lounge, which brought fine dining and clubbing downtown to the Glass Building in 2006. Indeed, it wasn’t uncommon to experience a big city-type urban vibe in the place, helped along by one of downtown’s most edgy and elegantly designed interiors, plus a…
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