Category: Food & Wine

  • The Box for lunch? new food and space renovation

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    The Box owner Chas Webster has partnered with realto-restaranteur Stu Rifkin and Ten’s Pei Chang to renovate the space and bring new food options to the restaurant. You really should check it out, especially for lunch during the week. Check some of what Pei Chang has created: Sandwiches Kurobuta Pork Belly: 7.00 kolkuchi, mirin, sake…

  • Super-sized City Market this Saturday

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    David McNair
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    This Saturday, May 12 it won’t be your average Charlottesville City Market Day. As part of all those Tom Tom Festival events, the City Market will become an extravaganza of local food tastings, chef demonstrations and gardening information. What’s more, the inside of nearby south Street Brewery will become a veritable convention space of tastings…

  • Citizen Burger Bar coming to the DTM

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    The Hook has the scoop, as usual. 🙂 Yes, the owner of the Virginian, West Main Restaurant, Three, and the Biltmore is opening a place on the DTM in the space formerly occupied by Siips. Andy McClure says he’s shooting for a Memorial Day weekend opening. Finallly, a real pub/sports bar on the DTM! This…

  • Ian Boden now chef at Blue Light

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    What was sad news in Staunton–the closing of the much-talked-about Staunton Grocery, the farm-to-table inspired eatery in the Queen City created by chef/owner Ian Boden–has turned into good news for the DTM. “I took over as Executive Chef at Blue Light Grill on the downtown mall in Charlottesville, bringing all the great farmers, wonderful products…

  • First annual Taste of Monticello Wine Trail

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    David McNair
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    At the nTelos Wireless Pavilion on April 21 from 1pm tp 6pm. Virginia’s best wines under one roof, or tent as the case may be. Tastings, seminars, etc. Visit the event website for more information, tickets, and all that.