Restaurants

A pizzeria opened its doors in the downtown Berry Burk building last week, and VCU-area diners have a new food option in a Japanese fast-casual restaurant.

A local tobacco company’s new cafe venture launched late last month on Broad Street in VCU territory, and just up the street local Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees with big expansion plans quickly got their shop up and running.

The newest venture by local restaurateur Chris Tsui opens today on North Boulevard, and ice cream chain Gelati Celesti announced yesterday that it will be moving in nearby.

Some of Richmond’s biggest restaurant players got new locations cooking, new developments and up-and-coming neighborhoods landed eateries, and Scott’s Addition boomed with booze in 2015. Read this year’s restaurant roundup and plan your dining calendar for the new year.

The former CFO of an aerospace firm is trying his hand at the local restaurant business and taking over a long-standing restaurant and bar, where he plans to make some upgrades.

Feeling cramped in less than 400 square feet in its Lakeside home, a busy breakfast restaurant is moving into a roomier space in the Fan.

A pizza chain with another location in the works in Chesterfield has signed on to a new development west of Short Pump that has recently landed a string of restaurant tenants.

With the Virginia Lottery taking over its space, a downtown lunch restaurant is closing its doors next week. But its catering business will live on under the ownership of a former local competitor.

A country western bar and restaurant — line dancing and cowboy hat-wearing waitresses included — is hoping to fill a hole in the Midlothian market.

A short-lived music-themed coffee shop franchise near VCU has called it quits, leaving a Carytown tobacco company to set up its own cafe and hookah concept in the space.