Jennifer and Harrison Keevil, owners of Brookville Restaurant on the DTM, will be taking over Gibson’s Grocery on Hinton Avenue and open in late July, under the name Keevil & Keevil Grocery and Kitchen. What can you expect? Made-to-order subs, take-away sandwiches and salads, and a couple rotating monthly sandwich ideas dreamed up by the…
Looks like some authentic Neapolitan Pizza is coming to (well, near the DTM) in the form of a place called Lampo, the brainchild of a couple of MAS and Tavola chefs, who’ll be taking over The Farm Cville space (they’re moving to a larger location) next to Spudnuts. This is good news for pizzaphiles, as…
Looks like El Puerto on the DTM got an offer they couldn’t refuse. According to the TimesDispatch, Richmond restaurateur Hamooda Shami, owner of New York Deli, Don’t Look Back and Portrait House restaurants in Carytown, just purchased El Puerto’s at 223 West Main Street, next to the Whiskey Jar and Brookville: “Shami said he came…
Back in the late 1990s, a young graduate of Hampden-Sydney College became my office-mate at a doomed Internet-start-up called Value America. It was his first real job out of college, and he hated it. We shared an office the size of a broom closet with no windows, and created and cranked out stupid ads for…
Read more Full Circle: Blue Mountain to take over South Street
The Continental Divide occupies a sliver of a room on a nearly desolate corner of W. Main Street right before the bridge that crosses in front of the Amtrak station. It’s next to another restaurant, the exquisite L’Etoile, and close to a pawn shop, and easy to miss if not for the neon sign that…
Read more Is the Continental Divide Going to Join Christian’s Pizza in Richmond?
You’ve probably noticed that Positively 4th Street has been closed and gutted. That’s because its going to become the Red Pump Tuscan Kitchen. Looks like there are some heavy hitters behind the venture, too, namely DMB manager Coran Capshaw and P4 owner Alan Taylor, along with Pippin Hill Farm owners Lynn and Dean Andrews. No…
Read more New DTM restaurant: P4 to become Red Pump, A Tuscan Kitchen
Update 3.23.14: check out this new Happy Hour deal at The Alley Light! $2 drafts and apéritifs from 4:30 to 6:30pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Had a chance to check out The Alley Light, a new place on the DTM opened by Will Richey of Rev Soup and the Whiskey Jar. As one…
Read more New place! The Alley Light shines on Second Street
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…
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…
Moto Pho Co. opened yesterday on West Main Street, across from Zinc, and is owned by Vu Nguyen, who also owns Zinc. Well, things were so busy yesterday for Nguyen that they ran out of pho and had to close today. Here’s a write up the Hook just did: Charlottesville diners jonesing for a pho…
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